closed #200553
Inaccessible Parking
100 N Lincoln St
- Case Date:
- 1/26/2025
Marked accessible parking spot in a city parking lot is blocked by plowed snow
Marked accessible parking spot in a city parking lot is blocked by plowed snow
Accessibility issue. Snow was clearly deliberately plowed into the accessible parking space.
The wheelchair accessible van parking spot on Morton at eighth Street is where I usually park to attend CCA meetings. Ironically, it is filled with snow. The snow plows seem to use the accessible parking spaces as snow storage spots. Unacceptable and inaccessible!
The only accessible parking spot is diagonal and tucked into a corner, leaving the blue lined area for wheelchair ramp deployment much smaller and awkwardly shaped than usual. Also, there's a 15 minute time limit on the spot, despite it being the only accessible spot in the lot. I'm not sure how someone could deploy a wheelchair ramp, exit their vehicle, and turn their wheelchair while parked in this spot if the adjacent parking spots are occupied. I could be completely wrong about this, but I thought that accessible spots were supposed to have an extra 2 hours on top of any time constraints on the non-accessible spots in the same lot. The other spots in this same lot all have a 15 minute limit, so shouldn't this spot have a 2 hour and 15 minute limit? It seems really limiting to only have one accessible parking spot in the lot and have it be an extremely tight fit and restrict it to only 15 minutes. This parking spot is for a coffeeshop where college students regularly work on their laptops - if someone needs to use the accessible parking spot, doesn't the 15 minute limit prevent them from being able to work or study in this coffeeshop like others get to do?
Flexepark lot here has no accessible parking
There is an abandoned vehicle parked in the street at 908 S. Washington St. It is a blue Volkswagen Tiguan with flat tires and expired plates.
Blocked handicap parking aisle in the west side parking lot of Switchyard Park off Rogers.
around 1919 south sussex the rain gutter is clogged up with a bunch of sticks and branches. probably needs to be cleared out.
Mulched leaves can be emptied between the basketball court and the sidewalk behind the Lutheran church at East Third and Smith road. Mulch will be used at their garden nearby. A few loads of leaves were put there last winter. The leaves will be moved with a bucket loader. The leaf pickup driver in Park Ridge this week was agreeable if his supervisor approves.
The Lutheran church on east Third street has enough mulched leaves for this week. Thank you for the timely action. We will let you know if more are needed after the first batch is distributed.