HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-01107 - Chapter 172 Parking Requirements (Amendment) (6)
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From:Karen Mueller <karen@karenmueller.net>
Sent:Sunday, January 5, 2025 1:24 PM
To:CityClerk
Subject:Proposed rule change to provide adequate parking with new developments
Categories:Jonathan
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I live at 321 S. East Ave. and was against the traffic/parking issues that were allowed with the Urban Lofts development
at Nelson Hackett and South Street.
I agree with my neighbors who have stated the following:
1) Spillover parking is real and can erode neighborhood conditions. We have all seen the "No Feed and Folly Parking
Here" signs at the restaurant at College and Rock streets. That is an undesirable situation for both the restaurant and the
next-door chiropractor business!
2) The way to reduce car dependence is first to build a reliable, affordable public transit system with frequent stops and
thorough coverage across the region. After that is in place then these parking credits will make sense and the credits can
be brought back.
3) Car usage is an unfortunate part of life in NWA and the USA in general. Providing parking at residences is common
sense and directly relates to quality of life issues.
4) Reducing parking for commercial areas is useful; this is very different from reducing parking at residences! (No one
lives at WalMart)
5) Don't all Fayetteville residents deserve a place to park close to their home? Why are apartment dwellers being
treated differently? The current parking credit rule only affects apartment buildings, not single family residences.
6) Promoting on-street parking can be helpful to make good neighborhoods. The existing parking credit system is clumsy
and hurts more than it helps. There have to be better and more effective ways to promote and support more on-street
parking.
7) If Urban Lofts had been required to park 1 car per bedroom it would have gone a long way towards helping us build a
stronger neighborhood. This 1:1 residential parking rule has been the national standard for decades and we need to go
back to it.
Thank you,
Karen Mueller
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