HomeMy WebLinkAboutA001 - Email from Nancy Applequist dated July 9, 2018 z McKinley Drive Parking Ordinance Update
Nancy Applequist to: mgansen 07/09/2018 11:38 AM
Cc: dvoss
Hello, Mark,
I received your letter with the proposed changes to the parking
ordinance for my street. I live at 1504 McKinley Drive, so according to
this proposal parking would be allowed on my side of the street.
I wonder if you or your office know the historical reason we had the
ordinance for No Parking from 7 :30-9:30 AM on school days? It was
because high school students had begun to park all day in front of our
houses in order to avoid paying for a permit to park in the high school
lot. I 'm concerned that if that is changed, we' ll begin to get all day
parking in front of our houses again.
Also, ' I wonder why this change is being made since the main entrance to
Fellows School is on 20th now and no longer on McKinley Drive. We don't
have a lot of congestion during the time school lets out. Parents line
up mostly on the south side of McKinley and wait for their children to
walk to their cars. For about 20 minutes it's busy, but then clears up.
The times that my segment of McKinley Drive get parking on both sides is
during Ames High football games and Fellows School open houses. Then
.it' s difficult to get through. But I don't think that difficulty a few
times per year warrants changing the ordinance for the whole year.
Sincerely,
Nancy Applequist
1504 McKinley Drive, Ames, IA 50010-4516
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