Community Corner
It’s Official: Foss Creek Circle Returns to Two-Way Traffic
Starting June 24, the beleaguered loop off Grove St. will drop its one-way direction and go both ways.
On June 24th Foss Creek Circle will once again become a two-way street, ending an 8-month period of one-way traffic that residents could never quite get used to.
The street, little more than a quarter-mile long, has a number of warehouse oriented businesses along its outer side, and offices and a health care facility in its middle island. On Oct. 2, 2012, it was switched to a one-way street, Healdsburg's first, in the clockwise direction.
The conversion to a one-way was precipitated by the heavier than anticipated traffic entering the circle to reach the Healdsburg Post Office, formerly a distribution annex, which was converted to the city’s main postal desk following the August, 2010 fire that destroyed the main post office at Center and North St.
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The clockwise direction of the one-way was decided upon because a single significant business on Foss Creek Circle, Silver Oak Cellars, said they would not be able to support their delivery truck traffic from a counter-clockwise direction.
But the clockwise direction never settled well with Healdsburg residents, who complained in print, online and at nearly every City Council meeting over full eight month life of the one-way street.
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Finally, at the June 3 2013 Council meeting, proponents of the one-way clockwise direction finally backed down, and approved returning the street to two-way traffic, as it had been before Oct. 2012, with additional street striping and other indicators of two-way lanes.
So this coming Sunday evening, June 23, that center line striping will be painted on the short loop street off Grove, which circles around the Park Point Plaza.
For a brief period overnight, despite the striping, the direction of travel will remain one-way, the “counter-intuitive” clockwise direction that has caused so much controversy.
On Monday morning, June 24, crews will remove all one-way markings and make changes to signage necessary for the conversion to two-way traffic. During the transition the Healdsburg Police Department will assist with traffic control.
Please be cautious when entering the area and pay particular attention to the work crews and direction given by police officers.
