[Summit] Postponing The Fall Festival to October 2nd
Monica Anderson
majaprov at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 23 21:15:04 UTC 2011
Dear Neighbors,
Please help spread the word. The Fall Festival on Hope Street has been postponed until Sunday October 2nd due to the rainy forecast.
Save the NEW date on your calendar!
Sincerely,
Monica Anderson
--- On Fri, 9/23/11, summit-request at sna.providence.ri.us <summit-request at sna.providence.ri.us> wrote:
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> Subject: Summit Digest, Vol 78, Issue 34
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> Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 1:00 PM
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> 1. Re: The unstoppable force vs the
> immovable object (Emlyn Addison)
> 2. Re: Additional Parking Ban Information
> (Sheri)
> 3. Re: Please Share Your Thoughts On
> Lifting The Overnight
> Parking Ban (Andrew Nosal)
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> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:54 -0400
> From: Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com>
> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Subject: Re: [Summit] The unstoppable force vs the
> immovable object
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> >
> > A parked car never hurt anyone. It is the moving
> ones you need to worry
> > about.
> >
>
> Sure, but it's the parked ones that can make the moving
> ones more of a
> menace than they otherwise would be.
>
> I agree that parked cars tend to slow drivers down
> (sometimes) but it's also
> pretty hair-raising trying to turn from 8th onto Hope
> street (in either
> direction) when area restaurants are at full capacity. And
> to underscore
> this point: a child was knocked over at this exact
> intersection last
> Halloween precisely because so many parked cars were
> hampering visibility.
>
> Emlyn
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> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:48:46 -0400
> From: Sheri <sherim95 at gmail.com>
> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Additional Parking Ban Information
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> Hi all, this is my first post to this list...
>
> First off, I am pro-overnight parking (by resident permit).
> I find that
> most of the points being brought up on this list have
> nothing to do with
> the issue at hand which is parking on the streets, by
> residents, between
> 2-6am. Concerns about trash collection, narrow
> streets, snow plowing,
> etc. exist at ANY TIME OF DAY, and so are off-topic.
>
> However I think a couple of valid questions have been
> brought up:
>
> 1. What is the plan for street sweeping?
> 2. If the city bans parking on my street on a given night
> to sweep, will
> I be able to park my car on a nearby street? If so, how
> will I know
> whether overnight parking is allowed on that street (e.g.,
> did they opt
> out of the permit program)?
> 3. When there is a snow emergency, is there a plan to
> provide a parking
> location for those who do not have off-street parking
> available? For
> instance, many people who are currently renting parking
> spaces will no
> longer rent if permits are available.
>
> Of course there are ways to deal with these, but I would
> like to know
> that the city is well-prepared to manage the changes, and
> that this
> isn't going to result in a lot of chaos (and towed cars) if
> they pass
> the plan in a hasty effort to increase revenues through
> permit sales.
>
> Sheri M.
>
> On 9/23/11 9:12 AM, Andrew Nosal wrote:
> > This is a pragmatic plan which fully addresses all the
> street
> > cleaning, snow plowing, emergency vehicle clearance,
> etc. issues.
> >
> > If any of the 24 foot wide streets around here
> presently allow parking
> > on two sides at any time, it will be news to me.
> >
> > I kinda like how the occasional car parked on the
> "wrong" side of the
> > street keeps speeds down. I wonder if some
> residents, particularly on
> > 10th street, purposely park on the wrong side for this
> very reason. A
> > parked car never hurt anyone. It is the moving
> ones you need to worry
> > about.
> >
>
> --
> -- Sheri
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:08:45 -0400
> From: Andrew Nosal <andy at mapcenter.com>
> To: Summit Neighborhood <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Please Share Your Thoughts On Lifting
> The
> Overnight Parking Ban
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> If the parking ban ends, and you look outside at 3AM and
> see a few
> cars parked, consider this: Those are the cars of
> actual neighbors of
> yours. Not invaders or bad people. They will park
> there because
> parking there makes life better and easier for them than
> whatever they
> did before, perhaps shuffling cars in and out of a
> driveway, parking
> where there ought to be a patio or garden, or being ripped
> off by some
> landlord for monthly parking.
>
> If you have some kind of issue with a blocked driveway or
> the like
> several nights of the year, the remedy is not to punish
> those random
> neighbors all 365 nights of the year.
>
> Ellen House, do you enter your driveway front-in or do you
> back in?
> You do not report having been entirely stuck. And if
> you were
> trapped, I am sure it was in the daytime, raising the
> question of how
> an overnight ban is supposed to solve the problem.
> Seriously, is
> having to drive slowly and attentively really such a
> nightmare that
> all those neighbors need to be punished?
>
>
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