'We are capable of using a parking meter'
Thank you
Carla Blanco
Coconut Grove
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People are furious over the valet parking issue. Comments may be seen here and here on our Facebook page.
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Many cities use familiar old style parking meters redesigned to accept credit cards, greenbacks and coins, paybyphone numbers can be posted right there next to the space. No more hunting for the right number, no more hunting for the evasive payment printer machine, no more question of do I leave the receipt on the dash or is the tag number sufficient. The current systwm SUCKS. Maybe the new valets can help with instructions to find the signs and machines and how to operate them. Hey MPA what you are job is not rocket science and parking shouldn't be either.
I don't write a lot about this topic but the reality is that we don't have access to parking spaces. That is, this is not necessarily an inventory problem but the lack of accessibility creates the shortage. On street parking is limited and parking lots are spread around. Urban areas without a centralized parking system solves this with strategic valet parking or golf cart style trolleys that drive you around or better signage and indications/signaling for parking.
I enjoy walking around Coconut Grove. Walking to the park garage or meter allows me to run in friends and neighbors. It also gives me a change to see the new businesses. I will not be using valet and neither should you.
We pay for roads, sidewalks and other public infrastructure thru taxes. It takes municipal planners,engineers and sometimes community involvement to get the shovels moving . Then along comes a private enterprise that cuts a deal with the city and all the factors that were considered in the initial planning are invalidated . Public property becomes essentially private. The parking spaces we paid for now belong to a restaurant that arrived long after the work was done but now has arranged with the city to charge the folks that live here an absurd premium to park in THEIR now private parking space even if that local resident only needs to pick up the laundry or buy a toothbrush. That level of arrogance needs be recognized . That total disregard for the community needs to be addressed ,first at the government level and secondly as a financial incentive to the perpetuators to correct their behavior. I will not use valet parking in the Grove and I will not frequent any restaurant that has valet parking.
Miami Parking Authority is catching the heat for this unpopular decision but it is the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District that wanted it to happen. Here's the BID Board. Not a single citizen's advocate among them.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2017-2018
Coconut Grove Business Improvement District Board Members 2017-2018:
Ken Russell – Commissioner City of Miami District II
Arthur Noriega – CEO, Miami Parking Authority
Maria Vieira – Whalou Properties, Offices at the Mayfair
William Rivas – CocoWalk
Matthew Kuscher – Kush Hospitality
Monty Trainer – Coconut Grove Arts Festival
Raymond Fort – Arquitectonica
Donna De Michael – Bayshore Management Group
Chris Cobb – Grass River Properties
Steven Keup – Residence Inn
Olaf Kohrsmeyer – Whalou Properties, Offices at the Mayfair
Nick Hamann – Urban Atlantic Group LLC
Thomas Langone – Courtyard by Marriott
H.H. Bredemeier – H&H Jewels
Lalo Durazo – Jaguar Hospitality Group
Michael Comras – The Comras Company
Grant Savage- Sabal Hill
Lauren Carra – Terra Development
Claire Lardner – FrameWorks
Non-Voting Ex- Officio Members:
Joe Harrison – Property Owner
Scott Silver – Grouper Financial
You mean to say so many brains and no common sense.
Your collective comments are a common denominator to reality, not my opinion. Are you folks serious? You have no rights or opinion that counts. There are so many, many humans about, here, there, everywhere. Space in urban centers is frankly dear. Walk, bicycle, Uber, drive, bus, metro rail or levitate - things are a changing right before our very eyes. Relax, move ahead, enjoy, drink a coffee, say hello to friends and strangers, enjoy the bay, boats, blue skies, shops, dogs, kids, baby carriages , humanity and COCONUT GROVE because things are a changing. Jobie Steppe
Arguing over parking spaces....doesn't get much more miami than this. There are way more important things to worry about people. Anyways everyone should be driving less and using alternative modes of transportation, its more sustainable. There should actually be LESS parking to incentivize use of sustainable transit and to make our streets more pedestrian friendly!
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