Residential Parking Permits being discussed again.

Personally, I'd just rather pay more taxes then have to put some sticker on my car that allows me to park somewhere but will exclude me from parking elsewhere unless I want to pay through the nose for some parking garage or be stuck running out to feel the new meter every one or two hours (and those meters aren't cheap btw, which I'm not complaining about, I'm just saying, they do take credit cards which is cool)

whynot_31 wrote: I think parking permits will be a boon to parking garages.

I'm going to invest in one of those.

I'm just going to park my car in your dining room. You'll never even notice it.

whynot_31 wrote: Is your car also spotless?

...you aren't going to visit it, are you?

It's covered in leaves and bird poop. Dude will love it.

he'd roll in it.

...as long as you aren't going to visit it, and then kill me for being male, I'll take your car.

http://whatyourdonotknowbecauseyouarenotme.blogspot.com/2009/05/look-at-all-this-parking.html

I think everyone is missing the boat entirely. Permits, schmermits! They won't work, and you would kill businesses in the area if you tried any kind of permit parking during the day. Park Slope used to have public parking lots way back when (mostly along 5th Ave), and not the kind that cost $20 a day. They were municipal lots that were cheap, but they were closed down and built upon. People in community should be demanding that there be adequate parking built in to every new housing unit that goes up. Even small condos. All those monstrosities along 4th Avenue should have several floors of parking built in, city subsidized so residents and visitors alike can park in there for the same price as the meters outside. At least they'd serve some useful purpose that way.

Gotta agree with V. If I didn't need a car for certain reasons, I wouldn't own one. I almost never drive to Park Slope or Manhattan unless it's for something too cumbersome to carry on a subway. I long for the day when I can sell/donate the damn thing.

Well, myself and every other restaurant owner in Park Slope would be able to confirm that we watch our customers run out to feed the meters while they are having their meals. So, if you think that people don't come from all over Brooklyn to visit our wonderful restaurants, and that it helps business because they do, then perhaps I'm not alone in needing my head examined. Listen, l agree with less cars in general. But since they are a reality that's not going away, creative solutions are needed, that are not merely ways for the city to issue more tickets and rip off residents and non-residents alike for more of their hard-earned bucks.

I don't even get what all the fuss is anyway. Parking hassles, traffic, it's all part of owning a car. If those things make you crazy, then you probably shouldn't own one. But if you drive, and you don't like how things are, I don't think the rest of the world needs to jump through hoops to accommodate you. So parking in the Slope stinks, as it does in many other places. I lived in Bay Ridge for 15 years, and trust me, it was worse. But did I try and get the city to add more regulations to make my life easier? How absurd! Aren't all the tickets they issue for meters and alternate side, and parking 2 inches too close to a pump enough? No, I allowed myself more time to park and understood that was part of life in the big city!

They should be at least $2.00 and hour 9AM - 7PM

please, I was down in the east village & turtle bay area and it was 50 cents for fifteen minutes with a two hour limit and the meters take credit cards.

LongTimeSloper wrote: ...Parking in Park Slope got much pricier this week — but it also could get a bit easier...Proponents told The Brooklyn Paper that the higher fees will stop drivers who park on Fifth Avenue between Sackett and Third streets, and Seventh Avenue between Lincoln Place and Sixth Street from lollygagging — making it easier to find spaces on the thruways and potentially bringing more customers to neighborhood shops.

Lollygagging?!? Something about that word is off-putting in this context - Unless the city is to only issue licenses to people who have a "legitimate" need for a car - anyone of legal age with a license should be able to park at a legal spot without busybodies wondering if they're lollygagging or not.

I would assume most of the taken metered spots are local storeowners and workers who park and feed the meters all day.

I'm gonna assume that anyone willing to drive into the parking/traffic hellhole that is ParkSlope during business hours has shit to do - and are staying just long enough to do what they gotta do before getting out of there.