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Way back in 2003, the Parking Task Force observed that limiting RPP permits to residents of RPP-zoned blocks was bad policy, "one of the major flaws in the system. . . . If one lives in the area with the generally restrictive parking conditions, but does not live on an RPP block, one cannot get a parking sticker and is effectively treated in the same way as a visitor or commuter." But good luck on getting the Council to change that policy.

Re Mount Pleasant's opting out of this residents-only system, not only was this going to be trouble for our neighborhood businesses, but the 50%-setaside was going to afflict blocks far from the commercial strip. This would be a completely gratuitous complication. And what does one do if only one side of a street has parking? Which half gets to be resident-only, which retains the two-hour visitor allowance?

This program promises to be a massive ticket trap for unwary visitors to a neighborhood. How many people from outside the area will realize that one side of the street has one parking rule, the other side, a different rule? This is already nabbing people parking in Columbia Heights, unaware that "Zone 1 only" means no two-hour allowance for nonresidents.

by Jack on Mar 8, 2012 9:56 am • link • report