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were no adverse effects then children and day care workers should not be wandering through her property in vehicle's paths. She said if there were no adverse effects then she should not have had to post no parking signs, nor consider turning 30 feet of her front yard into concrete (a previously proposed mitigation), which would not be appreciated by her neighbors. Ms. Dowling said even though the increase of pedestrian and vehicle traffic is incremental, it does have a cumulative adverse effect which is inconsistent with the permit. Ms. Dowling said reducing the day care home from large to small would decrease traffic and allow a reduction of children running through their property. Ms. Dowling said she and her husband knew they couldn't have the whole loaf of bread - the safety and welfare of their home preserved with no day care traffic on their property. She said this was one case where half a loaf was better than none. She said all they were asking for was what they were entitled to under the permit. Mayor Hartnett called upon the respondents. Ken Sartain, 743 Canyon Road, said that he and his wife had lived at 743 Canyon Road for fourteen years, and distributed pictures of the driveway as it appeared ten years ago. Mr. Sartain said that he and his wife, Michele, were appearing before the Council to ask the Council "to allow Michele's large family day care to continue as it is." Mr. Sartain said he knew the Council had received volumes of material regarding this issue and he would confine his comments to those issues "directly applicable to the conditions set forth in the permit." Mr. Sartain referred to Mr. Wolfskill's video tape, and said it focused on their (Sartain's) easement and it was "fraught with misrepresentation, omissions, duplications and misinformation." He said it was misleading. Mr. Sartain said "there have been cases when people have parked on the easement. I think the video shows almost all of the very few incidences in the past year and half. Not all of them were day care related, and they were there for only a very short time, minutes, two minutes, one minute, thirty seconds." Mr. Sartain described one incident where a car had stalled, and after trying to get it started for ten minutes, he pushed it off the easement. Mr. Sartain said the appellants refer to 24 round trips per day by day care parents, but it really was more like 24 round trips per week. He said almost half the cars in the video were unrelated to day care activity, such as personal visits and after day care hours. He said sometimes people do not see the posted No Parking signs, or they are new to the home. Mr. Sartain said he and previous neighbors at 751 Canyon Road had no problems, and it had always been an "easy and friendly matter just to ask people 'would you move your car?' No problem. Now the WolfskilVDowlings want to change the rules. In deference to them we have been diligent in telling everyone not to park there." He referred to the letter he had sent to the day care parents (included in the Council packet) asking them not to park on the easement. He said he knew "of no incidence were the neighbors were directly inconvenienced by our use of the easement." He said he didn't understand why Ms. Dowling feels it is necessary to REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING '¡'¡INUTE BOOK NO. 55 MAY 19, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 350 PAGE 22