Does this old photo grab your attention?!
I hope so.
Have you heard about Street Parking Permits being required in a few small areas of Provo?
So far, the existing areas give out 2 street parking permits per residence. That part of it is ok.
But keep on reading…. have you all seen this news about the Joaquin Neighborhood?!
The current Municipal Council could choose to do nothing and let the permit program automatically begin Sept. 1, 2011, or they may opt to look at the program again to see if it needs modifying or changing.
Because of the likelihood that new council members will want to address the permit program, it too will have to be put on the fast track, if changes are made.
“I was very surprised to hear from the mayor the development was back on,” said Kurt Peterson, Joaquin neighborhood chairman. “There is no waiting, we have to address the South Joaquin neighborhood parking issues. We don’t want to do anything that will make it harder for the owner.”
Peterson said the north neighborhood was approved with the parking permit program set in place earlier. With the development a go, the south neighborhood, which has more owner-occupied homes, needs to have the parking permit issue addressed for their streets.
“They have to preserve the South Joaquin neighborhood residents,” Peterson said. “They don’t want it to be a parking lot.”
source: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_5e5dff76-c835-5819-ac85-8c2a88d1f226.html – Aug. 12th, 2010
Where’s the problem?! The details are the problem — the details are different (see section 9.85.070) — they give more respect to owner occupants than they do to poor renters who can’t afford to buy their own property.
This ordinance is discriminatory. It does not treat all citizens as equals before the law.
Owner occupants get MORE parking permits than owner landlords or renters who are too poor to own property.
Very, very misguided and sad. Good goals are not justified by poor means and double standards! And this issue is related to the existing discriminatory zoning ordinances and bad feelings from some of the neighbors.
P.S. Their rationalization as treating some citizens as second class is very disappointing — sad once you consider what some of them profess to believe, or at least the church that they belong to. I think if they really believed what their church teaches, then they wouldn’t have such double standards enacted into law. We’re all equal before God and why shouldn’t we be equal before the law?! Stop the rationalization!
More on this later… for now see http://provocitizens.net/initiative/talkingpoints.html
Roger L. Brown