Concern for space for emergency vehicles is a factor in newly restricted parking areas in downtown Wellman.

The Wellman City Council approved prohibiting street parking on the north side of 3rd and 4th Streets between 7th and 8th Avenues. City Administrator Kelly Litwiller explains the need for no parking, “The one down on 3rd Street was because it gets narrower through there. The street is not the same width all the way through and when there’s parking on both sides of the road you can barely get a normal vehicle through there, and that route is used a lot for emergency vehicles that are coming from the fire department trying to get south out of town.”

No parking signs are being ordered and Litwiller expects them to be installed in the next week.