One long block parks about 30 cars if there are no driveway cuts. A short block parks about 15. So they are taking maybe 135 spaces.
Returning students take far more spaces than this all the time, every day, nine months a year. We enjoy the extra space every summer and get used to its absence in the winter.
Why is filming so different? Both have associated hassles and both have economic benefits.
If no one were filming here, I'd wager someone would start a thread about how someone should film, how we could market ourselves so someone would. ;-)
It's nice to be popular, isn't it? Complaining about what a drag it is to be popular is a delicate thing.
I think you're missing the point, Jeff. You can't draw an analogy to the flood of students' cars because we're already well aware of that problem. It happens every year, and while it's unpleasant for a lot of people, it's not something that's dropped out of the sky onto our neighborhood. And although we've had some movie productions in our area, the production of _Hack_ is semi-continual; it's going to keep happening, and not always in the same place. The two issues have some similarities, but there are profound differences.
Judging from the responses I've seen so far, it appears that there was no effort to notify the neighborhood that we'd _become_ this popular. Thus, there was no community input on how to handle the logistics of the filming-- to develop some manageable scheme for handling parked cars, for example, so we can have the production and minimize its impact on our lives. Did the producers meet with community representatives? Were these issues discussed?
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