[Summit] ***SPAM*** Re: Parking Meters on Hope

[Greg Gerritt]

I find it ironic that rising health care costs are among the biggest
problems facing city finances, while at the same time it embraces economic
development that uses the medical industrial complex to drive the economy.
Politicians are forgetting a very important fact.   You can not have
affordable healthcare for all if you want to have the amount of money going
to the medical industrial complex grow faster than the wages of workers in
the rest of the economy.

Greg gerritt

From:  Michael McGlynn <mmcglynn at gmail.com>
Date:  Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 9:54 AM
To:  Kim Clark <ktcxyz at cox.net>
Cc:  Summit Neighborhood <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
Subject:  Re: [Summit] Parking Meters on Hope

The city needs revenue. Every dollar of they pass up in one place has to
come from another.

http://wpri.com/2015/12/02/providences-financial-outlook-cut-to-negative-by-
moodys/

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Kim Clark <ktcxyz at cox.net> wrote:
> i so agree with Emlyn so much on this. tired of EVERYTHING being
> ³commoditized². i am also quite sure that revenue from meters will do nothing
> to mitigate our very high property taxes. In fact there is a revaluation going
> on or about to commence and do doubt, we¹ll all be seeing increases.
> 
> We¹re starting to be propagandized that we merit nothing w/o paying extra for
> it. It¹s why people are against the ACA and the concept of single payer health
> services. Not a radical concept in so many places, but Americans are
> brainwashed that all ³free² things are evil or imply sloth. These things are
> not ³free² we pay for them via our taxes and for the amount of property taxes
> we pay, I think we deserve to keep our quaint, easy, meter-free neighborhood.
> 
> k
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>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I suppose many of us are now too jaded to accept that simply installing
>> meters will prevent or delay property tax hikes, but maybe I'm alone with
>> that suspicion. Double-dipping seems to have become the necessary M.O. for
>> strapped municipalities.
>> 
>> But the idea that using a parking space is somehow "giving something away"
>> sets off my inner socialist; whatever happened to just sharing things? Need a
>> spot for an hour? Park here. Just don't be a hog and leave your car all day
>> for the whole week. Are we installing meters as much to defeat social
>> cheaters?
>> 
>> Tax revenues are essential, but are states so broke that _everything_ must be
>> commoditized? Just asking.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Coryndon Luxmoore <coryndon at luxmoore.com>
>> wrote:
>>> The community is giving a valuable resource away to private individuals to
>>> monopolize for a period of time. People from out of the city have not paid
>>> for these spots, non-drivers are subsidizing drivers, etc.. Meters that are
>>> profitable will increase revenue and slow the rise of property taxes. Meters
>>> that are not profitable will tend to vanish to profitable areas.
>>> 
>>> There is a great study done in SF on parking and utilization for those who
>>> want to nerd out a bit on this issue:
>>> http://www.sfcta.org/transportation-planning-and-studies/current-research-an
>>> d-other-projectsstudies/street-parking-management-and-pricing-study
>>> 
>>> I hope that the local merchants will use this opportunity to work together
>>> across the city to find better solutions if this does not work for them. My
>>> personal preference on the revenue side is a rise in taxes for surface
>>> parking lots to reduce incentives for demolition. There are a lot of other
>>> options like sales taxes, removal of TSA's, lowered services, etc. There are
>>> also other solutions like working on opening up the massive number of
>>> private surface lots around the city to the general public.
>>> 
>>> Just for the record, I am a driver :). I regularly pay for street parking
>>> downtown to grab a coffee at Bolt. No open spot, no stopping.
>>> 
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