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Mounds View City Council October 10, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 3 the September 26 meeting and there was no input from the residents on the west side of the road. 1 He stated the residents on the west side of the road were also impacted and he asked Council to 2 reconsider the extent of the parking ban. Mayor Marty stated these were good points and he 3 asked Council if they were willing to defer this to the November work session. 4 5 Council Member Stigney suggested staff look at this now and bring their recommendations to the 6 work session meeting. 7 8 Council Member Thomas stated her only concern was that the work session was quite a ways 9 down the road and they could not make any decisions at that meeting. She suggested staff put 10 something together for Council for the next City Council meeting because this would be a better 11 timeframe to work with before the weather turned inclement. 12 13 Police Chief Sommer stated he could draft something for the Council’s next meeting. He 14 indicated he understood the residents wanted a ban on the west side, which created a problem for 15 people parking on the east side. He stated they could look at the west side parking, or the hours 16 of the parking ban. He indicated from a security standpoint, however it was not a good idea to 17 have cars parking adjacent to a school. He stated the Police Department would grant permission 18 for parking exclusions for special occurrences, but this was not something they did on a daily 19 basis. He indicated he was sure they could work something out though. 20 21 Mayor Marty asked if they could have no parking or stopping on the east side. Mr. Warwick 22 stated that would force the children to cross two lanes of traffic to get to the waiting car. He 23 stated it would be better to have parents pick up kids on the east side. 24 25 Mayor Mary requested Police Chief Sommers to get together with public works to get a report 26 together for the next Council meeting. 27 28 Russ Anderson, 5159 Edgewood Drive, inquired who said there was no parking on the west side 29 of the street years ago. Mr. Warwick stated it was approximately 25 years ago. 30 31 Mr. Anderson stated he did not recall one child being hit. He asked if there was no parking 32 where would people park when there were after school or evening events. He stated he did not 33 believe there should be a no parking restriction. 34 35 Craig _____, 5091 Edgewood Drive, stated if there was no parking on the west side of the street, 36 everyone was still parking there to pick up their children and no parking on the east side was not 37 an issue. He understood there was a security issue, but would this apply to all of the schools in 38 the District. He stated the issue was enforcing the no parking/waiting on the west side and this 39 had nothing to do on the east side. 40 41 Chris _____, 5041 Edgewood Drive, stated he has lived in the community four years and he had 42 not seen much of the enforcement of the bans as they have existed. He stated a total ban was not 43 going to resolve the problem and all it did was force people to break and law or park farther 44 away. He stated he did not like the idea of calling the Police Department every time they wanted 45