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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 15, 2022 Page 12 Our bus stop is at the bottom of our street at the intersection with Derby and there's a lot of traffic that comes through there while the children are waiting for the bus. They are not always supervised either. I have had to intervene on children who are fighting or in the middle of the street. I called the school about it before as well because I am concerned about the safety at that stop. In addition, we did persist in our request because of this and the head of transportation did a ride -along in one of the buses and she came back and told us that she felt that if one more car was parked on the cul-de-sac it would have been too difficult for the bus to safely pass and that the police would need to come to escort the bus to back it up down the hill so they couldn't park safely. My husband then had contacted George Williams who is our Councilman about these concerns. In addition to the bus, spaces are often so full that people will double park. I took a few random photos last week on my days when I had off. I am part-time, so on my two days off around when the bus comes, one car was totally blocking the one side of the cul-de-sac. A vehicle would not be able to pass. This happens regularly when people are parked there, especially when people are moving in and out or when there's delivery vans and that entire side gets obstructed. Another issue that we have is when the parking spaces are full people will park in front of my mailbox and we get letters from USPS saying that we will not get our mail delivered if people continue to park in front of our mailbox. We have also had issues when it's full. People will just idle in front of our driveway. I have had to have my kids run the frozen stuff up while a car is sitting in front j of our driveway and we wait for the police and usually someone comes out beforehand. It's vim/ quite a popular parking area. Quite honestly, I never thought of the safety concerns either but after we received the letter of the proposed ordinance I looked it up and found out that on average fire trucks are five feet longer than school buses. Like the others who have spoken, I don't drive a school bus so I can't say for sure. That pretty much covers it. I urge you guys to pass this proposed ordinance. Thank you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you. Are there any other public comments? Ray Woods Maintenance Supervisor at the Apartments I have been there almost 19 years. Again, what George brought up my question would be is why the ordinance to cancel, why not the ordinance that you are getting rid of the island at the end of Aintree because of safety concerns? I live right at that corner where that island is at the curb. Cars hit it constantly. My question would be to you guys is why an ordinance to ban parking, why not an ordinance to change the variance of the size of the island that you guys installed? I also question to you guys, why not a ban on Hunt Circle also? If we are going to ban Aintree then we should also include Hunt Circle because that's the same cul-de-sac and that has the same distance, same features and everything and there's no ban on the parking of that street at all. There's no parking ban. Cars could park there also and obstruct buses there and fire trucks. If we are going to make it about safety, then let's make it about safety, not a concern that it's