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Fwd: 35 Hyde Street - driveway allowance
From : Amanda Tucker Fri, Jan 07, 2022 02:22 PM
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Subject : Fwd : 35 Hyde Street -
driveway allowance
To : Susanna Combs
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Please upload the attached and email below for 35 Hyde.
Thank y7ou,
Amanda
From: "Achim Bergmann" <achim@bergmannzwerdling.com>
TO: "Amanda Tucker" <amanda.tucker@saratoga-springs.org>
CC: "Michael Tuck" <mtuck@balzertuck.com>
Sent: Friday; January 7, 2022 2:18:32 PM
Su bject: 35 Hyde Street - driveway allowance
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Dea r Zon i ng Boa rd,
In advance of the ZBA meeting on which our application is
scheduled, we wanted to share the attached pictures of
Hyde Street from the 2019 winter. We deal with the high
school students using our two-block street and surrounding
streets as the overflow parking lot for the high school since
there are not enough student parking spots at the school.
This creates a dangerous situation for all of us as you can
see from the pictures. It is at its core a public safety matter.
Previous public officials, police, the school superintendent
and resource officers have all been alerted to this situation
without much action to solve the issue. My wife has worked
diligently on this issue since 2018 yet it still presents a
challenge with the school saying it's a city street so it's not
their jurisdiction and the city saying it's high school kids so
it's a high school issue.
We are requesting the driveway allowance due to this
situation which is also compounded throughout the school
year by:
1. Snow plowing
2. Trash removal days
3. Street cleaning days
4. Leaf pick up days
5. Parking restrictions for alternate side parking beginning
at 8am were installed to deter high school kids from
parking on our street, yet they are rarely enforced when
the police are called to come ticket. Kids begin parking
around 7:20am.
When we purchased the property at 35 Hyde Street in
2015, there were no alternate side parking signs nor was
there an issue with the high school students parking on our
street. At that time, they parked on Joseph/Empire Street
behind the school in an area designated as high school
annex parking. That has since been closed down leaving
students to park on residential streets - mostly Hyde, Ash,
Birch and parts of Persimmon and Joseph.
Both our driveways are pre-existing conditions and we are
asking to keep both yet reduce the overall size. We feel it is
a reasonable request and inherently better than parking
residential cars on the street given the totality of cars that
do park on our street daily.
While our children are 11 and 12, we anticipate in a few
years we will have another family vehicle for them to be
parked on the second driveway. In addition, the driveway in
front the garage is not deep enough to fit an average
vehicle since it would block the sidewalk, so keeping both
driveways allows for us to plan for the possibility of an
aging parent moving in with us.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Attached are a
few pictures for your review.
Achim Bergmann
202-423-3038
achim@bergmannzwerdling.com
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