City may allow side-by-sides for city streets
Hays Daily News
Side-by-side alternative vehicles may show up before long on the city streets of Hays, if enthusiasts of the small, nimble non-automobiles get their wish.
Used primarily for sport or agriculture, the smaller than standard, four-wheel vehicles are popular with farmers and with those who like to play on sand dunes and off-road.
At Thursday’s regular work session of the city commission, a group of residents asked the commissioners to approve an ordinance allowing them on the streets of Hays.
The vehicles, some of which can go upwards of 65 miles an hour, already are legal on the highways of Kansas, as well as in the towns of Ellis, Victoria, Ness City, Garden City, Dodge City and other cities in western Kansas.
Hays Daily News
A $450,000 project to shade the eight ball field bleachers at city-owned Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex should relieve the No. 1 complaint there, according to Jeff Boyle, parks director for the city of Hays.
“Originally we were seeing more complaints about the playground not being in place,” said Boyle on Thursday evening at the regular work session of the Hays City Commission in City Hall, 1507 Main.
“That project is done and everybody is happy with that,” Boyle told the commissioners. “But we’re still hearing about shade. So now it became the No. 1 complaint that we receive out there.”
Boyle is recommending the commissioners approve the shade project next week during their weekly commission meeting.