Parking Meters are holding back Downtown Development

[Noone]

Did anyone notice all the covered parking meters on Monroe St. yesterday next to the library? What was that all about? Who replaced Jack Shad or is he still in charge of parking?

Jack Shad left several months ago.  That's part of the problem.

Yes.  Back to Bob Carle, who signed the triple dipping contracts for Mark Rimmer's parking garages.  The parking commissioner job needs be completely redesigned.  Jack Shads method of administration should be looked at as the rough model. 

Paul "Interim" Crawford (OED) was asked to speak at the 1/20/16 Rules Committee meeting by Rules Chair Schellenberg about the parking meter situation that was disclosed by the media. Nobody on city council knew what the heck was going on in Duval county.

Paul "Interim" Crawford immediately apologized for this Bob Carle guy being a No Show because he had to run out and FIX a meter.

There was no mention of the trippleh dipping contracts. I was sitting right next to Carla Miller.

The big news story should be the VISITOR ADA HANDICAPPED Parking signs at the DCPS building property. Is this the first of its kind? Seriously.

[jaxjaguar]

It would be much more friendly to those visiting downtown to remove the meters and strictly enforce time limits. The city could continue to make money off of fines, but visitors would have the freedom to drive into downtown for lunch without worrying about losing their coins in the meter (happened to me countless times), coming up to a dead / broken meter, or having to worry about keeping change in the car at all times.

If downtown wants people to come out from the beaches they'll need to lure them with free parking currently offered by the Town Center and pretty much every other establishment in the city.

Validating garage tickets (up to a certain time limit) with a purchase would also be great way to reduce the number of people parking on the streets.

why should downtown have meters?  There are thousands and thousands of spaces to park in in the garages.

I specifically said to remove the meters and use the garages with a validation system. The street parking would just have a hard limit (during business hours) so that there could be space for people popping in for lunch,  banks,  etc.

I've seen plenty of other cities enforce parking limits on free spaces with a chalk line on a tire.

[jaxjaguar]

Oh,  I just read it with the wrong inflection haha. 

So how do we actually go about making this happen? I feel like we've been talking about it for years. ..