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once upon a time the Gardens at Ironwood were approved for senior housing with 172 units and 129 parking spots which includes delivery parking, handicapped parking, and guest parking and so forth and so on. All of the streets contiguous — Valley, Busch, Ironwood, Donahue, Ironwood Court are all posted "No Parking." There's no parking for any guests or anyone who is not a resident. Each unit is given one parking pass. If they have two cars they must park in a neighborhood two to three blocks away. We are not allowed to park in the church parking lot or the school parking lot even with the church or school's permission or we will get notes on our cars "do not park here or we'll call the police." We get notices that we will be towed. These are notices I found on my car where I've parked in the school parking lot with the school's permission. The school nor the church wants to give written permission because of liability reasons but the management at the Gardens at Ironwood insist on written permission so that is not obtainable, so my car would have to be parked in front of or near someone's home where I received threats, vandalism, and I eventually sold my car. After 55 years of owning a car, I want another car but I have no place to park. During construction of this project, I cannot help but think existing parking lots are going to be torn up in order to allow construction of new roads, so what's going to happen with the existing parking spots which I'm not allowed to park on anyway is really not germane to my situation. What is germane, and I think I still have enough time, is the letter I sent to very cooperative Jenny today where she said I must get permission from apartment management and /or the homeowners association behind the apartments in order to have the no parking restrictions on the public street known as Donahue Drive and the public street known as Ironwood Court removed. Apparently, Ponderosa Homes, a partner with Anheuser Busch Investors, owns the apartments and then the homeowners association created by Ponderosa Homes would be my adversaries. I obviously cannot take either one of those on. I'm just the unknown senior apartment dweller at this point in time, but I feel that the City should look into the power it has given to private enterprises such as apartment complex owners and homeowners associations to tell the public who can and who cannot park on the public streets surrounding the Gardens at Ironwood. Ritter: Okay, are there any other speakers on that topic? Okay, we'll pull it back to the Planning Commission. Do we have any questions for staff? Nagler: A couple of questions —as I am just learning this issue, the City as a matter of policy doesn't have a position one way or the other regarding whether there should be "no parking" signs on these streets, right? Weinstein: That's basically right. The request for "no parking" signs on Donahue in particular came from the two HOAs in this area; the HOA for the Ironwood community and the HOA for the Gardens. There was a letter we have from 2010 that indicates that request from the two HOAs per an agreement for the City to install "no parking" signs along Donahue. So that's where the signs came from in the first place. I think from a traffic safety perspective we don't have any issues with parking along that street. I think that the motivation on the part of the HOAs for installing "no parking" signs there was a fear that people getting out of their cars could hurt themselves on the swales that are adjacent to the street, so I think their motivation in asking the City to install signs was to reduce their liability in case somebody got out of their parked car along the street and fell into one of the swales. That said, we are definitely willing on the City's side to relook PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 10, 2016 Page 5 of 10