What happened to Jim Love?

[Lucasjj]

Do any of you who are complaining live near Park & King?  There are now THREE bars at the intersection of Post & King, Kickbacks is building an extension, The Salty Fig is open across from Kickbacks.  THERE IS NO PARKING FOR RESIDENTS IN THE EVENINGS.

If Jim wants to slow neighborhood development in my neighborhood, now that he sees what it has done to the people who actually live here, then he certainly represents me on City Council.

I live on Post a block west of King. Other than late Friday and Saturday night street parking is easily available in the area. I bought my house three years ago and love what has gone in and excited whenever I hear of more stuff coming to the area.

Any parking problem is just a perceived issue thinking that you should be able to pull up to a business like your in the sub burbs or that the street in front of your house is only parking for you.

[simms3]

I follow. You are both saying it's a perceived problem rather than an actual one.

Changing that perception then seems a good goal as well.

Why is it so hard to change peoples perception on the issue?

And if it truly is a vocal minority, then who cares if they complain?

I can say two things about parking around Park/Post and King and around the Shoppes in Avondale

1) I drive through both areas multiple times a day, and often it LOOKS as if there is most certainly a parking problem.
2) I have personally never changed my plans on the fly due to not being able to find parking. An extra couple minutes searching or walking the extra 100 yards. (although I often have parked in the driveway of a certain WLA member when it's peak hours, just to irk him)

Here's where Jax mentality is still in the stone ages.  I come home, friends come home, and we want to grab lunch at Whiteway or dinner at Pele's or a beer at Kickback's.  Everybody's off "doing their own thing" so we "meet" at a specific time at said places, which means you have maybe one car with 2 occupants (that's good for Jax) and 3 other cars for 3 separate occupants all meeting...yet we're really all coming from the Avondale/Ortega area and it doesn't have to be like that.

Then I keep harping on cabs - NOBODY takes them, so you have too many single/double occupant cars at night being driven by drunk drivers and taking up too much parking.  Obviously I can't compare this to SF which is leagues different, but in Atlanta and Nashville you simply couldn't drive in alone like that if you tried - parking is much more tight (and usually not free), many more bars/restaurants in these areas, and cabs are heavily used by most.  Jax needs to evolve to this (I'd love to see more cars crammed with people and with a DD, and a line of cabs for others).

[L.P. Hovercraft]

I live near the King St. district (on College) and I certainly don't mind people parking in the street in front of my house (it may even prevent burglaries since it makes it look like someone's at home even if we're not) and I will say 9 times out of 10, most people are very considerate of not blocking my driveway or pulling up over the curb and parking in the grass in the tree lawn (which can leave big ugly ruts if the ground is wet). 

However, I do have a problem when I occasionally come home after work to find my driveway blocked (and I'm not talking a foot of bumper here either, I mean full-on using the cut-in of the driveway as a parking spot--I'm not a parking fascist!).  In that case, I simply park in the nearest on-street spot I can find and call one of the tow truck companies I keep on speed dial on my phone and within 30-45 minutes (if the person has not come back and moved their car themselves) the problem is solved. 

I feel bad for having people's cars towed, but I'm paying the mortgage and property taxes for my house and that includes being able to come and go when I like without having to engage in an amateur demolition derby.  And as most here have stated before, if you don't mind having to walk a block or two from the bar or restaurant you're visiting, there are tons of parking spots available on side streets without blocking driveways or parking on lawns closer to the action on King St.

I would ditch my car in a minute to be able to use streetcar or commuter rail to get to work--I'm only about five miles or so from where I work on the other side of I-10 and I do occasionally bike in, but I still drive in most days--but at present unless you want to get to work hot and sweaty from biking in 90 degree heat or leave two hours early to catch a bus, you still really need a car to get around in this town, and that's the real problem here.

[thelakelander]

I would ditch my car in a minute to be able to use streetcar or commuter rail to get to work--I'm only about five miles or so from where I work on the other side of I-10 and I do occasionally bike in, but I still drive in most days--but at present unless you want to get to work hot and sweaty from biking in 90 degree heat or leave two hours early to catch a bus, you still really need a car to get around in this town, and that's the real problem here.

This is where a lot of our immediate focus should be.  From what I understand, JTA is currently looking at possibly revamping their entire bus system.  Hopefully, our neighborhoods and residents will play an active role in that study's outcome.

