Avondale Neighborhood Parking Permit

[CityLife]

Makes more sense in St. Augustine.  Narrow streets, dense residential, a college, and historic commercial district fueled by millions of tourist, all within a compact pedestrian scale setting.  St. Augustine has more in common with a place like Annapolis than it does with Riverside/Avondale.

What is most interesting to me is that St. Augustine only has the neighborhood parking in 2 spots. Along Saragossa where there are a lot of B&B's and Avenida Mendez which is on the waterfront and close to dining/bars/lodging. There are quite a few residential areas close to the touristy/commercial spots that do not have neighborhood parking permits. So it appears that St. Augustine only uses it in EXTREMELY bad parking situations.

[Josh]

Is that study considering the impact of alternative forms of mobility on parking? Or this straight autocentric-based?

While the study is just now getting started, the rumor I heard is that when this was first planned some time ago, it went from being a holistic transportation study to just one focused on parking.

[thelakelander]

That's bad info....

[Dog Walker]

Please, please get out of your cars and take the streetcars to the area!  Oh, that's right.  They aren't there anymore.

[thelakelander]

While they should certainly be a part of a long term solution for the area's perceived vehicular woes, there are a lot more multimodal options and solutions available than streetcars or only focusing on motorized vehicles.

[fieldafm]

While they should certainly be a part of a long term solution for the area's perceived vehicular woes, there are a lot more multimodal options and solutions available than streetcars or only focusing on motorized vehicles.

You can't go from point A to point Z by skipping over steps B through Y.

This parking permit talk skips over essentially every other reasonable option that could be explored first, and which have worked in communities with far higher densities than Avondale.  One 'novel' idea is to restrict on street parking to only one side of the street.  If parking passes get implemented, are the homeowners then also going to fund and abide by private road maintenance agreements?

[JeffreyS]

I would think step A would be have an actual parking problem. A problem BTW I deny exists.

[Kaiser Soze]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.  None of you fools have ever been through a divorce, much less four like ole Kaiser Soze.  My guess is that this study has far more to do with evidence than it does any sort damn sticker.  WLA was told they lacked evidence (other than condoms and well-fertilized trees) of a parking issue.  Well, hell, they are creating evidence with this study.

[Steve]

if RAP attempts this, then they should be forced to pay a very high lease for the use of what the public owns.

Remind me why RAP's name was brought into this?

[Intuition Ale Works]

if RAP attempts this, then they should be forced to pay a very high lease for the use of what the public owns.

Remind me why RAP's name was brought into this?

Steve-

Is there not a RAP subcommittee discussing the issues of a Neighborhood Parking permit?