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MEDLIN Johnny R From: MEDLIN Johnny R Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:12 PM To: 'Jan Wilson'; RINER Andrea G Cc: MEDLIN Johnny R; GRUBE Renee L Subject: RE: Amazon Overflow Parking Hi Jan, Thanks for you note of interest regarding the overflow parking. I have not been intimately involved with issues around the Amazon Park Plan recently although I was very involved with the adoption of the Amazon Park plan in the mid 90's. We have a number of situations with shared parking with School District 4J so I don't anticipate that getting permission to use non - school season parking would be a significant problem unless it might conflict with upcomming construction on the site funded by their school bond. I will find out what the status of conversation with 4J has been to date. My next question to staff will be: Assuming we had 4J permission to use that lot, how does its location either support or deter people from choosing to use it. This is the "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink" type of issue. I will also ask what is the current thinking about what types of things can we do to "encourage" the horse to drink. I remember the plan does call for allowing overflow parking and designates such an area. I do not recall anything in the plan that suggested this area be surfaced with anything except grass. I'm aware of the mitigated wetland area near the area shown for overflow parking. Do to this being a restoration area under mitigation requirements, I do not believe any parking should be allowed in that area. I will confirm these issues and also I will ask how the usage of the overflow parking conforms with the plan. Please give me a couple of days to talk to the currently involved staff to get fully up to speed. I think I can do that by next Wednesday. Thanks again, Johnny - - -- Original Message---- - From: Jan Wilson [mailto:jswilson @efn.org] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:59 PM To: RINER Andrea G Cc: MEDLIN Johnny R; GRUBE Renee L Subject: Re: Amazon Overflow Parking Thanks, Andrea. Johnny, I assume Andrea has filled you in on the concerns of the neighbors. They want the "overflow" parking on the grassy area to be used, if at all, only when all other paved spots at Roosevelt MS and elsewhere are filled. Currently the grass (which borders and sometimes includes the wetlands mitigation area) has been and is being used every day, all day, all summer for the past three years, even when other spots are empty, which doesn't really fit anybody's idea of "overflow." They have run into quite a bit of resistance when they ask about the Roosevelt lot, even though people using the soccer fields are already parking there (in about 20 of the 70 -some spaces - still lots left for pool patrons), so I doubt 4J would have any problems with it during the summer. Somewhere along the line, somebody at the city told them to "go hire a lawyer," so they did - that's me. But I don't really see why I'm needed here - it seems like this should be simply a matter of finding the right staff - person or group of staff - persons to get the sign -off from 4J, move some fences, post some signs, etc., etc. The neighborhood residents have already agreed to help with whatever needs to be done. I understand the new park plan is in development, and that's fine - the neighbors, in fact, have a representative on the advisory committee. But that's a "future" plan - the neighbors want to know what they can do about this right now. Maybe you can't deal with all the issues this year - maybe