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A' <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Mark Bernhardsonr City Administrator <br />DATE: May 23, 1985 , w <br />yVo --SUBJECT: North Shore Drive Petition - No Parking / <br />cn,£^^i O <br />At the last Council meeting property owners from North Shore <br />Drive handed staff a petition requesting No Parking signs be <br />posted on both sides of the road on North Shore Drive east of the <br />bridge. At present there are no parking signs on the north side. <br />As you may recall back in 1982 a similar petition request was <br />made. With the principal problem identified being vehicles with <br />trailers. The City at the time explored the possibility of <br />prohibiting parking for vehicles with boat trailers, but as it is <br />a County road they would not permit that, since they felt it was <br />discriroatory without any basis. In reviewing the problem the <br />items of significant concerns seem to be: <br />- Pedestrian Safety - Given the posted speeds along that <br />area, vehicles parked on the side do not allow much <br />visible distance for vehicles and pedestrians to see <br />each other when people are crossing the road from the <br />south to the north side. At present we have no <br />significant history of accidents, however we understand <br />there have been near misses on occasion. <br />- Trespassing - There seems to be a problem in the practice <br />gf persons when the public access is full to put their <br />boat in at the access to drive up park in the area that <br />the no parking is being requested and proceed to cross <br />private property and utilitize private docks to board <br />the boat. <br />“ Disturbing the Peace - Apparently boaters particularly <br />those who have parked along there tend to be rather raucous <br />in their return and wrapping up their activities and <br />generally causing a problem in the neighborhood. <br />On these following two items there has not been any significant <br />reports or problems identified by th^ police department in this <br />area. While these last two problems may be alleviated by <br />eliminating parking along tha^stretch these items may be able to <br />be addressed in another^^InanjPr and working with the police <br />department and the patrol ofTicer in the area. <br />f <br />The concern on the Cit\Ss side, should there be No Parking posted, <br />are the allotment of slots along the lake for vehicular <br />trailer parking and since^^ese are counted in the DNh a <br />allocation to eliminate these^^2^ slots would necessitate finding <br />allocated slots somewhere else.