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Date: Novembe,Z,Z004 t~~
To: City Clerk
From: Anissa Williams, JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner ~
Re: Item for November 16, 2004 City Council meeting: Change NO PARKING 8 AM TO 6
PM MON-FRI to NO PARKING ANY TIME signs on the south side of Brookland
Park Drive
As directed by Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 3B of the City Code, this is to advise the City Council
of the following action.
Action:
Pursuant to Section 9-1-3A(10), Change NO PARKING 8 AM TO 6 PM MON-FRI to NO
PARKING ANY TIME signs on the south side of Brookland Park Drive between Melrose Court
and Brookland Place
Comment:
This action is being taken due to a request from the Melrose Avenue Neighborhood Association
to remove on-street parking from the south side of Brookland Park Drive. Staff investigation
determined there was not a safety issue with current parking regulations, therefore a survey of
the affected neighborhood residents was conducted. The results of the survey were 4 votes in
favor of the proposal and 2 opposed. One of the opponents to the change stated that the street
was the only guest parking available at their residence. City staff position is neutral on this
request.
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From: Brand Newland [brandnewland@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:28 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: Brookland Park Drive parking issue
City Council Members-
I would like the Brookland Park Drive parking issue removed from the consent agenda so that it can be
discussed during the public portion of your upcoming meeting.
Thank you for your time,
Brand Newland
404 Melrose Court
11/15/2004
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Marian Karr
From: Ryan Parnell [rparnell11 @yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 8:38 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: Parking Situation on Melrose CI and Brookland Ave
My name is Ryan Parnell and I am emailing council
members to request that the topic of changing the
parking signs on the corner of Brookland Ave and
Melrose Ct from "NO PARKING 8 AM TP 6 PM" to "NO
PARKING" become a meeting involving public feedback
instead of just the council looking at the issue. I
live on Melrose Ct and this situation negatively
affects my neighbors and I greatly and many in the
neighborhood disagree with this proposition.
This is the only area for us to park at night and
weekends and it is especially important since many of
us live in apartments or houses that have more
roommates than necessary parking areas are provided.
Anyone who knows this area by the hospital and stadium
know that parking is basically non-existent and
without this parking, many of us would be at a loss
with no simple solution.
The complaints brought on to begin this issue are from
few and their situation differs greatly from our own,
mainly because of their position in life. The persons
I'm referring to are of an older age bracket who live
by themselves and/or with their significant other.
Their own driveways provide them with enough parking
for two vehicles and is sufficient. This situation
differs greatly from a college
(graduate/undergraduate) student who lives with two to
four roommates and with friends/significant others who
visit frequently.
Thank you for your time and I hope you can realize
this will adversely change our lives.
Sincerely,
Ryan Parnell
402 Melrose Ct
email: rparnell11@yahoo.com
phone: 319 400 4491
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Subject: City Newsbytes 11-02-04
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My wife and I were taking our usual evening hike, on October 30th, at 9:30 p.1\i~;past ~~
Kinnick Stadium, past the football practice field and the baseball field to the road that (..,)
cuts south up past the University ofIowa Hospital overflow parking area and on up to the
University's Finkbine Golf Course Clubhouse and past the University ofIowa Athletic
Club. This is a very well lighted route and we walk it nightly with our large dog 'Loki'.
Upon reaching Melrose A venue we decided to walk back the same way, just in reverse,
which was the very first time that we had ever done this. As we were walking northeast
just past the Finkbine Golf Course Clubhouse, we spotted approximately three hundred
feet away, a mountain lion standing in a perfectly well lighted area along the edge of the
sidewalk and grass that passes very close to a thirty foot deep ravine to the east. We had
just walked past this area no more than five minutes before and had seen nothing except a
lot of deer. The mountain lion was standing and was looking down over this ravine. This
ravine is one of the major deer entryways into the large woods that stands directly east of
Finkbine Golf Course and which extends into University Heights and to our own home's
backdoor. Dee.r can easily follow a totally wooded environment from over thirty miles
away and deer follow this wooded area from as far as the Amana Colonies, totally
undetected. This mountain lion evidently followed the large numbers of deer that led him
directly into our neighborhood.
We could see this mountain lion perfectly as we had kept walking toward it and we got as
close as 200 feet away. It had remained standing in excellent street lighting the whole
time as we approached. It must have been at least eight feet long and probably over 250
lbs.
This mountain lion was clearly viewed by both my wife and me for over two full minutes
as it remained standing in an exceptionally well lighted area, and with moon light, so we
were able to easily and very clearly make out it's lion face, it's very large body and it's
three foot long, rope like tail. This mountain lion looked directly at us for over a minute
as we continued to walk towards it, then it looked down into the ravine and then calmly
descended down off the sidewalk and grass into the ravine and into the woods to the east.
It did not seem frightened of us and if anything, it seemed mostly annoyed that we were
disrupting it's ability to stalk the numerous deer that were moving all about that night.
