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Addiiionally, Staff recaz�z�ends tl�at in whafever City Council goal-setting process you embark upon, Caur�ci� may wish to see where parking issues fall among the Iarge number of issues competing for yt�ur tirne, attentian, and Ciry resoc�rces. In fhat regard, you may prefer to dig one we1160 feei deep �r�d hit water rather than dig 10 we11s six feet deep, raise unrealis#ic expectati�ns, waste time and re�oney, and leave a worse situation than when you started. �II. RECC?MMENDATION For these reasans, staff recommends th� Cit�r no� undertake a camprehensive review of �arking regulations at this time. IV. AUDENDUM If the und�rlying concern is really about c�llege s�udents parking on fihe 5nelling Service Drive, and now on Asbury Street, then let's address that specific situatian. To recap, last Fall residents of the Snelling Service Drive nor�h of Lydia �Qrnplained to Councilmember Kough abo�rt Nark�wes�ern �ol�ege students parking overnight on this segment of public s�reet. On September 19, 2005, residents from one home on the Sne�ling Service Driv� appeared a� the Cauncil study session and voiced these camplaints. (The Council aIso received a letter fram a second reside��ce echaing tl�ese cornplaints.) I'ublic Works Directar Duane 5chwartz said we cauld put signs on fh� Snel�ing Service Drive north of �,ydia �ha� parohibit avernight parking, hut it would just chase the students to other stxeets in the area. Council unanimausly agreed to erect the signs, and thai was done. (Minutes attached.) Now, in light of the no overnight parking ban on the Snelling Service Drive, apparently some students are occasionally parking overnight on other public streets, including As- bury. In staff's view' �ve have two op�ions: Ret-�eat ar Adva�lee. We can retreat by taking down the "Na CJvernight Parking" signs or� the Snellin� Service Drive that have chased the students ta other streets. Takir�g �he signs dawn will prnbahly eliminate college students parking vn Asbury but it�ritate the original complainan�s e�n Snelling Service Drive. Or we can advance by erecting �o parking �i�ns on Asbury Street with whatever restriction the Council or the residents want. {Probably no overnight parking, as on tl�te Sazellin� Ser- vice Drive signs.) Hawever, same Asbury residents whom we haven'� hea�d from yet may think the na parking signs t�ems�l�es are abtrusive. Ti�ey rz�ay al.so feel they aren't both- exed by the few vehicles that are occasionally parking overnigh� (in #ront of someane else's house), in atidition, no parking �estrzctians apply to everyone, including residents and their own guests, as �cvell as college students. Mareover, pa:rking restrictions on Asbury rnay chase the stud�nts ta another street. But, at some distance away fxam Northwestern College, students will nnt znake tl�e �ra1k to their dorm room on campus or to their apart- rn.ent off-caYnpus and fhey will find some other pIace for their vehicle. 4