[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 132, Issue 5

[Kim Clark]

i have no idea what you’re talking about regarding restricting parking for our “own” customers… that’s out of left field, certainly no one is suggesting that!

k
                    Kim T. Clark
         www.RHODYCRAFT.com
              780 HOPE STREET
          PROVIDENCE, RI 02906
                    401.626.1833

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> On Mar 10, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Andrew Nosal <andy at mapcenter.com> wrote:
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> Absurdly oversized, monstrous looking vehicles all over the place have already dissolved the quaintness more than parking meters -kiosks or single posts- ever could.
> 
> Someone tossed out the idea of taking the CVS parking lot by eminent domain for a municipal parking lot.  Good one!  But more achievable and not requiring a lot by lot approach would be a citywide prohibition of all validated parking arrangements or lots reserved for customers of one business.  I say if you offer publicly accessible parking, you are in the parking business, period.  You can charge for it, you can give it away,  you can enforce a time limit, but what you may not do is restrict use to your own customers, which has a very un-neighborly way of preventing individuals from visiting nearby shops while they are in the area. 
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>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Kim Clark <ktcxyz at cox.net <mailto:ktcxyz at cox.net>> wrote:
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>> I’d like to make two points, one from me as a resident and one from me as a merchant:
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>> resident: the merchants on Hope Street have employees, many of whom drive to work. they generally park on the side streets where there aren’t parking regulations. If there are two hour meters there, those folks will be pushed further and further into the neighborhood clogging up more streets.
>> 
>> one might ask, how that is different from clogging up the side streets they’re already parking on, and my best, if somewhat inadequate answer would be that the people living in those houses, knew they were buying houses 1/2 a block from a busy retail area and were already aware that there were parking issues.
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>> Also from the resident perspective, I choose to live in a quaint “village” type area and not downtown. If I lived downtown, parking meters would be part of the industrial streetscape. Wayland Square, Summit, etc, are not industrial and meters detract from the ambiance of the area which is so much a part of it’s appeal and why we choose to live here.
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>> Biz owner: many of you seem to be under the impression that the majority of Hope Street shoppers are from the neighborhood and could easily walk, or bike instead of driving and parking… that is actually untrue. The neighbors are a part of our customer base and many would say, the favorite part… but especially over the holidays, our customers are from all over the state and year round, a good portion of them are people visiting Providence. We want those folks to be able to spend a whole day on Hope Street, shopping, dining, essentially, more than two hours and unlike downtown, we don’t have parking garages where people can just pay and park for the day. My concern about meters is less about having them on Hope Street and more about them bleeding down side streets reducing day long parking potential.
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