LIVING IT
More needless parking hell!
This made it before the planning commission last Monday night:
To: July 20, 2015 Plan Committee Agenda Item #10:
A parking lot request is being made by the school board on behalf of an absentee landlord so he can sell the property to the school board. The request involves the changing of the Comprehensive Plan, the rezoning of the property and approving a litany of exemptions. The requested exemptions involve the following facts:
- The lot does not met minimum area requirements.
- The entrance width cannot be met.
- The access drive width cannot be met.
- The paved set back cannot be met.
- The landscaped buffer cannot be met.
- The landscaping requirements cannot be met.
- The required distance from the intersection to the entrance cannot be met.
- The island requirements cannot be met.
- Exemption to nonresidential standards is required
- Exemption to the entrance length and lighting standards are also requested.
This document does not detail opinion.
These printed facts are taken from the school board’s request. The Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinances were put in place for a reason, and that reason does not include giving this committee the authority to approve, deny or recommend a single exemption, or change, based on the individual or group that is requesting it. Safety issues such as the distance from an intersection and the entrance widths, especially at a congested school intersection with young children, are not negotiable nor exemptible issues. The school board should be representing the children first, not the teachers. There are other ways to solve the teacher parking issue.
As a final thought: If this were a private owner’s request, would they approve it?
There must be a better solution to this parking issue one that has fewer “cannots” to overcome.
We agree Lisa, and thank you for your input.
Do you have a group, rallying against this, organized?
This is the “Vendetta Parking Lot.”
The City of Lake Geneva, in the persons of Dan Draper, Mayor Connors, etc., are promoting this parking lot to punish the people in Maple Park for not approving the City’s Parking Garage.
Instead of making the area a restricted parking zone for teachers on schools days, they are befouling a historic neighborhood with a loathsome looking parking lot.
Shame on the city for being so vindictive and on the school district for wasting our tax money.
It’s our money they are misusing. We pay our taxes to help students get a good education and not for a slush fund for school administrators.
You input is welcomed, Dick
How many are going to contiue top apply pressure against these pouting excuses of city officials?
The planning meeting of the 20th sure had some good detractors of this stupid proposal.
Here is link to the Video of that meeting. First 20 minutes good stuff!
City of Lake Geneva Planning Meeting, July 20, 2015