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tion in speed limit and a speed table to slow down cars. Still, for people like Jean Mayer, who has lived on Stanford Avenue since 1974, there were plenty of negative consequences. Mayer said the influx of people using Stanford has created a noise and at times a filthy environment near her home, with car alarms blaring at 6:15 a.m. and Dish visitors urinating and defecating near her fence. Most people, Mayer told the council that visitors don’t think of the area around the Dish as a residential neighborhood. “Most hikers are oblivious to their surrounding,� Mayer said. She was the only speaker who said she would welcome the transfer of Dish parking from her street to the Coyote Hill site, further from residential areas. Ruth Lowy, another speaker at the meeting, sympathized with Mayer’s dilemma but urged the city to find a middle ground between protecting residents and keeping access to the Dish unrestricted. “There should be some way to have a balance so that people are not restricted or terribly impeded from getting to the Dish by having parking very far away,� Lowy said. Stanford has already made some revisions to its parking plan. Initially, the proposal called for converting the parking spots on one side of Stanford from parallel to diagonal alignment, which would have required cars to back up over bike lanes as they exit. This plan was scrapped because of safety concerns. The university has already had two community meetings and revised its proposal to incorporate the Coyote Hill site. Jean McCown, Stanford’s vice president of communication, said that while that’s the proposal currently on the table, there is still room for further adjustments. “It sounds like it’s an open question,� McCown told the Weekly. “We’ll continue to listen to people.� Simitian cited the changes that have already been made and urged the residents to remain engaged in the process. He noted that the compromise should be developed by the school and the city — the official applicants for the trail project — not the county. He said he found it encouraging that the controversy over the trail proposal is limited to just this one segment of the project. “I think the process to date has actually provided some change in thinking,� Simitian said. “I hope people will keep talking to the university and keep talking to the city.� N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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