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