I notified the Iowa City Police and the University of Iowa Police the next morning. The
University ofIowa Police acted immediately. They picked me up at my home so we
could look at the area of the sighting, look for cat tracks, and for scat. The DNR was
called but they indicated that they could not act on this mountain lion sighting until actual
tracks were found. The University Police Officer and I thought we might try looking for
some tracks so we proceeded into the woods. He was a very nice officer and he
voluntarily showed me how to work his Teaser Gun just incase something happened to
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him. He also had a pocketknife. Knowing the size of the cat that we were trying to track,
this ended up being a very short, non-productive investigative walk. There is no way that
any resident should ever have to go up against a cat this size, ever, for any reason. Why
would the general public ever be asked to put itself at risk to look for tracks or for yet
another mountain lion sighting in order to get a picture without being allowed any real
means of protecting itself within the city limits, when this is the job for the DNR or
licensed, knowledgeable and approved hunters designated and approved by the various
City Councils that should be hired to immediately investigate and track any reported
mountain lion sightings within our communities! As long as there is a chance that a
mountain lion could still be in a residential wooded area, no one should ever be allowed
to venture in without expert knowledge and protection.
The reason no tracks have been found in this case is because no one has looked for them.
The DNR already stated it is not getting involved unless tracks are found, I do not own a
firearm, and it is also illegal to carry one in Iowa City and University Heights, there is no
way I am going to look for tracks for a cat this size without expert help, so this mountaiI).
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lion sighting report has died without any of the surrounding neighborhood be~ warned:
This is not a very good way for our city government to protect the neighborhQ@o ~
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leopards, as well as many other wildlife, for a film that I have shown professi~~ly :0: :---!
across North America. I have seen hundreds of animal kills in Africa by cats ~~/fuuc1f? ,.j
bigger than a full grown mountain lion, against prey much larger than a humai?, with ~l
success every time. Why is there no immediate and serious effort being made to move
quickly on these reported mountain lion sightings with the seriousness that these reported
sightings should demand and which are occurring more frequently in our residential
areas? Kids play in the woods where this mountain lion was seen entering.
Why is it that the DNR is not able to follow up more quickly on every reported
residential mountain lion sighting, especially those that have penetrated deep within our
communities? Why does it seem that the first effort that seems to be made is to assign
tasks, to discredit the story, or the circumstances or the people making the reported
mountain lion sightings? What reasons are there for discrediting many of the reported
mountain lion sightings? It could be the result oflack of everyone's effort to get the
needed evidence, and preconceived thinking that mountain lions do not venture deep into
a city or a populated residential area, or that mountain lions would not like to be seen in a
well lighted area on a walking path or that they would hear you coming and would never
let themselves be seen, or they would run away before you could ever see them up close,
or they are too scared of people, or they would not stand in one place that long without
running away, or every mountain lion leaves tracks for non-trained residents to easily
find and recognize and if they are there, you let us know, then we will get involved, or
that if a mountain lion is present, it should have been seen by others, or mountain lions
eat just deer and as long as they are well fed, they are harmless to people, etc." Who are
these people in authority who are making these kinds of preconceived judgments. Every
residential mountain lion sighting should be acted on immediately. People in authority
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that overlook the safety ofthe citizens truly need to start looking 'out of the box' to
understand the adaptability, the intelligence, the cunning and the power of the mountain
lion. No one is provoking fear into these mountain lions? No one is hunting them, they
have no natural enemies, why should they ever fear man, let alone a woman or a child?
Mountain lions are developing a greater boldness, they are learning quickly, and they are
watching closely, they are stalking deer now, but who is to say when that habit will begin
to change, and who would ever know as people would just start disappearing.
We need people involved in our DNR and our City government that are desirous of
protecting our residents living in our residential areas from the growing risks of having
mountain lions moving amongst us and I see a denial of this potential threat by some
authorities who are not responding quickly and properly to these mountain lion sighting
reports. Now that we have had two mountain lion sightings in residential wooded areas
on both sides ofIowa City, we should develop a DNR/ Iowa City/Coralville mountain
lion tracking crew that responds immediately to every mountain lion sighting within our
community. Anyone that says, "Well, no one has been killed yet, or mountain lions eat
just deer, or if they are full of deer meat, no human should worry," as an excuse for not
taking the infiltration of mountain lions into our community as a very serious threat
should not be re-elected to their leadership positions in this community. They are totally
out of touch with what is happening with a very smart and a potentially very dangerous
species of cat that is growing in numbers every year and which is becoming much
smarter than most of the people who are trying to understand, study and manage it. Thi~"
growing concern, if not dealt with soon, will eventually start making outdoor r~eatio~
life in this city more difficult and more dangerous to enjoy without fearing co~ly fOr::
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Mountain lions are predatory animals with extreme cunning and extreme physiOat;: "'" ,.....]
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strength. A full-grown mountain lion could easily kill a man the size ofIowa's:-=R;Ob~rt Sb: " ~....J
Gallery, the nation's best offensive football lineman last year. They canjump '@1ieally?'i
as high as 18 feet and jump as far as twenty feet in one leap. They are the grea~t N
jumpers of all of the world's cats. They can hit their victims with an impact force great;r
than the best NFL pro linebacker, which usually is intended to break the victims neck.
