I had a lengthy discussion about this last night, and I've concluded that this
will be good for the business' downtown. Too many spots held all day by
residents and others who were not shopping. I know a guy from Ocean who parked
on Cookman to take the train into NYC because he felt his car was safer there.
(He also sparked the convo last night)
My point is that's one free'd up space for several people to shop with now. If
people are parking there because they work downtown....I say suck it up. I pay
$22 a day to park at my job.
This is going to create turnover.....good turnover, which is something that has
been non existent downtown.
Store owners should look into vouchers, work with the Chamber of Commerce, I
see a lot of other stores that do this in other towns/cities
I just feel this is going to be a good thing, it may take time for it to show,
but it will be good
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-----Original Message-----
From: "dfsavgny" <dfsav...@yahoo.com>
Sender: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:14:37
To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Downtown paid parking went into effect today
It was Tuesday. It looks like a ghost town because the folks who were keeping
their cars there for free are not parking there. So it was a false level of
activity with the cars there. Believe me, folks that were driving into AP and
eat at the restaurants are NOT not coming because of two extra bucks.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote:
>
> One of my downtown friends just texted me and said downtown looks like a
> ghost town tonight.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@> wrote:
> >
> > As long as you continue to jam apartments and condos in using smart
> > ridiculous calculation for a packed downtown like asbury you will continue
> > he to have a parking rp lemon. That's why towns have zoning ordinances
> > based on type of business is how much parking you need. Its been a problem
> > and will continue to be a problem. No one wants to pay more rent or more
> > taxes but wants publicity loans police and snow plowing....and customers.
> > Lots of places give a coupon in place es like Middletown. Or one hour free
> > parking. Does the downtown have 15you minutes spots like along the ocean.
> >
>
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