[Summit] Fw: FW: On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative

Thu Sep 13 14:21:16 UTC 2007

Incidentally, there is a city ordinance that prohibits the paving of a
significant amount (more than 50%) of the square footage of the lot.
Enforcing this is the responsibility of the enforcement division of the
building dept, and it has been unenforced if there is no building
permit/variance request (which there almost never is).

There is a good argument that the lack of onstreet parking contributes to
the overpaving of lots, and its attendant consequences - overcrowding,
runoff, decreased tree cover and general urban ugliness.

 It really is a question of what enforcement approach we as a city would
like to live with for building codes, tenancy rules, and parking. The
enforcement approach that we have doesn't seem to be accomplishing its
intent, which is to limit tenant density in multifamilies, although we might
like the accompanying feature of having (mostly) clear curbs.

Best, Allan
93 Lauriston

On 9/13/07, Jennifer Luxmoore <jennifer at luxmoore.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with this, I would love (really love!!) to have a back yard. (I
> can't have a dog, because we have no yard for him and I love dogs!) Our back
> yard is all pavement. We have 2 cars, and we live in a 3 family so there are
> spaces for 3 other cars, thus no yard. If we could have 2 spaces on street,
> we could have a yard. Plus there would be space in the driveway for the
> (what seems to be rarer and rarer) occurrence of a snow storm.  Jennifer
> Luxmoore
> jennifer at luxmoore.com
>
>
>
> On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Jennifer Cole wrote:
>
> There is already an ordinance on the books regarding how many unrelated
> persons can be "packed" into an apartment. Do you not want the onstreet
> permitted parking in your neighborhood or anywhere in Providence. As you
> probably know there are lots of neighborhoods, mine included where the
> houses built at the turn of the century and before, which have neither
> driveways nor parking, thus every lot which comes available gets turned into
> a parking lot. You know how folks don't like living next to giant parking
> lots in this neighborhood? Well, there are plenty of large lots like that
> all over the city simply because there's no place to put cars at the houses.
> So I would support a neighborhood by neighborhood approach to this. Places
> that don't need it don't need to have it, and places that do need it, can
> have it, and perhaps we can stop paving over every available yard and lot in
> the city.
>
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> *From:* summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us [
> mailto:summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us<summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us>]
> *On Behalf Of *Paul Aceto
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:43 AM
> *To:* Summit Neighborhood
> *Subject:* [Summit] Fw: FW: On-Street Residential Permit Parking
> Initiative
>
>
>
>     I for one do not want on-street parking. There are far too many cars
> in the neighborhood already. Walk around early in the morning and you will
> see cars parked on the street and yards full of cars, most of which have
> out-of-state plates. I'm sure landlords who rent to students would like this
> passed. They would be able to pack even more college students into their
> properties.
>
>
>
>     Don't forget about winter. On-street parking during and after a
> snowstorm is a serious problem. In other cities where this is allowed, turf
> wars develop. Heaven help the person who parks in a spot that someone else
> has shoveled out.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> *From:* Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
>
> *To:* Summit Neighborhood <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:56 PM
>
> *Subject:* [Summit] FW: On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative
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>
>
> Parking and a neighborhood by neighborhood approach.  In some cities it is
> a block by block appraoch.  greg
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> *Date: *Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:51:51 -0700
> *To: *Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
> *Subject: *On-Street Residential Permit Parking Initiative
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> Wednesday, 12 September 2007
> Many people came out to our September General Meeting last Tuesday to
> discuss Resident Permit Parking--an initiative that would allow overnight
> on-street parking in select areas. Councilman Lombardi, David Everett from
> the Planning Department, Lt. Day from the Police Department, and Patrick
> Ward, founder of Citizens for Resident Permit Parking (CRPP) were present.
> David Everett discussed the existing pilot program in Washington Park and
> Patrick Ward discussed his efforts to bring permit parking to all city
> neighborhoods. The City has extended the pilot or "trial" period for
> resident permit parking until 2009, and other neighborhoods are expected to
> join.
>
> West Side neighbors at the meeting decided to begin gathering signatures
> for petitions to the City Council and Mayor to demonstrate their interest in
> extending the pilot program to this area. While the City will not be able
> add the entire West Broadway neighborhood as a pilot area, we hope that the
> City and Councilman Lombardi will consider designating those areas where it
> is the most feasible and practical.
>
> If you are interested in taking part in this grassroots effort and would
> like to gather signatures from your neighbors, please let us know the block
> or the street you will gather signatures from and we will email you a copy
> of the petition form.
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