[Vision2020] Customers Need Parking

Wayne Price bear at moscow.com
Thu Jul 30 15:49:21 PDT 2009 

Bill,

How can the city refuse to sell city parking permits to NSA students  
or staff?
That law suit will cost us a bundle!








On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Bill London wrote:

> D-
> You implied in your previous V2020 post that Bode's perspective was
> incorrect or incomplete.
> Please explain where Bode is wrong.
> Will the city now be selling permits that allow permitees to fill  
> spaces in
> the Jackson Street lot (spaces that could be filled by customer cars?)
> Will the city restrict the permits to employees of downtown  
> merchants and
> not allow NSA students/staff to buy them?
> BL
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
> Cc: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>
>
>> Courtesy of today's (July 30, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News
>>
>> City to issue 85 downtown parking permits
>>
>> The city of Moscow has announced it will limit the number of downtown
>> parking permits available for purchase to 85.
>>
>> Permit purchasers will be asked to complete a brief survey to provide
>> input
>> about the primary use of the permit and which lots are expected to  
>> see the
>> most use.
>>
>> Changes to the downtown parking configuration made July 13 by the  
>> Moscow
>> City Council included the creation of one class of downtown parking  
>> permit
>> to replace the previous green and yellow permits.
>>
>> The new permits will cost $75 each per year - less than the price  
>> of the
>> previous $375 green and $250 yellow permits.
>>
>> The city set the 85-permit limit and created the survey in response  
>> to
>> concerns it has received about selling out of permits and possible
>> limitations on customer parking for downtown businesses.
>>
>> For information, call Les MacDonald at (208) 883-7028, or e-mail
>> lmacdonald<@ci.moscow.id.us.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
>> ]
>> On Behalf Of Dan Carscallen
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:54 AM
>> Cc: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>>
>> Mr. Bode's letter was evidently written a little early.
>>
>> Stay tuned.
>>
>> DC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
>> ]
>> On Behalf Of Joe Campbell
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:47 AM
>> To: Tom Hansen
>> Cc: Moscow Vision 2020
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>>
>> Maybe there would be parking downtown if they didn't allow schools in
>> the business district. Oh, that's right. They don't!
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:28 AM, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Courtesy of today's (July 30, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with
>>> special
>>> thanks to Tom Bode.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Customers need parking
>>>
>>> On July 6, the Moscow City Council passed a motion to reduce the
>>> price of
>>> parking permits in the Jackson Street parking lots to $75 per year
>>> ($6.25/month or 21 cents/day).
>>>
>>> The chief reason given for inexpensive permits is to get employees  
>>> and
>>> owners off of Main Street and into the Jackson Street lots. I
>>> believe the
>>> effect of selling cheap permits will put many cars in these lots
>>> that will
>>> sit there all day. In fact, this is what your City Council desires.
>>> Either
>>> the council didn't think through, or just doesn't care, that the
>>> effect of
>>> this reduces the customer's opportunity to find a parking space. If
>>> spaces
>>> aren't turning over through the day, how will customers of the
>>> downtown
>>> find parking?
>>>
>>> I was told this idea of cheap parking permits came from Moscow
>>> Chamber of
>>> Commerce director Steven Hacker. I am shocked that the chamber would
>>> push
>>> an idea that limits the downtown customers' opportunity to find
>>> parking,
>>> so that the employees and owners can park in prime parking spaces. I
>>> was
>>> taught in every aspect of my business education to put the customers
>>> first.
>>>
>>> In January 1978, Mayor Mann accepted a check from downtown
>>> businesses to
>>> pay off the balance of the debt on the Jackson Street lots. The City
>>> Council passed a resolution in which they agreed to keep the Jackson
>>> Street lots for downtown customers.
>>>
>>> The current council, many of who claim to be pro-business, has now
>>> deviated 180 degrees from that agreement, by encouraging employees
>>> to park
>>> in those lots.
>>>
>>> If you find over the next year you are having trouble finding a
>>> space to
>>> park in the Jackson Street lots, make sure you let the mayor, her
>>> staff,
>>> the council and the chamber know how you feel about it.
>>>
>>> Thomas Bode, Moscow
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Concerning the Jackson Street "Park it and Forget it" parking
>>> lot . . .
>>>
>>> The fall semester for UI students, as well as NSA students, should
>>> prove
>>> very interesting and, more importanly, convenient.
>>>
>>> A parking space may cost a student only 21 cents per day. How much
>>> is the
>>> loss of that same parking space costing Main Street proprietors?
>>>
>>> Just another example of Moscow's pro-business city council.
>>>
>>> I guess we can always reopen Moscow's old livery stable at First and
>>> Main.
>>>
>>> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1800s_FirstMain_Stable.jpg
>>>
>>> Seeya round town, Moscow
>>>
>>> Tom Hansen
>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>
>>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>>> change
>>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>>
>>> - Unknown
>>>
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