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I guests xho visit the building residents. She said the group's • 2 spokesperson, Jean Krajna, had phoned her several times to report the 3 lack of parking space outside the building and failure to get any 4 response from either the META Partnership or their building manager to 5 residents' requests for more parking spaces in accordance with the 6 promises regarding overflow parking reached with the City during the 7 Redevelopers Agreement negotiations. 8 Residents' Testimony 9 Ms. Krajna reported that: 10 -Most of the residents present that evening had purchased their units 11 before the building was erected but had been assured by the building 12 owners at the time they signed their purchase agreements that even if 13 they had more than one vehicle and 142 spaces within the building and 14 15 outside were not sufficient to meet their parking needs, parking 15 would never be a problem because META owned the vacant lot next door 16 and planned to construct a medical/professional office building there 17 which would always have parking space available for 'the Kenzington 18 residents and their guests . 19 -The office building had never materialized and the lot is not .paved, 20 " making parking there was almost impossible. 21 -This left a 150 unit building with only 142 parking spaces inside and !22 12 .rather than the promised 15 spaces in front of the building which '3 are utilized most of the time by Kenzington employees and the service .4 and sales persons who come to the building. - 25 •In any event, the manager the META Partnership had hired, had now 26 informed her that she could not park the extra vehicle she owns 27 outside the building and "it was up to her to find her own parking." 28 -The building owners were so anxious to fill the building up they are 29 renting the 97 unsold units to couples who both work and both have 30 cars, leaving the condominium owners with no place for guests to park 31 because .no parking is permitted on the street and with the apartments 32 going up across Kenzie Terrace, parking is no longer available in what 33 was an empty shopping center when the Kenzington residents first moved 34 in. 35 -There have been rumors that the Partnership is going to sell the 36 vacant lot, which would leave the Kenzington residents with no hope 37 at all of having parking available for their extra vehicles or guests 38 without some sort of written agreement from, the building owners. 39 Ms. Krajna read the portion of the condominium by-laws which made 40 reference to an Overflow Agreement which stipulated "residents might 41 have to pay $10.00 a month extra to use outside parking spaces". She 42 said her attempts to get a copy of that document or any other response • _ 3