City acts quickly to ease parking woes

The residents of Park Avenue in Cape Girardeau discovered last week they could get results at city hall.

Residents along the stretch of Park Avenue closest to last year's New Madrid Street improvements could barely get up and down their little block because of the abundance of Southeast Missouri State University students using the street for free parking.

To their chagrin, the residents discovered the one small no-parking sign left on their street after New Madrid Street improvements was unenforceable because there was no city ordinance to back it up.

But after reading a petition from residents, city manager Michael Miller signed an emergency regulation barring anyone from parking on the west side of Park Avenue. The city council likely will make the regulation permanent within the required 90 days.

It's good to see city government work so quickly to the benefit of the affected residents.