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out here. … The only thing I could do was scratch my head." "You don't know where [the no-parking zone] stops and where it starts," Merkle also pointed out in a Feb. 7 interview with the News Leader. "I wouldn't know if I didn't live there." McGregor added during the SKA meeting that his and Osborne's concerns were communi- cated to county staff members. "Hopefully, they are going to come back and redo all these signs," McGregor said. "As it stands right now, we spoke to our supervisors and we are not going to enforce that parking area until it gets straightened out." Otherwise, he pointed out, a judge probably would throw out any cases in which people were cited. On Feb. 11, SKA Vice President Michael Shay told the News Leader he had heard from Paula Wiggins, the county's transportation planning manager, that she and two other county staff members — Maintenance Manager Mark Richmond and Asset Manager Gary Spraggins — had spoken with Osborne on Feb. 7. She wrote Shay in a Feb. 10 email, "Additional sig- nage will be put out to clearly indicate where the 'No Parking' areas are. Hopefully, this will rectify the issue of confusion." Commissioner Nora Patterson, who attended the SKA meeting, brought up the matter during the Feb. 11 County Commission ses- sion in Venice, noting McGregor's comment that the no-parking zones would not be enforced until better signage was up. "Some of [the signs] point to the people's houses," Vehicles are parked in the grass right of way on Avenida de Mayo, with a sign indicating no parking allowed. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader February 14, 2014 Page 71