JadedJC wrote:
No kidding. There's a little one-way street that empties onto Grand between Grove and Marin. Currently the developer/owner of 225 Grand maintains the street (not the city), so city parking rules don't apply. The way I understand it, only 225 Grand residents (those who don't pay to park in the building's garage) can park on that little street. A silver VW station wagon has been parked about 15 feet from the stop sign since last summer. I walk by there at least twice a day and I can tell you, that thing hasn't budged since at least July or August. Kind of defeats the purpose of owning a car if you're so afraid of losing a parking spot that you don't drive it anywhere. Ever.

leigh13 wrote:
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Vigilante wrote:

Once again, the great un-intended benefit of street sweeping is to shake up the people who park like d-bags.

Agreed. When street sweeping was suspended last winter for all of January and February, there were people who didn't move their car for weeks or even months. Once all the snow was gone and street sweeping started back up, I saw a few neighbors with cars that wouldn't even start after sitting that long.

You can bet without the hassle of moving for the parking rules, more people would keep a car in the street even if they rarely needed it.

Vigilante wrote:

Once again, the great un-intended benefit of street sweeping is to shake up the people who park like d-bags.

Vigilante wrote:
Today on my block there were 5 cars parked that had left as much as 6 to 7 feet between each vehicle. It was a display of either complete selfishness or complete ineptitude. The sweepers at the very least keep the cars moving every couple of days and that's fine with me.

Having to find parking is a harassment. Our streets are not dirty!

teacher wrote:
Complain to Fulop, and perhaps after a year he will help. Also we should have more free spots. The signs limit too many spots near corners. Just look at the corner of York and Grove...we could easily have 4-6 more spots here. I also think all muni-lots should be free overnight, until the muni workers get it 9am, as WE pay for the lots.

teacher wrote:
The signs limit too many spots near corners. Just look at the corner of York and Grove...we could easily have 4-6 more spots here.

teacher wrote:
Perhaps they can stop with the Saturday morning street cleaning..really a nuisance.
$52 dollars..nice offer, they'll extort what they want, and if you don't pay..then the next owner will.
My dream is to have a city government that actually likes their residents

gibbons70 wrote:
This city has street sweeping???

ianmac47 wrote:
The street cleaners tend to move way too fast to really do a thorough job. Also there would be better results if people were hired to pick up trash manually as is done in many, cleaner European cities.

But as was previously mentioned, street cleaning here is not about cleaning streets, but generating revenue. If the city were worried about cleanliness, there would be more litter cans and there would be litter crews to clean up at least the commercial streets.

But when the citizens keep whining over how high their taxes are, the only option for government is to cut services to balance budgets and find alternative revenue streams.

GrovePath wrote:
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ianmac47 wrote:
...But when the citizens keep whining over how high their taxes are, the only option for government is to cut services...

Yeah -- those terrible whining property taxpaying owners!

ianmac47 wrote:
...But when the citizens keep whining over how high their taxes are, the only option for government is to cut services...

ianmac47 wrote:
But when the citizens keep whining over how high their taxes are, the only option for government is to cut services to balance budgets and find alternative revenue streams.