Incidentally, there is a city ordinance that prohibits the paving of a significant amount (more than 50%) of the square footage of the lot. Enforcing this is the responsibility of the enforcement division of the building dept, and it has been unenforced if there is no building permit/variance request (which there almost never is).
<br><br>There is a good argument that the lack of onstreet parking contributes to the overpaving of lots, and its attendant consequences - overcrowding, runoff, decreased tree cover and general urban ugliness. <br><br> It really is a question of what enforcement approach we as a city would like to live with for building codes, tenancy rules, and parking. The enforcement approach that we have doesn't seem to be accomplishing its intent, which is to limit tenant density in multifamilies, although we might like the accompanying feature of having (mostly) clear curbs.
<br><br>Best, Allan<br>93 Lauriston<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jennifer Luxmoore</b> <<a href="mailto:jennifer@luxmoore.com">jennifer@luxmoore.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">I agree with this, I would love (really love!!) to have a back yard. (I can't have a dog, because we have no yard for him and I love dogs!) Our back yard is all pavement. We have 2 cars, and we live in a 3 family so there are spaces for 3 other cars, thus no yard. If we could have 2 spaces on street, we could have a yard. Plus there would be space in the driveway for the (what seems to be rarer and rarer) occurrence of a snow storm.
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<div>On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Jennifer Cole wrote:</div><br></span><blockquote type="cite"> <div><span class="q"><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">
There is already an ordinance on the books regarding how many unrelated persons can be "packed" into an apartment. Do you not want the onstreet permitted parking in your neighborhood or anywhere in Providence. As you probably know there are lots of neighborhoods, mine included where the houses built at the turn of the century and before, which have neither driveways nor parking, thus every lot which comes available gets turned into a parking lot. You know how folks don't like living next to giant parking lots in this neighborhood? Well, there are plenty of large lots like that all over the city simply because there's no place to put cars at the houses. So I would support a neighborhood by neighborhood approach to this. Places that don't need it don't need to have it, and places that do need it, can have it, and perhaps we can stop paving over every available yard and lot in the city.
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us
</a> [<a href="mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mailto:summit-bounces@sna.providence.ri.us</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Paul Aceto<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:43 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Summit Neighborhood<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Subject:</span></b> [Summit] Fw: FW: On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative</span></font></p> </div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p> <div><p><font face="Arial" size="3">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> I for one do not want on-street parking. There are far too many cars in the neighborhood already. Walk around early in the morning and you will see cars parked on the street and yards full of cars, most of which have out-of-state plates. I'm sure landlords who rent to students would like this passed. They would be able to pack even more college students into their properties.
</span></font></p> </div> <div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p> </div> <div><p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> Don't forget about winter. On-street parking during and after a snowstorm is a serious problem. In other cities where this is allowed, turf wars develop. Heaven help the person who parks in a spot that someone else has shoveled out.
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</span></font></p> </div> <div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p> </div> <div><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">----- Original Message -----
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="mailto:gerritt@mindspring.com" title="gerritt@mindspring.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Greg Gerritt</a> </span></font></p> </div> <div><p><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">To:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
<a href="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us" title="Summit@sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Summit Neighborhood</a> </span></font></p> </div> <div><p><b><font face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:56 PM</span></font>
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[Summit] FW: On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative</span></font></p> </div> </div> <div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p> </div></span><p><font face="Palatino" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Palatino;"><span class="q">Parking and a neighborhood by neighborhood approach. In some cities it is a block by block appraoch. greg<br> ------ Forwarded Message<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span></b>On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative<br> <br> </span><span><div><image001.jpg></div></span><span class="q"><a href="http://www.wbna.org/index2.php?option=com_yanc&act=stats&task=click&cid=da4fb5c6e93e74d3df8527599fa62642-a5bfc9e07964f8dddeb95fc584cd965d&Itemid=&no_html=1%3e" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<span style="font-size: 16.5pt; font-family: Palatino;">Action Alert <br> </span></font><span class="q"><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Palatino;">Wednesday, 12 September 2007 <br>
</span></font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;">Many people came out to our September General Meeting last Tuesday to discuss Resident Permit Parking--an initiative that would allow overnight on-street parking in select areas. Councilman Lombardi, David Everett from the Planning Department, Lt. Day from the Police Department, and Patrick Ward, founder of Citizens for Resident Permit Parking (CRPP) were present. David Everett discussed the existing pilot program in Washington Park and Patrick Ward discussed his efforts to bring permit parking to all city neighborhoods. The City has extended the pilot or "trial" period for resident permit parking until 2009, and other neighborhoods are expected to join.
<br> </span></font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Palatino;"><br> </span></font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;">West Side</span>
</font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;"> neighbors at the meeting decided to begin gathering signatures for petitions to the City Council and Mayor to demonstrate their interest in extending the pilot program to this area. While the City will not be able add the entire West Broadway neighborhood as a pilot area, we hope that the City and Councilman Lombardi will consider designating those areas where it is the most feasible and practical.
<br> </span></font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Palatino;"><br> </span></font><font face="Palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;">If you are interested in taking part in this grassroots effort and would like to gather signatures from your neighbors, please let us know the block or the street you will gather signatures from and we will email you a copy of the petition form.
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