City of Ann Arbor - File #: 13-0921

• File #: 13-0921
• Version: 2
• Name: 8/8/13 - Road Closures for UM Football Games 2013
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/8/2013
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 8/8/2013
• Final action: 8/8/2013
• Enactment date: 8/8/2013
• Enactment #: R-13-259
• Title: Resolution to Approve Street Closures for University of Michigan Football Games for the 2013 Season

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/8/2013	1	City Council
8/8/2013	1	City Council	Amended	Pass
8/8/2013	2	City Council	Amended	Pass
8/8/2013	2	City Council	Approved as Amended	Pass

Title

Resolution to Approve Street Closures for University of Michigan Football Games for the 2013 Season

Memorandum

The attached resolution is to approve a request from the University of Michigan to close Main Street between Stadium and Pauline.  Closure for north bound lanes will be from three hours before the game until the game ends.  Closure for south bound lanes will be from one hour before the game until the game ends.  The games for 2013 season are on the following dates:

·      8/31/13

·      9/7/13

·      9/14/13

·      10/5/13

·      10/19/13

·      11/9/13

·      11/30/13

The applicant, the University of Michigan, in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Ann Arbor Police and other local law enforcements officials, is seeking to enhance security at Michigan Stadium and for the residents who live in nearby neighborhoods by creating a vehicle-free zone around the Michigan Stadium during Saturday UM Football games.  The vehicle-free zone would be created by closing E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, closing the westbound right-turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and closing S. Main Street to both local and through traffic from Stadium Boulevard to Pauline.  These closures would be effective three hours before a game to the end of the game, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before a game to the end of the game.  Vehicle access from the neighborhood streets onto the closed area of S. Main Street would be either prohibited or restricted at police-controlled access points depending on the street to accommodate people needing ingress or egress to properties fronting S. Main Street that have no side-street access.  The closed portion of these streets will remain available for pedestrian use and emergency vehicle response to the area.

Staff

Prepared by:   Debra Williams, Management Assistant

Reviewed by:  Sumedh Bahl, Community Services Area Administrator and John Seto, Safety Services Area Administrator

Body

Whereas, The University of Michigan, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, City of Ann Arbor Police and other local law enforcement officials are cooperating in a joint effort to enhance security at Michigan Stadium and for the residents who live in nearby neighborhoods by creating a vehicle-free zone around the Stadium during football games;

Whereas, The vehicle-free zone would be created by closing E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, closing the westbound right-turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and closing S. Main Street to both local and through traffic from Stadium Boulevard to Pauline;

Whereas, These closures would be effective three hours before a game to the end of the game, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before a game to the end of the game; and

Whereas, The dates for said closures would occur on the following dates:

·      8/31/13

·      9/7/13

·      9/14/13

·      10/5/13

·      10/19/13

·      11/9/13

·      11/30/13

RESOLVED, Street closures on E. Keech Street between S. Main and Greene streets, limiting access to parking permit holders on Greene Street from E. Hoover to Keech streets, the westbound right-turn lane on E. Stadium Boulevard (onto S. Main Street) just south of the Michigan Stadium, and S. Main Street between Pauline and Stadium occur from three hours before until the end of each game, with the exception of south bound S. Main Street which will be closed beginning one hour before until the end of each game on the following dates:

·      8/31/13

·      9/7/13

·      9/14/13

·      10/5/13

·      10/19/13

·      11/9/13

·      11/30/13;

RESOLVED, That following the first three games of the 2013 UM football season, Chief Seto presents a preliminary report at the September 16^th City Council meeting; and

RESOLVED, That Chief Seto meets with the near neighborhoods to determine any unintended consequences and reports to the City Council at their October 7^th meeting regarding the closures for the remaining of the games.

As Amended by Ann Arbor City Council on August 8, 2013