No Parking Meters in Summit Neighborhood/Hope Street
The Issue
We the undersigned urge the City of Providence to CEASE plans to install parking meters in Providence’s neighborhoods including Summit.
We are not downtown commercial districts, we are neighborhoods, and meters will diminish the unique charm and feel that draws both residents and shoppers. Meters will cause problems and inconveniences for residents and merchants alike; motorists will attempt to avoid meters by congesting residential side-streets, or they will avoid the area altogether, resulting in a drop in revenue for the small, independently-owned, brick and mortar businesses so vital to Providence.
Invading our neighborhoods with parking meters does little to solve the financial woes of Providence and is yet another regressive tax. While one expects to find meters in a downtown cityscape, those who choose to live in residential neighborhoods do not expect to have unsightly parking meters as part of their landscape, or to have to pay to support their small, local shopkeepers.
With an endless flow of downtown tax abatements, and Brown University and other non-profits using so many city services while negotiating pitifully small financial contributions to Providence, parking meters in our neighborhoods add insult to injury. Merchants have been told that meters are being installed as a favor, to increase parking turnover. Many merchants contend that there is no problem with parking turnover and that meters would hurt their businesses, rather than help.
Meters have the potential to drive even more business out of the city; the City of Providence should make it a priority to help generate growth and move our economy forward. Meters are short-sighted, regressive and inappropriate for our demographics. Enforcing the current two hour parking limit, as well as ticketing for traffic violations such as speeding in our neighborhoods, running stop signs, and failing to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, would likely raise more money than meters when factoring in the cost of purchase, installation and maintenance. Please sign this petition against parking meters in our quaint Providence neighborhoods.
This petition is NOT affiliated with HSMA or SNA.
The Issue
We the undersigned urge the City of Providence to CEASE plans to install parking meters in Providence’s neighborhoods including Summit.
We are not downtown commercial districts, we are neighborhoods, and meters will diminish the unique charm and feel that draws both residents and shoppers. Meters will cause problems and inconveniences for residents and merchants alike; motorists will attempt to avoid meters by congesting residential side-streets, or they will avoid the area altogether, resulting in a drop in revenue for the small, independently-owned, brick and mortar businesses so vital to Providence.
Invading our neighborhoods with parking meters does little to solve the financial woes of Providence and is yet another regressive tax. While one expects to find meters in a downtown cityscape, those who choose to live in residential neighborhoods do not expect to have unsightly parking meters as part of their landscape, or to have to pay to support their small, local shopkeepers.
With an endless flow of downtown tax abatements, and Brown University and other non-profits using so many city services while negotiating pitifully small financial contributions to Providence, parking meters in our neighborhoods add insult to injury. Merchants have been told that meters are being installed as a favor, to increase parking turnover. Many merchants contend that there is no problem with parking turnover and that meters would hurt their businesses, rather than help.
Meters have the potential to drive even more business out of the city; the City of Providence should make it a priority to help generate growth and move our economy forward. Meters are short-sighted, regressive and inappropriate for our demographics. Enforcing the current two hour parking limit, as well as ticketing for traffic violations such as speeding in our neighborhoods, running stop signs, and failing to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, would likely raise more money than meters when factoring in the cost of purchase, installation and maintenance. Please sign this petition against parking meters in our quaint Providence neighborhoods.
This petition is NOT affiliated with HSMA or SNA.
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Petition created on March 17, 2016