Most victims, if left only stunned, do not recover fast enough to ward off any further life
threatening attacks. Mountain lions do not belong in our neighborhoods and the DNR
and our city leaders should start acting like this is a very bad idea before someone gets
killed. If mountain lion sightings are reported within the city limits, State and city
agencies should immediately get there best trackers and hunters out to that location and
proceed to take care of business the proper way in order to protect our citizens, not try to
discredit the mountain lion sighting, or make our residents engage in preliminary tasks
that should be left up to experts.
Both Hickory Hill Park on the east side and now University Heights on the west side of
Iowa City have now had mountain lion sightings. Why is it that the huge deer population
located deep within our community is not being seriously addressed in order to reduce
it's numbers by any possible means and at any cost. The huge deer population is large
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enough now that even the predatory mountain lions are following the large deer
populations deep into our community to do what the DNR and our commooity leaders
should be continuing to do to reduce the deer numbers. Also, why are the mountain lions
not hunted down and killed who are stalking the deer deep into our cities and who are
showing no fear of our residents? In all of our National Parks, these types of predatory
animals that show no fear of people and make it to the camp grounds and lodging areas,
are the very first to be hunted down and killed. Where is this cities urgency to step in to
help make sure that mountain lion sightings within our city limits are taken seriously,
investigated quickly so that we can all be sure that we do not yet have a mountain lion
that is still lurking within our city limits who might eventually start stalking our children
as they play in the woods, as they walk to school or as they walk over to a ftiends house,
or a jogger on a remote wooded pathway?
This is a very serious issue that is life threatening, it is a critically important issue that
needs urgent addressing now before any of the lives of any of our citizens are harmed and
it needs to be dealt with in a well-planned approach that becomes a community wide
effort that does not make residents feel stupid for reporting a mountain lion sighting near
their home that they voluntarily report because they see it as a serious threat to their own
safety, their families safety, and to their neighborhood's safety. The DNR should start
evaluating it's policies for addressing the increasing growth in the numbers of mountain
lions in this state and how they are going to keep this State's residents safe and how they
plan to keep the mountain lion's numbers properly managed and how they are going to
keep all ofIowa's mountain lions fearful of mankind.
I would not have felt so strongly about this issue ifI had not personally seen a very
dangerous sized mountain lion and have the sighting happen in my own back yard.
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This is a mountain lion sighting alert to all the folks living
in University Heights and on the West Side of Iowa City
near Finkbine Golf Course. If we did not write a Letter to
the Editor, there was no other way to alert the residents of
University Heights and Iowa City.
My wife and I were taking our usual evening hike, on
October 30th, at 9:30 P.M. past Kinnick Stadium, past the
football practice field and the baseball field to the road that
cuts south up past the University of Iowa Hospital overflow
parking area and on up to the University's Finkbine Golf
Course Clubhouse and past the University of Iowa Athletic
Club. This is a very well lighted route and we walk it
nightly with our large dog 'Loki'. Upon reaching ~lros~
Avenue we decided to walk back the same way, justf~ffi! i:'::)
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approximately three hundred feet away, a mountainlion ::;
standing in a perfectly well lighted area along the edge of
the sidewalk that passes very close to a thirty foot ravine to
the east. We had just walked past this area no more than
five minutes before and had seen nothing except a lot of
deer. The mountain lion was standing and was looking
down over this ravine. This ravine is one of the major deer
entry ways into the large woods that stands directly east of
Finkbine Golf Course and which extends into University
Heights and to our own home's backdoor. Deer can easily
follow a totally wooded environment from over thirty miles
away and deer follow this wooded area from as far as the
Amana Colonies, totally undetected. This mountain lion
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evidently followed the large numbers of deer that led him
directly into our neighborhood.
We could see this mountain lion perfectly as we had kept
walking toward it and we got as close as 200 feet away. It
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an exceptionally well lighted area, so we were able to -..j
easily and very clearly make out it's lion face, it's very
large body and it's three foot long, rope like tail. This
mountain lion looked directly at us for over a minute as we
continued to walk towards it, then it looked down into the
woods and then calmly descended down off the sidewalk
into the ravine and into the woods to the east. It
disappeared quickly into the woods and into the night. It
did not seem frightened of us and ifanything, it seemed
mostly annoyed that we were disrupting it's ability to stalk
the numerous deer that were moving all about that night.
I notified the Iowa City Police and the University of Iowa
Police the next morning. The University of Iowa Police
acted immediately and picked me up at my home so we
could look at the area of the sighting, look for cat tracks,
and for scat. The DNR was called but they indicated that
they could not act on this mountain lion sighting until
actual tracks were found. The University Police Officer and
I thought we might try looking for some tracks so we
proceeded into the woods. He was a very nice officer and
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he voluntarily showed me how to work his Teaser Gun just
incase something happened to him. This ended up being a
very short, non-productive investigative walk. Why does
the general public have to put itself at risk to look for tracks
or another sighting without being allowed any means of
protecting itself within the city limits, when this is the job
for the DNR or licensed, knowledgeable and approved
hunters designated and approved by the various City
Councils that should be hired to immediately investigate
and track any reported mountain lion sightings within our
communities!
