[Summit] [Board] calling the police

[Jessica Jenner]

 When people park on my little street (Brewster)it can be hard to get
through.  The apartments across the street (which have inconvenient driveway
parking from the occupants' point of view) park directly across from my
driveway, and I'm likely to hit one of those cars someday - it makes a very
tight turn out of my driveway, even for my fairly small car. If parking was
restricted to one side only on Brewster fire trucks and emergency vehicles
could get through OK, but I agree with Michele - more cars will come.
People with driveways will put one car in the drive and one on the street,
just because it saves juggling; some families will end up with 3 or 4 cars;
visitors will still have a hard time parking...and people will then want to
allow overnight guests to park on the 'wrong side.'

No easy answers, for sure.  Maybe a gas crisis will put people on busses and
they will buy fewer cars?

-----Original Message-----
From: Summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us
[mailto:Summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us] On Behalf Of Greg Gerritt
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:18 AM
To: Summit Neighborhood
Subject: Re: [Summit] [Board] calling the police

Nop more need to pave lawns. No need to call the police if you have overnite
guests, many people int he city have no driveways, including some of muy
neighbors in Summit.  greg

> From: Jim Willis <sjwillis at willisbros.net>
> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 08:39:27 -0400
> To: Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
> Cc: SNA Board list <Board at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Subject: Re: [Board] calling the police
> 
> Greg:
> What are the arguments in favor of street parking?
> Jim
> 
> 
> On May 7, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Greg Gerritt wrote:
> 
>> Some of us think on street parking makes alot of sense and  wish 
>> Providence would expand the program.  greg gerritt
>> 
>>> From: "Chris and Michelle Tuck" <catuck at cox.net>
>>> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 08:08:30 -0400
>>> To: "Carol Cancro" <ccancro at cox.net>, "John Bazik" 
>>> <jsb at cs.brown.edu>
>>> Cc: board at sna.providence.ri.us, atear at aptuspartners.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Board] calling the police
>>> 
>>> For the most part, it is the 3-family houses that have the paved 
>>> lawns and that is, generally, because there are now 2 cars per unit 
>>> instead of 0 or 1.
>>> It should be a pressure for the owners of the building and the 
>>> rents, not the neighborhood.  You can get more rent for your 
>>> apartment if you offer 2 or more parking spots for each unit.  
>>> However, 6 parking spots for one building on a standard lot is not 
>>> feasible with this lot size (and paving requirements).  That is why 
>>> most front yards are paved.  If we allow resident parking stickers, 
>>> more cars will come.
>>> 
>>> Chris and I rented on Lewis Street for a year.  We had 2 parking 
>>> spots available to us but 3 cars (and we would have had more if we 
>>> didn't have the pressure of storing 3 on 2 spots.  We had to keep 
>>> only 2 cars at our house and arrange parking for the third 
>>> elsewhere.  We would absolutely have kept the third on the property 
>>> if they had let us and we would absolutely have bought a fourth if 
>>> there was room.  If we allow resident parking stickers, more cars 
>>> will come.
>>> 
>>> Michelle Tuck
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Carol Cancro" <ccancro at cox.net>
>>> To: "John Bazik" <jsb at cs.brown.edu>
>>> Cc: <board at sna.providence.ri.us>; <atear at aptuspartners.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:31 PM
>>> Subject: [Board] calling the police
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I know, it's just one more thing to do.  Besides, I think if
>>> everyone
>>>> really had enough parking, they wouldn't be paving their lawns...
>>>> 
>>>> Carol C.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "John Bazik" <jsb at cs.brown.edu>
>>>> To: "Carol Cancro" <ccancro at cox.net>
>>>> Cc: <atear at aptuspartners.com>; <board at sna.providence.ri.us>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 8:29 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Board] neighborhood parking stickers
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:10:37PM -0400, Carol Cancro wrote:
>>>>>> Should we be thinking about parking stickers for our neighborhood 
>>>>>> as well?  Every time we have an overnight guest, we've got to 
>>>>>> wedge our cars into our tiny side yard, and wind up obstructing 
>>>>>> the sidewalk.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You don't have to do that.  Call the police (best after 11pm), and 
>>>>> tell them you have an overnight guest and the license number, and 
>>>>> they will not be tagged.  This is Providence Police policy in 
>>>>> effect for many years.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unlike some neighborhoods, most everyone in Summit has enough 
>>>>> parking, so resident parking stickers haven't been very 
>>>>> interesting for us.
>>>>> 
>>>>> John
>>>> 
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