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November 20, 2001 Roseville City Council 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55 1 1 3-1 899 Re: Permanent no parking signs on Sextant Avenue Honorable Members of the Roseville City Council: My name is Jen Peterson and my husband and I live with our two small children on Sextant Avenue, near the intersection of Sextant and Albert Street. I would like to thank the council for taking up the issue of making the nn parking signs on Sextant permanent (November 26th agenda item). For the safety of the neighborhood, I strongly support making these signs permanent. During the previous school year, our neighborhood was discovered by Roseville High School students who wanted a free place to park their cars and then walk to the high school. What was originally a few cars parked towards the intersection of Hamline and Sextant quickly became a parking lot of cars parked on both sides of Sextant extending from Hamline to Albert. Students also parked cars on Sheldon. The parking situation had created a number of unintended consequences: With parking on both sides of the street starting at 7:45 am, it became increasingly difficult to navigate Sextant in the morning as I tried to get to work. There was significantly increased traffic activity as students drove in to find a place to park. Students walked in the middle of street without regard for oncoming traffic, and would not cross Hamline at the nroper pedestrian crosswalk at County B2. Instead they would cross Hamline where ever convenient which created both traffic and safety issues. I saw many instances where students would stand in the middle of Hamline between lanes of traffic as they tried to cross. Hamiine is difficult to merge onto during busy rush hour traffic and having to navigate high school students crossing in the middle of the street made this more difficult. • During the winter months it became difficult to navigate the intersection with parking on both sides of the street. Visibility was limited by cars parked too close to the Hamline intersection. It was also difficult for the snow plows to get through.