Mall parking lot. I showed them this e-mail from Bill Canton that was reaching out, you
know, the City Council's direction to neighborhood associations. And of the 52 people in
the room, besides me, none of them had heard of this, you know. So the communication
to our neighborhood failed to happen. None of them worked on the online survey. Here's
an existing facility near our neighborhood, and it's the Starbuck's, you know, the service
window is right here, visible from the street. And I asked my neighbors, does that blue
car or that red car or the service window bother you more than this parking lot over here
with all those cars, or this gigantic parking lot in front of Walmart? And they said, no,
this doesn't bother us at all. Here's an example where we took the zoning into account.
So this is the Taco Bell and there's a Simmons Bank ATM right there, and that -- that
faces the street, so -- but pretend the street is not there. There's R-2 property across --
this is the R-2 property, Hickman High School parking lot. We don't -- my neighbors do
not think we need that special screening. It's expensive, that it's going to screen the view
of the parking from an ATM. That doesn't make sense to us. It should be the actual use
of the property and not the zoning. This is an ATM in front of Hy-Vee. This is real close
to my neighborhood. And I say, here -- here's an ATM facing the street, so if this were to
be built under the new proposed regulations, you would have a wall something like that
that would, you know, block the view. Imagine you're the police officer driving by, and you
see a wall versus the ATM. And my thought was, you know, like some other people have
said, someone is going to come up there and rob you at the ATM. And we had senior
members of law enforcement live in my neighborhood, and they told the group how, yeah,
that happens. There's crime at the drive-up window, but there's also the people who steal
the whole ATM right off the pad and take it someplace and cut it open. I'm surprised that
those folks are not here tonight praising this idea of building a wall between the ATM and
the police officer on the street. I did reach out to law enforcement to ask about this, and I
got a response from Assistant Chief of Police, Brian Richenberger, and then replied back,
I agree with the above statement. I'm not going to read it all to you, but his -- his -- the
statement at the bottom, In my opinion, protecting residential neighborhoods from
drive-up service window impacts is good, but it's unnecessary in commercial areas like
the new Culver's. And I think that is the real key. We're trying to protect neighborhoods.
We're trying to protect people's homes. We don't need to protect an R-2 parking lot at
Hickman, or the R-1 bank -- or not -- the R-1 church next to the Central Bank on West
Broadway. We -- protecting people's homes is good. I went through these things line by
line. The R-1 and R-2 residential use as opposed to the zoning, the traffic impact
analysis, and I took the time and explained. I'm an engineer; I'm a board-certified
professional traffic operations engineer, and I explained how traffic impact analysis are
expensive and sometimes they're very valuable, I agree, and sometimes they're not. If
you have a small traffic generator in the middle of a big existing parking lot, having a
