[Durham INC] Parking on Ninth Street

[Kelly J]

So I read in today's paper that the Chartwell, the company doing all the development on west side of ninth street purchased the parking lot and is hiking the city's lease from $3000/year to $85,500/year? Again--this just exemplifies how these outside groups drain money from our local economies. So they're bringing in national chains that compete with our local businesses, providing free subsidized parking to the patrons of these national chains, exponentially hiking the city's parking costs for existing businesses, and asking us to introduce new expenses for people who want to patronize our local businesses? 

I hope we come up with some more innovative ideas than simply giving into this? How about taxing the spaces in the Chartwell lots at a rate that will offset the $82,000/year hike they're asking the city to absorb? I just think its wrong to introduce something like this that penalizes the businesses and customers who have built 9th Street and supported it during some pretty lean years. 

The problem of employee parking for these businesses is valid though, as is the perennial problem of landlord rent hikes that drive away businesses there. I do support some creative thinking on the 9th Street employee parking issue--perhaps something could be worked out with Asbury Methodist Church or something? 

Kelly


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On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Kelly J <kjj1bg at yahoo.com> wrote:

If we have to support parking and public transit, I would suggest we raise the property taxes on the ocean lots that discourage walking and public transportation and divert more of the money spent there to their shareholders. The local businesses on ninth street provide a much better return on investment in the local economy. 

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On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Will Wilson <willwilsn at gmail.com> wrote:

Isn't free parking something like the tax incentives we give big companies, except something that's relevant and critical for small businesses?

I fear that without free parking in these areas, we're going to lose these neat businesses.

Will

On 10/24/2013 5:41 PM, Pat Carstensen wrote:
> Although I believe that we should charge for parking on Ninth Street
> only when SouthPointe does, I am passing on this story about "smart"
> parking systems, where the goal is to set the price by location and
> time of day so there is always some spots for the people willing to
> pay.
> http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/10/how-seattle-transformed-parking-without-spending-fortune/7348/
Regards, pat                       
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