Re “11 O’clock Parking Meters and Sunday Meters Are Smelling Doomed”
I think your take on the “stay” is incomplete.
The discussion before the City Council next Monday will be whether to stay the continued implementation/enforcement of the extended 11 p.m. and all-day Sunday parking rules pending further consideration of the issue, probably in May when we talk about the parking structures.
Basically, it would roll back to the status quo before we changed the hours, but leave the change in meter rates in place.
We need to be mindful of the impacts that decisions have on business.
These “new” rules only apply to Downtown. They were intended, at least initially, to address a perceived problem, that too many people wanted to park on the street and not in the structures.
We wanted to try and incentivize people to use the structures because it was cheaper than feeding two-hour parking meters.
If it turns out that instead of merely shifting them from the street to the structures, we are shifting them from Downtown to some other venue, then I think we need to re-think this strategy.
That was my point, badly articulated I guess.
Mr. Weissman, the City Councilman who last night suggested a stay of the cited parking meter changes, may be contacted at andrewweissman@anwlaw.com
