Pending Tuesday evening’s decision by the New Iberia City Council, motorists cruising the length of Dale Street might get to the other end three stop signs more quickly.

After a traffic study, comments from residents around the Dale Street area and from around New Iberia and a discussion, the Planning and Zoning Committee voted to convert the four-way stops at Corinne Street, Weeks Street and Broussard Street to two-way stops. They recommended the stops at Walton Street and Ann Street, also under consideration, remain four-way.

Many residents close to the area opposed the removal of particular stop signs. Councilmen David Broussard and Raymond “Shoe-do” Lewis spoke against the sign’s removal, as did councilman-elect Robert Suire, who played a large part in many of the signs’ placement years ago.

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Board member Keith Laperouse, who headed the study, said a driver traversing the length of Dale Street might currently encounter 11 stops in 20 blocks — eight stop signs, two traffic lights and a stop at either end of Dale.

A majority vote of the City Council is needed to approve the board’s recommendations.

A less contentious vote might be to follow the board’s recommendation to uphold the city’s current mobile home ordinance, instituted by the same city council in 2005, which allows mobile homes only either in trailer parks or replacing a pre-existing trailer within six months of the previous trailer’s removal.

The council will also vote on restricting “changeable electronic variable message signs” in historical and residential areas, on appointing Lloyd Verret to the empty spot on the Planning and Zoning Commission and will hear a presentation from Bruce Conque of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce on the I-49 project.