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Municipal Facilities Committee Notes
September 8, 2005 Workshop

Group brainstormed factors that worked well and were perceived as success and opportunities for improvement and further dialogue relative to the Soule School Project.

Success:
• Over all communications
• Participants were pleased with French School and Community relations
• French School communication of work/project schedule
• No Parking signs on the road
• Notification to Bustins Island property owners of potential impacts and meetings
• Allowing parking on the street as a last resort
• End to end parking in the public lot
• Volunteer support to count cars.
• High degree of resident participation
• Structured meeting format
• Participants were able to voice their opinions
• Lot was crowed but perceived as working
• New fence successfully buffers the impact of lights

Opportunities:
• Silver Bullet use and over all space allocation
• Impact from lights of cars parked in front of lot
• Trash in parking lot
• Flyers placed on cars in lot
• “No Parking” signs over the summer months were viewed as tacky and not effective
• Discuss right of way with John Thomas
• Determine enforcement responsibility for parking to ensure consistent and ongoing compliance to ordinance
• Sunday, Church parking non compliant with parking ordinance
• On days when lot was full there was parking available at Strouts and Brewers Marinas versus parking on the street
• Potential safety concern on Sundays with kids darting between cars to cross street
• Lack of a defined area to access the walking path
• Fundamental question relative to the Tenants ability to grant parking beyond what is approved in the site plan
• Bring added clarity to the French Schools role and responsibility
• Space not maximized in the public lot. Should allow cars to park bumper to bumper.