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-8- in the community where parking is permitted on both sides of the street. He added that parking is restricted on Chandler Drive only because that is a truck and MTC • route. The sign opponent distributed a colored photo of the street which showed two cars passing easily between parked vehicles on both sides of the street. Mr. Madden concluded his input to the discussion by commenting that he believed the Caravelle signatures should not be considered as. relevant to the decision since the apartments are too far north of the townhomess to be affected by the parking in front of Fosston. Mr. McDonough agreed with that assessment and reported he had measured the street and found it .to be 35 feet wide. Mrs. Madden supported the staff's removal of the sign north of the driveways. Chief Hickerson cited the traffic accident report for the past five years for Foss Road and similar residential streets near Foss, all of which intersect 37th Avenue N.E. Foss had fewer accidents than Highcrest, Edward, Belden, or Macalaster and the Chief said parking had been a factor in none of the incidents on Foss :Road. He also said, if traffic counts on Foss had been taken, they had been done by Ramsey County in conjunction with the rebuilding of 37th and he would have to get those figures from them. Mrs. Dobrzynski responded that she did not consider Foss Road, which serves two townhome complexes, an apartment complex, and a nursing home, to be a typical residential street. Ms. Getman said most of the Caravelle residents drive all the way around to Chandler to avoid the Foss Road slope onto 37th in the winter. She responded to Mr. McDonough's statement that there are sidewalks on Fosston property which walkers could use, if they were only shoveled, by saying these "internal pathways" have never been shoveled because residents oppose the implementation of an assessment to keep them cleared. Mrs. Koch reiterated the • difficulty she and another Fosston resident experience trying to get home from the bus line in the winter because the snow storage narrows the roadway between parked cars. It was her contention that during a winter like the previous one, there was no way the Fosston sidewalks could be kept open. Mr. Miller recalled that at one time all parking on the west side of Foss Road had been prohibited. He commented. that the nursing home administration had recognized the parking problems on that roadway and had built a blacktop apron for guests to park who wished to use the Foss Road entrance to the nursing home. . Chief Hickerson told those present he had not been aware of the controversy when he had made his assessment of need for parking in that area, and still maintained the only sign which was essential for safety was the one near the busy intersection. He concluded by saying 90% of the residential streets in the City are the same width as Foss Road and those residents all have to walk on the streets, even when they get narrower after it snows. He questioned _whether the fact that drivers might have to wait for another vehicle to pass really constituted a good. enough reason to justify restricting all parking away from the intersection traffic. The general consensus of the Council and Mayor was that it would be very difficult to not support the staff recommendation on this matter and they agreed it might be advisable to monitor the street during the different seasons to see if there is enough concrete evidence to justify the Council 's taking another look at the Association's request, probably after the rebuilding of 37th is completed. Motion by Councilman Enrooth and seconded by Councilman Marks to implement the City • staff's recommendations to put up only one "No Parking" sign on the east side of Foss Road between the intersection of 37th Avenue N.E. and the Fosston driveways and to institute a study for the next four months which might provide justification for reconsideration of the Association's request in the spring.