Downtown parking may be a good example. Consider a few thoughts with respect to employee parking in the downtown Menlo Park area, as follows:
1) There are approx. 600 employees working downtown. Approx. 100 have purchased all day parking permits, approx. another 200 are parking in over crowded residential neighborhoods and the remaining 300 or so employees MOVE THEIR CARS every one or two hours.
2) Does moving a car from lot to lot or across the street in the despirate effort to avoid a $45.00 overtime parking ticket help, or hinder the problem?
3) Does employee moving their cars all day long help the environment? What value is there is starting and stopping one's engine, 4 times a day?
4) How many doors get chipped, dinged and scrapped by the constant moving of cars and what is the true cost of having those dings repaired?
I understand that the downtown parking one and two hour rules were approved by the City Council years ago. Isn't it about time that 2014 thinking go into the solution?
For the answer, just walk up and down Santa Cruz Avenue and adjacent streets and talk face to face with merchants. If so, you'll likely get an ear full.
