Whether one is a supporter of the Grace Lutheran Church’s stance on neighborhood parking or a defender of the single block of Farragut Drive residents waging a so-far-successful No Parking Here campaign, neither set of partisans can doubt that Les and Paulette Greenberg exclusively have dedicated their current lives and imminent future to settling the controversy.
In closed session at 5:30 today, the City Council will address an allegation by Mr. Greenberg the lawyer there was a Brown Act violation when the Council reached its present state of suspending restrictions and studying potentially looser rules.
Mr. Greenberg said this morning that he and his wife will be in Council Chambers before the Council breaks for closed session. Both husband and wife will read separate statements they were organizing as this story was being reported.
The Greenbergs will leave Council Chambers after their declarations, Mr. Greenberg said. They will not wait for an update from Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells when the Council returns to the dais shortly after 7 o’clock.
“The Council should be making some kind of decision as to whether they want to sign what the Brown Act provides for, like a form consent decree,” Mr. Greenberg said.
“In other words, they say ‘We didn’t do it, but we won’t do it again.’
“Or they could do nothing. Thirty days would run, and it would be our decision whether we want to do nothing or sue them on that.”
Mr. Greenberg said he and his wife are speaking today in the spirit of “providing more information.”
Through the state public records act, the Greenbergs have obtained 45 emails from City Hall pertaining to the subject.
Each wrote a lengthy letter for this morning’s first edition at 8 o’clock, outlining his and her assertions in the months’ long matter. The dispute: Whether church members around the corner should be allowed to park in the 10700 block of Farragut between 8 in the morning and 10 at night.
