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Mounds View City Council March 24, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 8 View. He then said that this building has a few spots for client parking and a handicapped stall 1 that his other location did not have. He further commented that he is concerned about having 2 women walking to their cars a long distance should the street be posted no parking. 3 4 Mayor Linke indicated that was one reason why he would like to provide more parking on the 5 property to eliminate the need for employees walking such a distance. 6 7 Mr. Farrell indicated he was willing to look into ways to expand the parking lot. 8 9 Mr. Farrell indicated that he is willing to work with the City on expanding the parking lot and 10 asked Council not to post the street no parking to allow for infrequent use of on street parking 11 should it be necessary. 12 13 Council Member Gunn asked why the Planning Commission had recommended 350 feet. 14 15 Planning Commissioner Johnson indicated the distance was in an attempt to make it far enough 16 from the business to be an issue and force the property owner to seek alternative parking. He 17 then said that he had two calls from the apartment building and was told that the property owner 18 requires the apartment residents to empty the parking lot when it snows and those cars flow out 19 onto the residential streets until the lot is plowed. He also explained that there was concern with 20 where to allow the on street parking so that it did not line up with driveways. 21 22 Planning Commissioner Johnson indicated that some of the parking issues are not created by Mr. 23 Farrell but at certain times of the day they are. He then commented that one of the apartment 24 residents had told him that there are apartment dwellers that have four or five residents in one 25 apartment and way too many cars and those flow out onto the residential street. 26 27 Council Member Gunn asked if anyone looked at how many cars are parked and at what time of 28 day. 29 30 Mr. Rose indicated that two weeks ago the apartment residents had to clear the parking lot for 31 plowing and he caught them attempting to park in the parking lot for his business and then under 32 the stop sign and had to ask them to move. He then indicated the police report would provide the 33 information on the number of vehicles parked on the street during the study and at what times. 34 35 Interim City Administrator Ericson said while he feels it is appropriate to ask Staff to work with 36 the property owner he would like Council to know that Staff and the Planning Commission have 37 tried to do so but there is no other way to configure the parking lot to eliminate the parking 38 shortage. He then said that this goes all the way back to the original developer trying to 39 configure the building on the site as it is a small site and the only way to develop it was to give a 40 variance. 41 42 Interim City Administrator Ericson indicated he was not sure increasing the parking would be the 43 best thing aesthetically and that is not what the neighbors or the Planning Commission intended. 44 45