City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2013 02 26

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1 Meredyth Muth From:Bev Beaufait [bbeaufa@beaufait.com] Sent:Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:35 AM To:Malcolm Fleming; Robert Muckle; Hank Dalton; Jay Keany; Susan Loo; Ronald Sackett; Frost Yarnell Cc:City Council Subject:February 26 Study Meeting Dear City Council, I am here today, February 26, because of a continuous “vehicle abandoned/parking” problem on West Elm Street and West Sycamore Lane, that the Louisville Police cannot/willnot enforce with our current parking laws, listed in my Post Script. I first reported a neighbor’s truck parked on West Sycamore Street for more than 7 days in March, 2012. His truck had an open back in which he would put his “trash”, which all could see. This neighbor would move his vehicle temporarily, when told by Code Enforcement. However, this neighbor would repark his vehicle in the same spot he was told not to park in a few weeks later. This continued off and on with his parking his vehicle leaving it parked/abandoned through December, 2012, as the law in my P.S. was not enforced. Our neighborhood also had a problem with a commercial vendor (Mr. Rooter) trying to operate his company out of our neighborhood at West Elm Street and West Sycamore Lane, at times right next to the fire hydrant. This started in May, 2012 and continued through January, 2013. These commercials vehicles come early in the morning or late at night to “swap out vehicles”, as the pictures show. This vendor does not care about our City parking laws. In my URL address to you, I have 8 months worth of pictures showing this problem, which also includes a MiniCooper parking problem. I made web pages for full and in color viewing of all the pictures I took each month from June, 2012 to January, 2013. There are 9 separate links for each months worth of pictures. http://www.beaufait.com/louisvillecars.html I have 5 e-mails from Bruce Goodman, the Chief of Police, showing he did not help much with this parking/abandon vehicle problem. In fact, in my humble opinion, his actions/non-actions aggrevated the situation. These e-mails show that he is frustrated with my valid parking complaints about the same vehicles over and over again for months on end. His responses to me, at times, have been less than professional, in my humble opinion, as shown in the e-mails from him to me over the months. Chief Bruce told me in no uncertain terms that: “For the Louisville Police Department, the matter of an abandoned vehicle is closed”, as shown in his e-mail to me dated May 25, 2012. I complained about this continual abandoned vehicle situation directly to the Code Enforcement department in July, 2012 to William Kingston, who tried their best to help keep this parking situation under control. They eventually gave up. In an e-mail to me on December 17, 2012, Chief Bruce stated this to me: “In Louisville, parking on the street is not against the law and the Police Department will not pester people because you do not like the appearance of parked cars in your neighborhood. I’m sorry that your disagree, but the Police Department will not take action for this and similar parking issues." Chief Bruce has also used inaction about the abandoned vehicles, because I complained too much during the fall of 2012. 36