Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Parking problems or money problems?

Everyone's been told the city has serious money problems and, frankly, there never is enough money to appropriately fund government, is there? There's a lot of debate about whether the downtown has a parking problem. There seems to be a serious one right around the courthouse and city hall, mainly because few people want to walk a couple blocks from municipal lots. But some say there really isn't a parking problem. Like when's the last time you couldn't find a spot within a half block of a downtown business? That must be the reason the Knights of Columbus apparently decided to declare their parking lot off limits. There are too many other spots available downtown. But the move seems to have a few postal workers are on the verge of going postal over this little alteration, which has pushed about 50 cars elsewhere. This raises some suspicions. No one uses the KofC lot during the daytime. Why would this charitable, religious-based organization want to ban any use of this lot when it's not being used for KofC functions. Anyone care to guess?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guess they are like everyone else in this world nowadays. It's mine and you can't use it. Actually it may be because they are not doing very well, so they are forced to try and rent out what used to be hall #3. If they rent that out as an office, they probably want to reserve that parking for their tenants. Can't blame them for that. Bet if all businesses downtown had their own parking, they wouldn't complain all of the time about parking. There must be a problem though, since we have all heard about a parking problem downtown for twenty five years or more now. Give them a parking garage or deck or whatever they seem to need, and then see if the business owners were right. Seems that they would know if they need parking for their employees and customers, and it couldn't hurt downtown revitalization either.

26 October, 2006  

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