<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yes I have been to those other cities, even Pawtucket! It seems just fine there.</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to see us transition to a world with far fewer cars. However, in the world we have it makes sense to let people park their cars in existing curbside spaces, which have been paid for by all of us. Parking regulations and pricing should be devised to benefit the broad public, in light of transportation and land use issues, not sheer nimbyism.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Jeffrey Cavanaugh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The point being made was that if you want on-street parking at night you can't assume the same number of residential cars as you see now. IN fact if you allow overnight parking the Miriam folks will not be able to find spaces during the day because residents who now cram all their cars into their little tandem driveways will now leave all but one of those cars on the street. Also, the neighborhood will densify with both legal and illegal apartments. This is just the way it is so if you think about what life will be like if the decades old law is changed, you have to consider that. There are arguments to be made both ways. I actually think having an overnight parking ban makes it easier for outsiders to park here. There are more live spaces because residents aren't camped out on the spaces all the time. This is actually good for our Hope St. businesses because there is probably not adequate population density within walking distance to support them. On the other hand, the congenstion and densification that would be caused by removing the ban would make this a more urban style neighborhood and slow traffic on our streets. Parked cars are a much cheaper traffic calming feature than "bump outs". </div> <div> </div> <div>For a good side by side check out the Brighton area of Boston and the nearby urban area of Northern Brookline. The latter does not allow on-street parking although they do provide many municiple lots.</div> <div> </div> <div>Also, check out our neighbor, Pawtucket. Look at streets with a similar mix of 1,2 and 3 families to your street. What's it like?<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Andrew Nosal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@mapcenter.com">andy@mapcenter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Oops, sorry. I forgot for a moment that Summit is so magical that really, no one should be allowed to park here at all.<br> <br>It follows that whenever I drive or park in some other neighborhood or city, I am wrong to feel I am imposing in equal measure to other drivers because living here must make me special too.<br><br>Only Other People's cars cause traffic, overcrowding, noise, pollution, parking problems or potholes. <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Summit mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank">Summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a><br><a href="http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank">http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us</a><br> SNA Website: <a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/" target="_blank">http://sna.providence.ri.us/</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Summit mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us">Summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a><br><a href="http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us">http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us</a><br>SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/</blockquote></div><br></body></html>