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