Fw: [Mintwood-place] New parking signs on Mintwood Place

[ahuff at worldbank.org]

I do not believe that this will reduce the double parking, but time will tell.


Until then, I suggest an act of civil disobedience:

..we rotate residents sitting on lawn chairs in the new parking spots until such
time as the spots are returned to the residents, or..


..compromise position - Kalorama Guest House enters into a "revenue sharing"
agreement with each resident on Mintwood Pl to refund the cost of our parking
permits, in exchange for their right to accommodate their paying guest.


Regards, Angela ;)




I object to the idea that this is necessarily a loss for "regular, tax-paying
citizens."  Those citizens who choose to own cars and park them on public
streets will be marginally inconvenienced by the decision.  But there are many
of us "regular, tax-paying citizens" who don't own cars or who own cars but have
realized that it is impracticable to rely on public streets for parking.  We
clearly benefit from the reduction in double parking.

David Wild

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[mailto:mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org] On Behalf Of Menda Fife
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:45 PM
To: ahuff at worldbank.org; mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Mintwood-place] New parking signs on Mintwood Place

Score one for business - zero for regular, tax-paying citizens.

ahuff at worldbank.org wrote:
 Dear Jeff Selingo,

 Geez,

 The reason for the double parking is the lack of available spaces in ratio to
 the number of cars looking for parking. This poor decision only exacerbates the
 problem.

 What about the people that are FORCED to park in front of the fire hydrant to
 check in or put their name on a list or how ever they justify it. DDOT doesn't
 concern themselves with that problem and it is a much greater liability, don't
 they know.

 And what recourse do citizens have?

 Kind regards, Angela
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 Here's more information from DDOT on the Mintwood spaces. Yet another bad
 decision....

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Smith, Harold J. (DDOT)
 To: Heymann, Alan (COUNCIL) ; Wiktor, Denise (DDOT)
 Cc: 'jim at grahamwone.com' ; 'jeff at selingo.com'
 Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:54 PM
 Subject: RE: [Mintwood-place] New parking signs on Mintwood Place

 Mr. Heymann

 The space abutting the Kalorama Guest House, 1852/1854 had been unrestricted
 for
 a number of years. Guest attempting to check into the guest house have been
 force to double park and completely block traffic on this very narrow
 residential street. "15 Minute Parking, Hotel Pick Up and Drop Off" signs were
 installed, in the unrestricted space, to eliminate the double parking and
 blocking of traffic.From: Menda Fife
 To: mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org
 Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:06 PM
 Subject: [Mintwood-place] New parking signs on Mintwood
 Place

 Just noticed these tonight. Two hour until 8:30pm is
 great, but who decided for the exclusive -- what seems
 to be -- 24 hour, 15 minute loading and unloading in
 front of the Guest House. Great that their guests
 won't be doubled parked anymore, but two more parking
 spaces are now gone.

 Please correct me if I'm seeing this wrong.

 Thanks to all.

 Menda - 1860 Mintwood

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