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Longtime resident asks for parking exception on Plymouth Avenue where bike lane removed curbside parking
Summary
A lifelong East Grand Rapids resident requested an exemption to a city bike-lane parking ban to allow on-street parking in front of his house at 1065 Plymouth Road SE, saying adding a driveway would damage a longtime garden.
Hillary Snell, who said he has lived in East Grand Rapids for 60 years and lives at 1065 Plymouth Road Southeast, asked the commission during public comment on Aug. 18 to allow him to park in front of his house despite a bike-lane designation that removes curbside parking along that block.
Snell told commissioners he and his late wife planted and maintained a garden in the front yard and that his lot is too small to add an additional driveway without damaging the garden. "I'm a lifetime resident of the community...I feel I've been treated unfairly," Snell said, asking the commission for an exemption from the parking restriction to allow him to use the on-street space in front of his home.
He told the commission the designated bike lane on Plymouth Avenue from Argentina to Hall Street leaves no room for a driving lane, a parking lane and a separate bicycle lane, and that exceptions previously granted by the commission have favored vendors, not property owners.
The mayor reminded Snell of the three-minute public-comment limit and the commission received the comment; no vote or staff directive on an exemption was recorded in the Aug. 18 meeting.
