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one car and leave in one car. Not to say that�ere are not people who bring their friends, <br /> but typically that only involved one other car. By contrast, if you apply the draft <br /> amendment to a Sunesta. or a sundeck boat, there may be room for 8 to 10 people, but the <br /> reality is there are usually only 2 to 4 people actually using the boat. In short, the draft <br /> amendment would require more parki.ng space than reality has dictated over the many <br /> years that tlus boat club has been in existence. Furthermore, when the time-share boat <br /> club members leave to make way for the next boat club members — i.e. the car that the <br /> prior shift came in leaves. Furthermore, peak use of the boat club on weekends, would <br /> have almost no application to the 5/7ths of the week when people are at work and only <br /> come out late in the afternoon That pattern allows for only one use per boat in the <br /> evening hours. Agai.n to require further pazking place allotment for a problem that does <br /> not exist seems to me to be unrelated to any legitimate legislative purpose that actually <br /> exists. <br /> It is also true that if more parking spaces are required, the landscaping that has been done <br /> will be further undone to turn the bufferi.ng areas, which the city initially required at the <br /> time the mari.na building was built, to be terminated in favor of parking. <br /> I think that is not a friendly change to the neighborhood. <br /> The real change in parking in and around the area that surrounds Sailor's World(i.e. Hwy <br /> 51 to the south end of my property and west northwest to Brown Road going up to Spates <br /> Ave) has nothing to do with the mari.na. The great influx of parking over the last two <br /> years has been the result of the high use of the converted Dakota. Rail Trail as a <br /> bicycle/walking/rollerskiing/rollerblading/rnnn;ng trail. It is not uncommon by late <br /> Saturday or Sunda.y morni.ng in the summer to the mid fall to have cars lined up all along <br /> Brown Road and sometimes on Spates or the old railroad frontage road. That is the real <br /> source of potential tra�ffic or parking congestion as it has the effect of obstructing vision <br /> at the corners of Spates and Brown and narrowing the lanes of Brown Road where both ' <br /> adults and children are riding bikes. There are two bicycle and 30 mph car interchanges <br /> in that area. The municipalities/county have seen fit to make bicycles yield to car traff"ic <br /> at those interchanges even though that is not the way the traffic on the Dakota Rail Trail <br /> actually rides it. Neither is it in keeping with the modern trend of havi.ng automobiles <br /> yield to bike or pedestrian traffic. In my opi.nion, that creates a real danger that should be <br /> addressed and the council could better spend its time resolvi.ng that than addressing a <br /> non-existent issue of marina parl�ng. <br /> Respec y ubmitted, � <br /> Ai ettles � <br /> 26- ear Resident and Former Council Member <br /> 1940 Shoreline Drive <br />