Why is it that many of the mountain lion sightings that
have been reported, are going totally unreported to the
public that would publicly alert the general public? It is as
though mountain lion sightings are not publicized to the
general public because someone in authority feels that the
mountain lion sighting was incorrectly reported, or because
it was unsubstantiated, with either a lack of viewabl~ ~;
tracks, or without a second substantiated sighting or~t t~
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filming cheetah, lions and leopards for a film that I have
shown professionally across North America. I have seen
hundreds of animal kills in Africa by cats not much bigger
than a full grown mountain lion against prey much larger
than a human with total success every time. Why is there
no immediate and serious effort is being made to move
quickly on these reported mountain lion sightings with the
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seriousness that these reported sightings should demand
and which are occurring more frequently in our residential
areas? Kids play in the woods where this mountain lion w~
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sighting, especially those that have penetrated deep ~ithi~
our communities? Why does it seem that the first effort that
seems to be made by the police, and the DNR, is to
discredit the story, the circumstances and the people
making the reported mountain lion sightings? The DNR
and others who have discredited many of the reported
mountain lion sightings as non-credible, use as their
reasoning for not calling the reports credible the result of
preconceived thinking that mountain lions do not venture
deep into a city or a populated residential area, or that
mountain lions would not like to be seen in a well lighted
area on a walking path or that they would hear you coming
and would never let themselves be seen, or they would run
away before you could ever see them up close, or they are
too scared of people, or they would not stand in one place
that long without running away, or every mountain lion
leaves tracks for non-trained residents to easily find and
recognize or that if a mountain lion is present, it should
have been seen by others, etc." Who are these people
making these kinds of preconceived judgments. They truly
do not understand the adaptability, the intelligence and the
cunning of the mountain lion. Who is it that is provoking
fear into these mountain lions? No one is hunting them,
they have no natural enemies, why should they ever fear
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man, let alone a woman or a child? Mountain lions are
developing a greater boldness, they are learning quickly,
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residents living in our residential areas from the risks of -J
having mountain lions living amongst us and I see a denial
of this potential threat by the way the DNR and some city
agencies are responding to these mountain lion sightings
and reports. Anyone that says, "Well, no one has been
killed yet," as an excuse for not taking the infiltration of
mountain lions into our community as a very serious threat
should not be re-elected to their leadership positions in this
community. They are totally out of touch with what is
happening with a very smart and a potentially very
dangerous species of cat that is growing in numbers every
year and which is becoming much smarter than most of the
people who are trying to understand, study and manage it.
This growing concern is making outdoor recreational life in
this city more difficult and more dangerous to enjoy
without fearing constantly for the safety of our children and
our loved ones.
Why is it that the DNR is not sharing all of the possible
repercussions and consequences to our communities for
allowing and having mountain lions traveling into our cities
most vulnerable population areas? Mountain lions are
predatory animals with extreme cunning and extreme
physical strength. A full grown mountain lion could easily
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kill a man the size of Iowa's Robert Gallery, the nation's
best offensive football lineman last year. They can jump
vertically as high as 18 feet and jump as far as thirty feet in
one leap. They are the greatest jumpers of all of the world's
cats. They can hit their victims with an impact force greater
than the best pro linebacker. Most victims do not recover
fast enough to ward off any further life threatening attacks.
Mountain lions do not belong in our neighborhoods and the
DNR and our city leaders should start acting like this is a
bad idea before someone gets killed. If mountain lion
sightings are reported within the city limits, State and city
agencies should immediately get there best trackers and
hunters out to that location and proceed to take care of
business the proper way in order to protect our citi~s, niit
try to discredit the mountain lion sighting. 5~ q C)
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Both Hickory Hill Park on the east side and now Uti1Y@rsijy .=:!J
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Heights on the west side of Iowa City have now hadf ~ ~ '
mountain lion sightings. Why is it that the huge deci ~
population located deep within our community is not being
seriously addressed in order to reduce it's numbers by any
possible means and at any cost. The huge deer population
is large enough now that even the predatory mountain lions
are following the large deer populations deep into our
community to do what the DNR and our community
leaders should have done long ago to drastically reduce the
deer numbers. Also, why are the mountain lions not hunted
down and killed who are stalking the deer deep into our
cities and who are showing no fear of our residents? In all
of our National Parks, these types of predatory animals that
show no fear of people and make it to the camp grounds
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and lodging areas, are the very first to be hunted down and
killed. Where is this cities urgency to step in to make sure
that mountain lion sightings within our city limits are taken
seriously, investigated quickly so that we can all be sure
that we do not yet have a mountain lion that is still lurking
within our city limits who might eventually start stalking
our children as they walk to school or as they walk over to
a friends house, or attack a jogger on a remote wooded
pathway?
