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You can have:

Easy-to-find-a-spot on street parking
Cheap RPP permits

Pick one. Fundamentally, this is an issue of scarcity, and how to allocate a scarce resource.

More commercial and other dense development near such neighborhoods without adequate provision for off-street parking or implementing RPP micro-parking zones, just makes daily life more of a hassle.

If it does, it's not because of the development, but because of our nonsensical parking regulations. Dense development is not the problem. In allows for more walking trips and less car usage. It's the solution, not the problem.

Try to strike a balance of interests, including how to protect residential parking, and the path for good development hopefully will be smoother.

Again, this depends on what you mean by 'protecting' residential parking. It can be easy, or it can be cheap. It cannot be both.

@Tom Coumaris

This all reminds me of the protests about the no-smoking-in-bars ordinance. We were warned it would cripple bar business. Devastate night life.

How'd that work out?

Expect the same sky falling when ERPP goes in.

I don't expect ERPP to cripple nightlife at all - I do expect that it won't solve the residents' parking issues, however - because residents have failed to realize that the problem they have with parking is of their own creation.

by Alex B. on Apr 6, 2012 10:54 am • link • report