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b. The proposed use will not create an excessive burden on parks, streets, and other public facilities. Overflow, on-street parking certainly does affect the streets surrounding the park and ride facilities. Several people have commented on the additional traffic and the inconvenience of people parking on the street even, on occasion, in front of their mailboxes but the majority of these comments also include a recognition that the short-term inconvenience is easy to tolerate because of the great value of the park and ride facilities. Planning Division staff believes that the preponderance of positive comments received about the park and ride mm facilities is evidence that the INTERIM UsEs do not constitute an excessive burden on streets, parks, or other facilities. C. The proposed use will not be injurious to the surrounding neighborhood or otherwise harm the public health, safety, and general welfare. In the many years that the park and ride facilities have operated, Planning Division staff has received no reports of health or safety issues; there was some discussion with Police Department staff about preventing buses from staging in the County Road B right-of-way but, in the end, no changes to bus staging locations were recommended. Noise and trash are concerns and, based on the email communications provided with this report, seem to have been problematic at one mm location in particular. But the present application no longer includes the location that was the source of the most unsupportive comments, and a series of conditions of approval that have been refined over the years would help to ensure that the other sites continue to operate in a way that the neighboring property owners find acceptable. 6.0 PUBLIC COMMENT 6.1 In addition to three phone calls from homeowners near as many of the sites, two who are supportive and one who feels that on-street overflow parking should be prohibited, Planning Division staff has received several emails, which are included with this report as Attachment D. mm 6.2 The duly-noticed public hearing for this application was held by the Planning Commission on November 2, 2011; draft minutes of the public hearing are included with 14 0 this staff report as Attachment E. Two members of the public were present to comment on the application, one of which was a volunteer and frequent patron of one of the park 14 2 and ride locations who was fully supportive of the renewed approval. The other speaker's 14 3 comments were also supportive of the park and ride service but provided additional detail Ill 44 on the on-street parking dilemma; while the influx of vehicles parked on the street is an 14 5 annoyance, any constraint on the State Fair parking by prohibiting on-street parking on 14 6 one or both sides of a street or by issuing parking permits to the homeowners and allowing street parking by permit only fails to solve the problem of scarce on-street mm parking for guests of the neighborhood residents during the State Fair. PF07-017 2011 Renewal RCA 112111.doc Page 4 of 6