The City of Hollister is hosting an informational meeting on coming changes to striping and parking in downtown Hollister.
The meeting is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Veterans Memorial Building, 649 San Benito St. There, residents can learn about planned changes for San Benito Street to slow traffic and increase pedestrian safety.
As part of a collaboration between the city and Hollister Downtown Association, engineering and business officials have been examining details to execute in the so-called downtown traffic corridor study, approved by the city council in the spring. A big component of the plan is addressing the parking layout in the downtown core from Third to South streets.
Officials are progressing on plans to reduce the downtown’s four lanes to two while installing turn pockets at intersections that don’t already have them. The involved parties had considered other ideas such as a concept—introduced by paid consultant TJKM in the corridor study—which would involve diagonally backing vehicles into parking spots. But HDA economic restructuring committee members and city officials ended up going with a plan to continue parallel parking on San Benito Street, engineering official David Rubcic has said.
Along with parking from Third to South streets, talks revolving around the plan also have included ideas such as including curb bulbouts and sharrows, or markers reminders motorists to share lanes with bicyclists.