Why do our citizens have to have their lives put at great
potential risk of being attacked by a mountain lion on our
cities walking, biking, and jogging trails that are located in
or near many of the forested recreational areas bec~e t~
DNR and city agencies are unable to deal with this ~ipg
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critically important issue that needs urgent addressiftg noW
before any of the lives of any of our citizens are harmed
and it needs to be dealt with in a well-planned approach
that becomes a community wide effort that does not make
residents feel stupid for reporting a mountain lion sighting
near their home that they voluntarily report because they
see it as a serious threat to their own safety, their families
safety, and to their neighborhood's safety. The DNR better
start evaluating it's policies for addressing the increasing
growth in the numbers of mountain lions in this state and
how they are going to keep this State's residents safe and
how they plan to keep the mountain lion's numbers
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properly managed and how they are going to keep all of
Iowa's mountain lions fearful of mankind.
Jim and Margie Ebert
University Heights
Jim Ebert
30 Prospect Place
Iowa City, Iowa 52246
319-621-6361
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From: Kathryn Johansen
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:30 AM
To: 'tristand277@hotmail.com'
Cc: .City Council
Subject: FW:
Dear Tristan:
Thank you for your e-mail message to the City Council. Council members
do not receive their e-mails directly and your message will be forwarded
to them as official correspondence. If you wish to communicate with
Council members, please contact them individually. Council member
names and phone numbers are listed on our City website. Go to
www.icgov.org. Click the blue link for Departments then select City
Council.
Thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Kathi Johansen
Administrative Assistant
to the City Manager
-----Original Message-----
From: tristan dobrian [mailto:tristand277@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 9:45 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject:
Dear Iowa City Council,
My name is Tristan Dobrian, and I am a junior at City High School. For
my
State and local Government class, I am doing a project on voting permits
for
17 year olds which would allow them to vote in school board elections.
Your
opinions about this would be very helpful to me, and I would appreciate
it
if you could please answer the following question - Are you in favor of
allowing 17 year olds to vote in school board election, and if you are,
what
would it take for this to successfully pass a vote?
Thank you very much for your time.
Tristan Dobrian
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From: Kathryn Johansen
Sent: Monday, November 01,20048:21 AM
To: 'shawn-froberg@uiowa.edu'
Cc: 'City Council
Subject: RE:
Good morning, Shawn:
Thank you for your e-mail message to Mayor Lehman. Mayor Lehman and
Council members do not receive their e-mails directly. Your message will
be forwarded to them as official correspondence. If you wish to
communicate with Mayor Lehman or any of the Council members, please
contact them individually. Council member names and phone numbers are
listed on our City website. Go to www.icgov.org. Click the blue link
for Departments then select City Council.
Thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Kathi Johansen
Administrative Assistant
to the City Manager
-----Original Message-----
From: shawn-froberg@uiowa.edu [mailto:shawn-froberg@uiowa.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:29 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject:
Dear Mayor Lehman,
I am a journalism student at the University of Iowa
and
working on an assignment for my journalistic reporting and writing
class.
After talking with Captain Widmer at the Iowa City Police Department
about the
donation for the new K-9 unit I learned that you are person to talk to
about
the fund raising aspect of the project. I have a few questions and
don't need
much of your time, if you want to set up a meeting for some time on
Monday (I
am out of town for the weekend) that would be great. If you are too
busy
that's fine I can also e-mail you the questions.
Thanks for your help, Shawn Froberg
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From: Linda Flowers [Iflowers@jpnlaw.com]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:42 AM
To: cou nci/@iowa-city,org
Subject: Beautification
How long, how long must we look at the weeds and trash up and down the
median
between 2nd Street in Coralville to Melrose. The grass cutters will
only
cut one
row on the edge of the curb. The rest lS left to grow very tall with
weeds
and
trash that blows by. We've looked at that mess every day all summer,
and
even
now going into fall they will not make two more passes with the lawn
mower
(in
some places one would get it) . I do wish somebody in authority would
drive
over
there and look. The wild grass at the ends of the medians is also ugly.
That's
my two bits, have a great day.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Flowers
Coralville (driving back and to for work in IC)
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Marian Karr
From: Kathryn Johansen
Sent: Friday, November 05, 20044:43 PM
To: .City Council
Subject: FW: Mormon Trek Blvd plantings
.m.Original Message----.
From: Terry Robinson
Sent: Friday, November 05,20044:15 PM
To: 'lfloOwers@jpnlaw,com'
Cc: Terry Trueblood
Subject: Mormon Trek Blvd plantings
Ms. Flowers,
I understand your feelings regarding the median on Mormon Trek Blvd, It may help you to know the plants in the
median are not random weeds that are being allowed to grow. They are various native prairie plants that were selected to
survive in the harsh environment between the two lanes of traffic. This is part of an agreernent reached between the
University and Iowa City when the responsibility for ownership and maintenance of the area was switched from the
University to Iowa City. The plants and grasses are beginning to establish themselves. We will be adding some prairie
flowers next spring to bring more color to the area.
Regarding the one mower pass on either side of the median. This is something I have directed the crew who mows the
area to do. It is not that they just won't do more. Last year as the grasses grew they hung over the curb too far and were
creating a hazard for vehicles. We decided to do one pass to keep the edge clean but still attempt to maintain the prairie
plants in the center of the strip, As for the trash, you are correct I have noticed it also and it is on our list of cleanup tasks.
