Charleston City Council is asked to approve resolutions allowing road closures for various summer events at their meeting Tuesday night.

“This type of thing is normal for this time of summer,” said Mayor John Inyart.

Most of the road closures revolve around the Fourth of July activities planned for Charleston. The city’s annual Red, White and Blue Days, a festival that takes place both Tuesday, July 3 and Wednesday, July 4, will take up most of the blockage.

The Red, White and Blue Days committee has asked for Pierce Avenue from Division to Second streets be closed to parking and traffic July 3 for various festival activities, and streets surrounding Pierce Avenue, Sixth Street, Seventh Street, Division Street, Harrison Street, Jackson Avenue and Grant Avenue to both traffic and parking for both festival use and parade routes on July 4.

The roads for the parade will only shut down from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Fourth of July, said Inyart.

Going around Red, White, and Blue Day, Habitat for Humanity will also be sponsoring a four-mile foot race on the morning of July 4.

The Four-on-the-Fourth: Four-Mile Foot Race for Habitat for Humanity will have street closers starting at 8 a.m. and will shut down streets as needed while the race is going on. As soon as the runners pass, the streets may re-open. Streets subject to be closed include: First Street by Morton to Kiwanis Park, Harrison Avenue, 17th Street, Monroe Avenue, State Avenue around the County Fairgrounds, E Street and Taylor Avenue.

The race is to help raise money for Coles County Habitat for Humanity.

Both organizations had to submit their resolution request for street closure two weeks prior to the event, according to city request forms, and therefore making requests to city council at the same time. However, Inyart seems to be to such multiple requests this time of year.

“All of these [approvals] are what we do every year. They are annual events,” he said. “They just all happen all at once, but its normal for this time of summer.”

There is; however, one organization that is requesting road closers earlier than those for the Fourth of July festivities. The 2007 Panther Prowl 5K/ 15K Road Races have also put in their request for road closers for their race on Saturday, July 14.

The 5K race will be ran entirely on Eastern’s Cross Country Course at Pond Pavilion, but the 15K race will need temporary street closers starting from the triangle at Fourth Street followed by portions of University Drive and Lee’s Nursery Road. The race will be preformed between 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

As for the rest of the city council agenda, there will only be 13 items on discussion with others including: raffle permits for Coles County Extension Foundation, Coles County Fair Queen Pageant, an ordinance for stop intersections at the intersections at Hawthorne Drive, Shawnee Drive and Tanglewood Drive, the approval for a loan for a public works vehicle purchase, a time limit parking ordinance and a no parking ordinance.

The meeting will take place 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, located on Sixth Street.