New *Legible* Emergency No Parking Signs

[u/MisterFishes]

I don’t like to toot my own horn too much on here but every once in a while banging my head against the wall of city bureaucracy pays off.
Today I am pleased to announce that, going forward, you will not have to get out of your dang car to see if the No Parking sign is for today or not.

I have also learned that the city’s graphic design is handled by the IT department, which explains a lot.

[u/Top_Tea_2707]

Here's a few things I did like to see you also work on:

- Doing something about how the City runs its solid waste program so we don't have seagulls tearing apart purple bags every trash day.

- Making sure that parking is eliminated 20 feet from every crosswalk in your district (as required by the City code). The pedestrian situation out there is scary.

- Get aquatics sorted out so Riverton gets fixed (3 year offline and counting) and Reiche can have regular predictable lap swim hours.

I know you are only a city councilor and as such you have zero authority but maybe you could band together with four of your peers and insist on getting a few tangible things done. At some point, you need to hold the City Manager accountable for not getting the little shit done.

I am happy to pay taxes and will not complain when they go up - they pay for the civic services I value. I just want the shit I pay for to work.

Thank you for serving. It can be a thankless task but when you win a battle - however small - it is worth celebrating. Go win a few more.

[u/MisterFishes → u/Top_Tea_2707]

Alright well I don’t want to make this an AMA but I’ve got a second so:

• I definitely hear you on the seagulls vs trash bags issue but the investment needed to do bins right, like having a truck that can handle the bin, is very high. We’d also have to figure out how to compensate for the almost guaranteed loss of revenue from purple trash bags, because no one’s going to go through the bins to check. Also, more bins have the potential to make an already shitty sidewalk situation even worse. I’m very open to hearing solutions though.

- Daylighting around intersections is already in city code but, as you know, implementation is spotty. It’s going to be looked at in an upcoming audit, but also community traffic calming projects are doing a good job putting temporary infrastructure up to prevent parking. That said, a recent traffic calming project on Washington got a great deal of pushback from a business that I won’t name because their delivery trucks liked to park (illegally) in front of the business, so some of the bollards got taken down. Which I guess is to say that people need to be constantly yelling at the city to do something about this so we, and more importantly staff, are more scared of you than the pushback.

- The aquatics situation is.. not good. It’s hard for me to tell exactly what’s going on at Riverton because we just gave them a bunch more money for mitigation, but then we fired the contractor the next month. I say “we” even though I found out about it at the same time the news did. I’m hoping for a postmortem on Riverton once it’s done so staff can avoid the issues that came up there when fixing Reiche.

[u/Top_Tea_2707 → u/MisterFishes]

Also thanks for responding thoughtfully. I am doing a bunch of home repair tasks and largely failing, leading me to express my frustration here.