The Powell City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM in Council Chambers at 47 Hall Street. The meeting covered a designated outdoor refreshment area (DORA) expansion, appointment of a new Tree Board, a supplemental appropriations ordinance, and updates from committees and the city manager. All resolutions and ordinances were adopted unanimously.
I will call the May 19th Planning 26 Council meeting to order. Thank you. Lee Carlson? Here. Counts. Here. Carlos Crawford. Tyler Herman. Here. Heather Carr. Here. David Lester. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The next item on our agenda is citizen participation. If you are here to speak on an item not otherwise on the agenda, please approach the podium, state your first and last name, your address, and you will have three minutes to speak. I guess I'm the only one. Okay. Good evening. I'm Martin Pickens of 160 Glenn Abbey Court and Bartholomew Run subdivision. This has been going on for oh I'd say the last couple years or so. We've had traffic blocking our the entrance and exit of our neighborhood of Powell Road and Bartholomew Run, which is in violation of Section 4511.712, the Ohio Revised Code. Therefore, I proposed, and I got very good reception from Chief here and from Elaine and uh Charles Duke's about placing a do not block intersection signal to one at Powell Road and Valley Run Drive on the uh north side of Powell Road, just to the east of that intersection, so the westbound traffic will have full view of it. And now they assure me that uh, and I'm impressed at the time frame of this, certainly. Um response and uh the time frame that they've given have been impressive, and so I wish to give those folks a commendation here and uh hopefully with the cough coming up, we can uh do something to help traffic along Powell Road during those days. Uh maybe put a couple lights on flash or put officers at um intersections if necessary to direct traffic um longs that doesn't compromise anybody's safety, of course. Um that's all I have, folks. Uh thank you for your attention. Thank you. Charles, did you want to address that? Or Chief? Sure. Thanks, Madam Mayor, Council. That's an update. Um, this came across my desk yesterday. Um we had other tasks going on. We had to do some research. We found a sign that said do not block the intersection. It's not to our standards with the black backey, but we're gonna plant that one. But in order to plant that, you have to do a oops ticket, which takes 48 hours, okay, before you can put anything in the ground. And with all the fiber going on in the city, they're behind us of backlog. So it might be more than 48 hours, but we're on top of it. Um we made the accommodation to fill the requests. So that's where we're at. Charles. Thank you, Charles. Thank you. Anyone else for a public comment?