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Summary

Inventory spaces

= 2970 in 1983

On street

 

Off street

 

Suggested

Solutions

 

 

Is parking an issue??

Merchants get 15T to ‘study’ it

(must be election year)

This page reviews a 1985 parking study done for city

Here an illegal parker in both a cross walk and a yellow line --- but as no By-Law enforcement – why not???

Previous study  well done

 We went down this road 20 years ago when population much higher --

For 13$ (Xeroxing cost) the city will let you too read/ own it---

To save readers the $ I have bought and copied some figs and conclusions here

Bottom line – no parking shortage found  then though 87% of merchants believed there to be one– (see below) but only 13% were willing to help pay for more parking – rest believed it was city responsibility – any predictions for 2005?

Inventory of spaces

(on street parking)

2970 spaces available

943 of these were on-street; and rest were private offstreet lots (including unmarked city lots)

Of the on street 495 had no time limit and only 24 had < 1hour --- as image left from text

 

 

Block 38 is City Hall

The illegally parked car in image above is in block 35 --- spaces here are for 1 hour with exception of cross walks etc

 

Only City Hall are has < 1hour parking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory of spaces

(off street parking)

 

Includes ‘land use’ which is still useful – thus 768 hotel rooms and 1147 seating capacity of ‘beverage rooms’

Audited by block

This is block 37 across – each ‘block’ is treated same ie lots named and numbered for spaces

 

Tax payers should build us more spaces

I am betting the present ‘study’ will come to similar conclusion --- more parking needed and Tax Payers should provide it ----(see the list of proponents – I mean ‘committee members”) at end of this file

My suggestions

(plan, regulate and incentives)

As the study points out – there are many ways to approach the problem (sic): changing time limits; making users pay; or using taxes to ‘free up’ some of those unused lots around town—or Hotels etc ‘encouraged’ to lease spaces until say 4 PM daily

Save $$ -- Recycle/ utilize available spaces

 

 

How many garbage bags would 15T$ buy – maybe 2 for every home in PR??

 

 

 

 See part 2 in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG on JULY/16/2005

Last updated on Saturday, July 16, 2005