I work with the Elliot Park neighborhood and their geographic boundaries contain 25% surface parking. Filled during the day or during games at the dome and empty and desolate the rest of the time, particularly at night.
I fully understand the need to provide adequate amounts of downtown parking. I lived in San Francisco in 1987 and parking there was $6 per 20 minutes in a downtown ramp. You had to buy a parking permit to park on the street in front of your apartment. Most people who lived in San Fran proper were paying between $100 - $200/mo. to rent a garage to park their car and people literally got in fist fights over parking spaces on the street. I don't support continuing the old rule of thumb by continuously creating one level of parking on asphalt surface lots. If we are going to create parking lets make sure it's a ramp, or we are building something on top of it. Barb Lickness Whittier __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
