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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, August 15, 2022 <br />Page 15 <br />and I do remember when I was on the line driving the truck up there when there are snow <br />mounds or plowed snow that makes that circle smaller and when cars are parked on the inside, <br />that makes it even smaller so I do recall being where I was driving the engine or fire truck and <br />we would be at a place where we couldn't make the turn around the cul-de-sac. <br />But furthermore, digging into this so-called Pandora's Box just opens more and more levels of <br />issues. The complex of the building to my knowledge before the Building and Fire Code existed <br />is lacking key features that wouldn't be permissible today and they might not even be <br />permissible now. So in digging into the Code, 943, 931, 947, 939, 935 our only access to get to <br />those buildings.is off of that cul-de-sac. So if we have an ambulance call or a fire call, our <br />closest access to any of those structures is on that circle. That's the closest we can get. <br />Technically, we are probably going to be in touch because you might have to put Fire <br />Department access roads in because we don't have the ability to access the buildings. I am not <br />done with that interpretation but I will let you know when I get there. <br />In the meantime, I lived in the apartments in 2001. I understand the parking situation and the <br />ambulating around the property. There are some challenges for elderly people. That's not a <br />question. We receive calls for help with things. It's a challenging place to live if you are elderly <br />and have disabilities and live on the second floor. It could be difficult. In a perfect world, all <br />those challenges wouldn't exist but they do. Like I said with the snow load and the fact that <br />that's our closest place to gain access to those buildings when we have an emergency, I can't <br />make any recommendation but to ban parking on the cul-de-sac. <br />A member of the audience asked, the whole cul-de-sac or would you give us some room off the <br />street? <br />Chief Carcioppolo replied, the whole cul-de-sac. Going back to what you said, I get the <br />convenience for the apartment building, but when the apartments were put in, they had to have <br />enough parking for their residents. The street isn't part of the apartment complex's parking plan. <br />The island, I agree with Tom, we drove around it, we were able to move a vehicle around it with <br />a couple of cars parked there, but we can't control when those cars are parked there and how <br />many. The island didn't change the fact that our only access to those buildings is down that path. <br />While I can sympathize with the convenience part of it, I can't sympathize with the entitlement <br />part of it because we have five buildings there with approximately 40 separate wall units so my <br />best recommendation to Council is you guys pass the ordinance as it's written and I am going to <br />continue reviewing this and talking with the State because we have had other issues similar to <br />this which is why this has become more of a topic now that maybe hasn't been picked up before. <br />If anyone has any questions, I can try to answer them as best as I can. <br />Mrs. Jurcisek stated, you stated your point. <br />