[Summit] Parking again!

[Jeffrey Cavanaugh]

The point being made was that if you want on-street parking at night you
can't assume the same number of residential cars as you see now.  IN fact if
you allow overnight parking the Miriam folks will not be able to find spaces
during the day because residents who now cram all their cars into their
little tandem driveways will now leave all but one of those cars on the
street.  Also, the neighborhood will densify with both legal and illegal
apartments.  This is just the way it is so if you think about what life will
be like if the decades old law is changed, you have to consider that.  There
are arguments to be made both ways.  I actually think having an overnight
parking ban makes it easier for outsiders to park here.  There are more live
spaces because residents aren't camped out on the spaces all the time.  This
is actually good for our Hope St. businesses because there is probably not
adequate population density within walking distance to support them.  On the
other hand, the congenstion and densification that would be caused by
removing the ban would make this a more urban style neighborhood and slow
traffic on our streets.  Parked cars are a much cheaper traffic calming
feature than "bump outs".

For a good side by side check out the Brighton area of Boston and the nearby
urban area of Northern Brookline.  The latter does not allow on-street
parking although they do provide many municiple lots.

Also, check out our neighbor, Pawtucket.  Look at streets with a similar mix
of 1,2 and 3 families to your street.  What's it like?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Andrew Nosal <andy at mapcenter.com> wrote:

> Oops, sorry.  I forgot for a  moment that Summit is so magical that really,
> no one should be allowed to park here at all.
>
> It follows that whenever I drive or park in some other neighborhood or
> city, I am wrong to feel I am imposing in equal measure to other drivers
> because living here must make me special too.
>
> Only Other People's cars cause traffic, overcrowding, noise, pollution,
> parking problems or potholes.
>
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