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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 15, 2022 Page 9 Mr. Clines is here in favor of this variance says a lot about it. I won't bore you with all my comments from last time. Council President Schutt asked, any other questions or comments for discussion by Council? There was none. Council President Schutt asked, Roll call please, Mrs. Betsa. ROLL CALL: AYES: Arndt, Jurcisek Motion Carried Meyers, Murphy Appeal Approved Schutt Board of Zoning Appeals' NAYS: Marquardt Decision reversed Council President Schutt stated, it's a 5-1 vote. That reverses the decision from the BZA. Council President Schutt stated, we will now continue on with the open portion of our meeting. This is related to any other'topics that anybody would like to discuss. If you would like to come up to the podium, please state your name and address for the record. George Hughes 931 Aintree Park Drive, #202 Thank you for allowing me to speak this evening. I have been a resident of the Village for 25 years. There's a big building, 931, which is the only building that actually overlooks the cul-de- sac. My topic this evening is the proposed banning of parking on the cul-de-sac in front of our building. I am going to say approximately somewhere between 7 and 10 years ago, the Village decided to put an island in the middle of the cul-de-sac. It's very nice. It looks very nice. It enhances the area. Prior to that there were no problems with illegal parking on the circle. Since that time, parking has been allowed and to my knowledge it has not been a problem. According to the letter that the Mayor sent out, the problem seems to be that the fire trucks and school buses have trouble getting around the island when there are vehicles legally parked. I am not disputing that. I don't know. Although I have written two different letters to all of you. While I was writing the first one, it just so happened that the big fire truck happened to come through. I got up and watched it go around the circle without any problems with cars parked there. They could have been lucky; just happened to get it right and then made it out. Over the last five years I think I have seen maybe a half dozen school buses come by and go around the island while cars were parked there. I have not seen them have any problems. I am not going to dispute that they are having problems getting around that turn. In my current letter, I outlined the hardships that it would cause for people like me with disabilities as well as other people to have to not be able to park in front of the building.