Just this morning before your e-mail was forwarded to me, I directed my weekend staff to work on it Saturday morning
before the football game and on Sunday. Most of the area should be cleaned up by Monday afternoon. I hope this helps
you understand what is happening in the area.
Sincerely,
Terry Robinson
Superintendent of Parks & Forestry.
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From: Jeff Davidson
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 4:53 PM
To: 'IARXPHD@aol.com'
Cc: 'City Council; 'City Manager's Office; Anissa Williams
Subject: FW: (no subject)
Hello Andreski family. Your message below was forwarded to me for response. It would be desireable to have a
protected left turn arrow for southbound to eastbound left turns as you have suggested. The problem is that there is no
separate dedicated left turn lane for this movement. Left turns are made out of a combined left/through lane. It is not
possible to make this lane left turns only, because we need the traffic carrying capacity from this lane for both lefts and
throughs. We have evaluated having a protected movement for southbound lefts and throughs and stopping all other
movements, but this introduced much more delay to the overall intersection than the existing arrangement where
southbound lefts must yield to oncoming traffic before making the turn,
The solution is to construct a separate left turn lane at the intersection for these movements. This project is in the City's
capital improvement program, but has not yet moved high enough up the priority list to be funded and implemented.
The City Council considers this annually when they approve the annual City budget. This intersection is not a
particularly high crash location; it ranks 47th on the list of high collision intersections in the community. We will continue
to keep an eye on the collision rate in case there is significant change before we have the opportunity to construct the
left turn lane and have protected left turns.
Thank you for your message. Jeff Davidson, Traffic Engineering Planning.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Helling
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 I :23 PM
To: Jeff Davidson
Subject: FW: (no subject)
Jeff, Please respond and cc Council. Thanks. --Dale
-.---Original Message-----
From: IARXPHD@aol.com [mailto:IARXPHD@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 I :21 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: (no subject)
Dear City Council:
Please tell what the process is to request a left turn traffic control signal and at the corner of Benton and Mormon Trek.
This is a dangerous intersection with many collisions due to the lack of this feature.
Thank you,
The Andreski family
43 Denbigh Dr.
248-3159
11/8/2004
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From: IARXPHO@aol.com
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5: 19 PM
To: Jeff-Davidson@iowa-city.org
Cc: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: Re: FW: (no subject)
I would be curious where this intersection ranks in terms of accidents when you look at the rate of accidents per cars
turning, I would bet it ranks higher than 47th. I would like to obtain a) the ranking and the methodology of that ranking
b) the prioritization list that includes this project.
I also have concerns with people gunning though when there is a srnall space and the high number of pedestrians who
use this intersection.
I understand the budget process, etc. I would like to know what we as citizens can do to address issues such as these,
I feel strongly that this is a tragedy waiting to happen, and I hope that the council can address this issue in a timely
manner.
Thanks again,
Mike and Melinda Andreski
43 Oenbigh Dr.
11/8/2004
Marian Karr r=r-
From: Rebecca Neades [rneades@iowacityarea.com]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 20042:02 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org; n beuter@ci.coralville.ia.us; clair. mekota@northlibertyiowa.org;
robbertg2003@yahoo.com; m bah I@southslope,net; james. moody@northlibertyiowa.org;
tasalm@terracon.com; joh n. souku p@northlibertyiowa.org; BrianJames(E-mail); ElliottB53
@aol. com (E-mail); Ernest Lehman (E-mail); HenryHerwig (E-mail); Jim L. Fausett (E-mail);
John Weihe(E-mail); Regenia D. Bailey (E-mail)
Subject: Invitation to Legislative Leadership Forum
Dear Mayors & Council Members,
The Iowa City/Cedar Rapids Technology Corridor has much to be proud of
and
we'd like to share it with you!
The Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Area Chambers of Commerce would like to
invite you to attend a Legislative Leadership Forum on Friday, November
19,
at 3 p.m. in Iowa Hall on the Kirkwood Community College campus.
The event will include the panel discussion by members of the state
leadership, as well as timely information about the Corridor area. In
addition to legislators and elected officials from Linn and Johnson
counties, Chamber members will also be invited to attend the forum.
Please confirm your attendance with Rebecca Neades at the Iowa City Area
Chamber at 319/337-9637 or bye-mail at rneades@iowacityarea.com
We look forward to seeing you on November 19.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Neades
Vice President Government Affairs
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce
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From: capscomics@aol.com 1.;;;; r
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1 :55 PM
To: Counci 1@lowa-city.org
Subject: Brookland Park Drive parking change
To the members of the council;
I received a letter from the City indicating that it planned to change the availability of parking on Brookland Park Drive,
on the block I have called home for the past 18+ years. Our family did not receive a survey and this is my only
opportunity to register our viewpoint.
If this change occurs, it means that the nearest legitimate free public parking to my home will be about four blocks, an
eight minute walk from my home. I would like to think that friends, family, and others who are significant in my life and
the lives of my wife and children might be able to find us without the need to "hike in" to see us, The four of us who live
here are all licensed drivers with vehicles and as such do not have space to spare for our guests.