[Captain Zissou]

I usually hate to address the parking situation, because parking isnt the problem and more parking isn't the solution, but i'll do it this once.  I think part of the problem is that the district itself is so small and the perceived "safe" area is also small. Also, people just don't know the area so they don't know where to park.

Real districts stretch for blocks in all directions. Usually districts are a grid of shops and bars, not a single street. If the King Street area was a larger destination with things spanning more blocks, the parking would disperse across a broader area and be less concentrated. King street is really just 1 block, with 3 roads to use as parking. Anything north of college is perceived as 'scary' and the super-blocks going both east and west reduce parking on the cross streets. It would be great if streets like West & Green were better lit and more used. Downing street is closer to that area than where most of the cars park on Post. I often park on Forbes, which is pretty empty west of king. Parking in front of the bank is really easy and never crowded. I rarely have to search for a spot because I don't mess with post or college.

[Slackiinoff]

Do any of you who are complaining live near Park & King?  There are now THREE bars at the intersection of Post & King, Kickbacks is building an extension, The Salty Fig is open across from Kickbacks.  THERE IS NO PARKING FOR RESIDENTS IN THE EVENINGS.

If Jim wants to slow neighborhood development in my neighborhood, now that he sees what it has done to the people who actually live here, then he certainly represents me on City Council.

I live nearby, like having a wonderful walkable neighborhood that isn't full of drug dealers and hookers, you can thank Kickbacks for that.

Oh, and the parking for residents is in your driveway, the parking on the street is public. Do us all a favor and move out to the exurbs.

[zedsdead]

Jim Love voted  FOR  the mayor's budget. Discuss

[jaxequality]

Jim Love is toast.

[tufsu1]

Jim Love voted  FOR  the mayor's budget. Discuss

not true...there has been no vote on the budget....Love just voted NO on the bill to turn down the pension plan.

[mtraininjax]

It is no mystery that I did not vote for Brown, I lost. I did vote for my neighbor Jim Love. The two quickly realized the easiest thing about the election was getting elected. Leading and Serving is the hard part. The Mayor held a meeting with the non-profits last week and ended it telling them that he gets calls and emails about the homeless and he doesn't have the resources for it, and that the non-profits don't get "it", whatever that is. Leading a city with as many messes as we have is not easy, for anyone.

All the new people on the council, they are new and learning. Jill would have been new too. I believe King Street, Avondale and 5-Points benefit from Jim and his urban experiences. He did work to broker a deal with Mellow Mushroom and the Avondale residents. He did work with Steve Flores and Kickbacks. He did work with Jon Insetta and the construction of Black Sheep in 5-points.

We recently were inundated with new graffiti from the "H3" gang in our neighborhood. I called Jim and asked him if he could get public works to paint over the graffiti, and it took a few weeks, but it happened. The process works, it does not work at the snap of a finger. 

Parking is going to really stink when 5-points gets all those empty shops filled. Get ready Riverside for more of a parking CRUSH. I did see today that new patrons to Riverside are leaving their tires and trash behind. Success brings new problems. But it is still better than 10 years ago. The Brick opened up in 2003, it has been with us for 10 years, amazing, and the changes during those 10 years have been amazing too.

[fieldafm]

He did work to broker a deal with Mellow Mushroom and the Avondale residents. He did work with Steve Flores and Kickbacks. He did work with Jon Insetta and the construction of Black Sheep in 5-points.

That's literally the funniest and most bizarre thing you have ever said. 

[mtraininjax]

That's literally the funniest and most bizarre thing you have ever said. 

Check the records, I have been blasted for far worse. lol

[fieldafm]

That's literally the funniest and most bizarre thing you have ever said. 

Check the records, I have been blasted for far worse. lol

To say he 'brokered deals' in those situation is absolutely absurd. 

[mtraininjax]

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            That's literally the funniest and most bizarre thing you have ever said. 


        Check the records, I have been blasted for far worse. lol


    To say he 'brokered deals' in those situation is absolutely absurd.


unless you include Neville Chamberlain as an example of a successful broker

No politician ever took credit for backdoor politics? In this town? Give me a break. John Peyton brought us a Super Bowl remember? lol!

[MEGATRON]

He did work to broker a deal with Mellow Mushroom and the Avondale residents. He did work with Steve Flores and Kickbacks. He did work with Jon Insetta and the construction of Black Sheep in 5-points.

That's literally the funniest and most bizarre thing you have ever said.

Thought the same thing.