Terry Ball, director of the city’s Streets and Stormwater Department, said the changes caused immediate concerns that required his department to block a lane south of the block with barrels.

“The striping plan that was approved required him (Price) to stripe south of the block he was on,” Ball said. “He was supposed to stripe off a taper there.”

The problem is that northbound traffic in the east lane of Main Street approaching Seventh Street had no indication that their lane was ending in the next block, Ball said.

Ball also said the stripes Price had painted weren’t thermal-plastic paint, which the city uses across the city, so the city will restripe it to specification.

“We require thermal plastic, and he just put paint down,” Ball said.

Other issues after the initial work was done included a lack of signage to indicate that the parking is back-in only and signage to indicate that the corresponding lane in the previous block was ending.

“One of the spaces was for handicap parking, but he didn’t put that (curb break) in, either,” Ball said. “Right now there’s a handicap spot without any way for handicap people to get on the sidewalk.”