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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 13, 2019 Page 7 visitor parking. He did not think the City wanted to get into a permit process for visitor parking, but it really starts to create some costs and challenges associated with enforcement that he would want to understand better. One of the things the City could do is to blanket within a certain distance from all of these lots in the City posted no parking on one side, most likely the side with the mailboxes and is a pretty large solution to a nuisance problem. He suggested some sort of an opt in program where individual blocks of streets could vote to decide how parking should be enforced on their street. He liked the notion of the City being proactive about known safety issues, but he also had a feeling that different neighborhoods are of a different opinion as to whether there is an issue in their neighborhood. He would like to figure out a way to be responsive to that. Mayor Roe is concerned with a trend in recent years, not overflow parking from the park and ride lots but people actually park and walk to the State Fair from some of the neighborhoods in the closest proximity to the State Fair, especially on Roselawn between Fairview and Snelling. If the City were to look at something, he might suggest the Council consider taking those neighborhoods into account in some manner too. He was looking for ways to do this that are reasonably cost ef- fective but also try to get at the issues people have and maybe the variety of opin- ions across the City. Councilmember Laliberte stated she lives very close to someone who spoke this evening and does feel the pressures of being close to one of these park and rides. She wondered if the City could design a tool for the block captains to use on Na- tional Night Out to have a conversation with the folks that gather together and talk through what can be done. Mayor Roe asked who enforces a self-posted no parking. Mr. Culver stated it is not a matter of enforcement, it gets people to open their eyes and respect the resident. Councilmember Groff said he would be interested in looking at no parking signs but thought it would be cumbersome to post them block by block. Maybe it is one solution. Councilmember Willmus stated whatever path the City looks at to go forward, he thought it should be something that is clearly enforced. He did not know that he would be supportive of the whole organized effort behind the self-post things and not something that is enforceable. He thought the City needs to be more proactive than it has been with issues related to safety, issues of interrupting mail and gar- bage services, and things along that nature. He thought the City needed to tell the State Fair these are impacts that their organization's events cause upon the Rose- ville community and have the State Fair help facilitate what would be some fairly significant costs. He commented that the fair has made a conscious decision years