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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 15, 2022 Page 10 Where my parking garage is, it's about 3/4 of a city block away that I have to walk through to get my car and then come back and when I am ready to put it away I have to do the same thing. I don't have a problem with that. If I am going somewhere in the morning and bringing the car out, I would typically park it in a legal parking spot in the cul-de-sac and then if I was going out later in the evening, the car is right there for me. I won't have to make two trips up and down the stairs to get to the garage and so forth. After further consideration, I decided to send the second letter. I thought you know, the Village apparently when they decided to put in the island must have done some research to see what kind of island would be appropriate. Someone who was in charge of it should have had the opportunity to make sure that school buses, fire trucks and other vehicles of similar size would be able to get around the island with legal parking. Apparently that was not done, although we have existed with it for about 7 years. Now it seems to be a problem. My recommendation in my second letter was that I felt that rather to punish us that the Village should make the adjustment to the island. The island could be reduced completely around by about 3 feet and it wouldn't take away anything from the aesthetics of the island. If they didn't do it all the way around, if you simply remove two or three feet from the backside and the east side which is the coming out side, that will alleviate the problem. Vehicles should be able to have a turning radius to be able to get out without any problems. I feel that that is more helpful than not punishing us as a residents because somebody in my opinion dropped the ball when it was put in. The other thing I am going to ask is that if you decide to ban the parking, that you allow cars to park on the ingress all the way up to within 10 feet of the first driveway which is Jim Farmer's property which would give us at least five or six parking spots on the far side rather than the parking spaces that are in front of the building. That would be a big help. We would at least have an opportunity for that. I don't know what else to say. I am extremely disappointed. My son brings my groceries every week and when he comes he parks in front, drops off the groceries, he will spend an hour or two visiting with me and then go back down and leave. Now he would have to drop off the groceries, bring them upstairs and then go back downstairs, drive the car to the parking lot and then come all the way back and come back again. He's not disabled, but he's not getting any younger either. It seems to me that this isn't the right thing after the island's been there for almost 7 years, I just don't understand it. But I understand what you all do. I was a public servant for 65 years. I appreciate the things that you all have to deal with and I respect your decision and I will respect this decision. I thank you so much for the opportunity to speak before you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you for your comments. Are there any other comments? 9