Of equally great concern, if not greater concern, is that according to the letter, "I would like to remind you that any
violation of these signs would be enforced by complaint only." This past summer, I, and several of my neighbors,
received parking tickets when parking as construction crews and city vehicles had done, in areas designated for us to
park in by the city while our street was being paved. Members of the neighborhood, denied access to their own
driveways, were ticketed while city vehicles and construction vehicles, grossly illegally parked, were not cited. We had
in place on our dash boards placards indicating that we had special permission to park due to our circumstances, yet
still at times, received citations, I went so far as to call the police and ask that they send an officer to review the
situation. I pointed out my citation and half a dozen city and construction vehicles guilty of the same offense. The
officer shrugged and indicated I might fight the citation and win but he was unwilling to enforce the same ordinance
against the cities own vehicles or the construction crew, Given the value of my time and the demonstration of the city's
"even handedness and notion of fair play," I paid my ticket and dropped the issue.
Of what value is enforcement if it is not done evenly and consistently? Are we encouraging people to disregard our
statutes and ordinances in the hope that they will get away with it so long as no one complains? What if all of our rules
were enforced on a complaint only basis? This exercise of poor precedent is a bad example to my children and those
around us. Make the laws and enforce them, continually, vigorously, or if it is not worth enforcing, do not enact the
change.
The change you are proposing is simply another way in which quiet citizens of the area have an opportunity to suffer
poor and arbitrary treatment at the hand of the city and I must raise my voice against it.
Sincerely,
David Caplan
520 Brookland Park Drive
Iowa City, Iowa
358-0632
11/8/2004
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From: rudi-colloredo@uiowa,edu
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:07 PM
To: mikeodonnell@iowa-city,org
Cc: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: Crosswalk on River
Dear Mike
Here is the message that I sent earlier. Could you confirm that you got
this
by replying to me at chesca-colloredo@uiowa.edu, just so I know that I
got
your email address right? Thanks and thanks for helping push this idea
forward.
Yours, Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld
----- Forwarded message from chesca-colloredo@uiowa.edu -----
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:07:25 -0500
From: chesca-colloredo@uiowa.edu
Reply-To: chesca-colloredo@uiowa.edu
Subject: School crosswalks
To: "council@iowa-city.org" <council@iowa-city.org>
Dear City Council Members
I am interested in discussing the possibility of improving the signage
at
school crossings. As the parent of two elementary-age school children I
am
constantly amazed to watch cars speed past as kids wait patiently at the
marked crossing place on River Street on their way to school. The cars
seem
unaware that they should stop for children waiting to cross. This is
particularly true in the morning when people are cutting through River
Street
on their way to work at the hospitals. Even the school buses go right
on
through the pedestrian crossing without stopping to let the walking
children
through. I have even tried stepping out into the street and waving a
car down
to get it to stop so the kids can cross only to have the driver shrug
his
hands at me indicating that he did not understand why he should stop.
There is very limited parking at our local school and kids are strongly
encouraged to walk to and from school. We have one crossing guard at
another
location but several cross walks that get heavy child traffic. I would
like
the Council to consider placing some kind of signage to tell drivers
that they
are expected/required to stop for pedestrians. Ideally, such a change
should
be impleneted at all school crossing sites without a patrol.
I have seen some apparently effective signs (State Law Yield to
Pedestrians in
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Crosswalk) on the crosswalk between the University Hospital and the new
parking structure on Newton Road. I use that crossing quite regularly
and am
able to step onto the pedestrian walk and have approaching cars slow and
stop. I have also noticed that all buses stop for pedestrians. When I
enquired to the Saftey Patrol Officer about these signs I was told that
they
were on University property and not something that could deployed
without City
Council approval.
In doing a little background research on this issue I found a report
that
indicates other cities, including some university towns and Cedar
Rapids, have
found these signs to be helpful. The Cedar Rapids test did not include
any
school crossing areas and were all at intersections. The report is
available
on the web at http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/reports/pedyield.pdf
I am not sure what the correct procedure is for trying to get a change
in city
signage, but would appreciate you considering the issue or allowing
myself and
two other concerned parents to raise the issue at a Council meeting.
Thanks for your time and efforts on behlf of those of us who live in
Iowa City.
Yours,
Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld
227 Ferson Ave.
Iowa City, 52246
341 9799
----- End forwarded message -----
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From: Joe Fowler
Sent: Tuesday, November 09,20044:18 PM
To: 'baller@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu'
cc: 'City Council; 'city Manager's Office; Ron Logsden
Subject: RE: ICT buses & noise pollution
Dear Mr. Baller,
Thank you for your letter regarding the Iowa City buses. Brakes on the
buses are a maintenance item that is constantly being addressed. Brake
pad suppliers have been changed in the past and the brake noise has been
reduced considerably. Every bus receives preventive maintenance monthly
and drivers report any malfunction daily. I can assure you that when
brake noise becomes an issue it is addressed but all brake noise can not
be eliminated.
