Mack on the Mayor's technocratic/progressive parking plans
In her column last week, Kristen Mack wrote the following about Mayor White's parking priorities:
Last week, the city created a 15-member public parking commission — composed of nine voting members with experience in the field and six non-voting members representing the city, county and Metropolitan Transit Authority.
The idea is to create a body whose mission will be to create a"forum for input on present and future parking needs and plans for citizens, stakeholders and other interested parties."
But downtown parking is a touchy subject. It doesn't help that parking has been managed poorly for years, and that many residents, and even some elected officials, believe that the city's motivations have more to do with revenue generation than parking management.
White hopes to change that perception, and the City Council apparently is on board. It approved the parking commission unanimously.
Parking is being restructured under one umbrella, moving from municipal courts to the Convention and Entertainment Department, which already manages the 7,500 parking spaces in city-owned lots.
The city has to sell this carefully. Critics will say that the city is creating a new government bureaucracy only to create a new revenue stream.
Hey, that sounds familiar!
Does this mean we've graduated from mere bloggers to actual critics?
And does it also mean that it's now even LESS likely that Mayor White's communications staff is going to honor our repeated requests to be added to their press release email list?
Probably so on the latter.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/08/05 12:12 AM | Print | Comments (2)
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