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Additianally, Staff recommer►ds that in whatever City Counc�l goal-setting process you embark upon, Cauncil may wish to see where parking issues fall among the large number of issues compe�ing for your time, attention, and City resources. Tn that regard, you may prefer to dig one we1160 feet deep and hit vvater rather than dig 10 wells six feet deep, raise unrealistic expectations, waste time and money, and leave a worse situation than when you staartecl. iIi. RECOMIVIENDATION For these reasons, staff xeca�me��ds the City not undertake a camprehensive review of parking regula�ions at this time. IV. ADDENDUM If the underlying concern is really al�out college students parking on fhe Snelling Service Drive, and now on Asbury Street, then let's address ihat specific situaiion. To recap, last Fall residents of the Snelling Service Drive north of Lydia complained fo Councilmember Kaugh about Northwestern College students parking overnzght on this segz�ent o� public street. Qn September 19, 2005, residents from one hame on the Snelling Service Drive appea�ed at �he Cauncil study session and voiced these compTaints. {The Council also received a Ietter from a seco�d residence echoing these complaints.) Public Works Director Duane Schwartz sard we could put signs an the Snelling Service Drive north of Lydia that prohibit avernight parking, but it would just chase the students to other sireets in ihe area. Council unanimously agreed ta erect the signs, and that was done. (Minutes attached.) Novv, in light of the no overnight parking ban on the Sne��ing Service Dzive, apparently some siudents are occasionally parking overnight on other publi� streets, in�luding As- bury. I� staff's view we have two aptions: Retreat ar Advance. We can retreat by taking down the "No Overnight Par�Cing" signs on the Snelling Service Drive that have chased the students to other streets. Taking the signs down will probably elirninate coliege students parking on Asbury but irritate fhe ariginal complainants on Snelling Service Drive. Or we can advance by erecting no parking signs an Asbury Street with whatever restriction the Council ox the residents want. {Probably no overnight parking, as on the Snelling Ser- vice Darzve signs.) However, some Asb�ry residents wham we haven't heard from yet may think the no parking sigz�s �hemselves are obtrusive. They may also feel ihey aren'f l�ofh- ered by the few vehicles that axe occasionally parking overnzght {in front of so�x�eone else's house). In addition, no parking restrictzons apply to everyone, including residents ar�d their own guests, as well as callege students. Mareover, parking restrictions on Asbury may chase the stude�ts to another sfreet. 8ut, at some distance away from No�thwestern College, studen�s will naE zz�ake the walk to �heir dorm roam on caz�pus ar to their apart- ment off-campus an� ihey will find sazne other place for �heir vehicle. 0