Thank you for your past support of our system and I hope that you will
continue to support it in the future. If you notice a problem with a
bus in the future you can e-mail me and I forward the information to our
maintenance supervisor for attention. If you can include the bus number
in future correspondence it will be very helpful.
Sincerely,
Joe Fowler
Director Parking & Transit
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Baller [mailto:baller@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:05 PM
To: council@iowa-city.org
Subject: ICT buses & noise pollution
Dear Council, I am a huge fan of Iowa City Transit, the city's bus
system,
and I use it to commute to and from work everyday. I do have one
complaint, however. The noise created by the brakes on almost every bus
I
have been on is absolutely deafening. The problem is so bad that I am
tempted to wear ear plugs on my daily commute. In addition, I own a
home
that is located on a bus route where the bus regularly applies its
brakes. This means that at the top and bottom of nearly every hour my
home
is bombarded by the deafening scrawl of bus brakes!! Can anything be
done? I see two solutions: 1. better maintain the brakes (raise bus
fares
if needed); or 2. stop buying brake pads that screech when worn (the
maintenance folks obviously ignore the screech anyway).
Thank you for your attention. Sincerely,
Rob Baller
3412 Arbor Drive
Iowa City, IA 52245
Rob Baller
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Uni versity of Iowa
140 Seashore Hall W.
Iowa City, IA 52242-1401 1
phone: (319) 335-2485
fax: ( 319) 335-2509
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Marian Karr
From: Rob Baller [baller@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:58 AM
To: Joe Fowler
Cc: 'City Council; 'City Manager's Office; Ron Logsden
Subject: RE: leT buses & noise pollution
Dear Mr. Fowler, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I just wanted
to
communicate that in my opinion the problem is still a serious one, but I
am
sure you are doing the best you can with limited resources.
By the way, electric-powered buses would be wonderful because my
understanding is that the electric motors themselves act as brakes.
Should
the opportunity arise to trade-in the old ones, you would have my full
support! Just my 2 cents on electric buses.
Have a good day. Sincerely, Rob Baller
At 04:17 PM ll/ 9/2004, Joe Fowler wrote:
>Dear Mr. Baller,
>
>Thank you for your letter regarding the Iowa City buses. Brakes on the
>buses are a maintenance item that is constantly being addressed. Brake
pad
>suppliers have been changed in the past and the brake noise has been
reduced
>considerably. Every bus receives preventive maintenance monthly and
drivers
>report any malfunction daily. I can assure you that when brake noise
>becomes an issue it is addressed but all brake noise can not be
eliminated.
>
>
>Thank you for your past support of our system and I hope that you will
>continue to support it in the future. If you notice a problem with a
bus in
>the future you can e-mail me and I forward the information to our
>maintenance supervisor for attention. If you can include the bus
number in
>future correspondence it will be very helpful.
>
>Sincerely,
>Joe Fowler
>Director Parking & Transit
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Baller [mailto:baller@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]
>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:05 PM
>To: council@iowa-city.org
>Subject: ICT buses & noise pollution
>
>
>Dear Council, I am a huge fan of Iowa City Transit, the city's bus
system,
>and I use it to commute to and from work everyday. I do have one
>complaint, however. The noise created by the brakes on almost every
bus I
>have been on is absolutely deafening. The problem is so bad that I am
>tempted to wear ear plugs on my daily commute. In addition, I own a
1
home
>that lS located on a bus route where the bus regularly applies its
>brakes. This means that at the top and bottom of nearly every hour my
home
>is bombarded by the deafening scrawl of bus brakes'! Can anything be
>done? I see two solutions: 1. better maintain the brakes (raise bus
fares
>if needed); or 2. stop buying brake pads that screech when worn (the
>maintenance folks obviously ignore the screech anyway).
>Thank you for your attention. Sincerely,
>
>Rob Baller
>3412 Arbor Drive
>Iowa City, IA 52245
>
>
>Rob Baller
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Sociology
>University of Iowa
>140 Seashore Hall W.
>Iowa City, IA 52242-1401
>
>phone: (319 ) 335-2485
>fax: ( 319) 335-2509
Rob Baller
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Iowa
140 Seashore Hall W.
Iowa City, IA 52242-1401
phone: ( 319) 335-2485
fax: (319 ) 335-2509
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The Johnson County AARP Chapter 1816 would like to invite you and
your fellow Iowa City City Council members to our annual AARP Holiday
party.
This event will take place on Monday, December 6th in the Assembly
Room at the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center located at 28 S. Linn
Street in Iowa City. Starting time will be 2 P.M. We plan entertainment,
refreshments, door prizes and an opportunity to join in the Holiday spirit
with an optional donation of a gift for our Home Delivered Meals
customers or an item of canned goods for our local Crises Center. Last
but not least, we are promised a visit from Santa Claus.
We hope that you can join us.
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AARP Coming events in 2005:
January 3rd ---- A program on Medicare and Prescription Drugs and you.
February 7th ---- United Way in our Community
March 7th ----- Representatives of the State Legislature will be on hand
April 4th ---- AARP Annual Meeting: Election of Officers for the coming year.
Program: Public Power