The public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the “Do Not Block The Box” ordinance at a public hearing at a future date to be announced.

The Legislative Council at its May 3 meeting, in addition to sending the ordinance to a hearing, added an additional intersection — Pole Bridge Road and Route 34 — to the ordinance.

Do Not Block The Box is an ordinance designed to create open zones designated by painting line patterns to warn drivers against blocking specific areas of intersections. The ordinance would permit installing the painted warning grids as well as posting signs notifying operators where their vehicles can and cannot be when stopped.

The previous designated intersections are the intersections of Country Club Road and Route 25, Walnut Tree Hill and Church Hill Road, Elm Drive and Sugar Street (State Route 302), and at Berkshire Road (Route 34) and the Newtown High School driveway.

The council’s Ordinance Subcommittee chairman, Ryan Knapp, noted that the addition doesn’t mean they will paint the intersection, but it gives the town the ability to at a future time.

Knapp noted that the signage and striping were mainly meant to be the deterrent and people were observing it.

“It’s not a money maker by any stretch of the imagination,” said Knapp. “I think it’s something that’s more of an awareness thing.”

First Selectman Dan Rosenthal said a painted area at the entrance of the old police department headquarters was being observed and “worked well without intervention” when that building was the police department.

At its March 7 meeting, the Police Commission learned that by Connecticut state statute, the proposed ordinance must identify what specific intersections are to be included. Then, if commissioners want to add more intersections in the future, the ordinance must be amended.

According to the minutes of the January 30 Ordinance Subcommittee meeting, Police Commissioner Neil Chaudhary reported that many out-of-town residents travel through these intersections, and while there are proposed fines for offenses, the “real value of the ordinance” is the ability to post signs and paint lines where a town road and a state road intersect.

That effort must be backed by town ordinance before it can be approved by the state Department of Transportation.

During the March 7 police commission meeting, Chaudhary suggested the commission brainstorm what intersections should be included in the ordinance. He said if the town is not intending to put signs up and paint lines at the intersection, it shouldn’t be included in the ordinance.

Public Works Director Fred Hurley said the town has the money to stripe all the proposed intersections, so that “will not be an impediment.”