Keep the support coming!  Every signature counts and we appreciate your support and shares tremendously!

To clear up or avoid any confusion, we are not against BRT - we are only requesting that we can find a way to co-exist and BOTH parties can thrive. This makes it difficult. They previously removed our olin side parking spots and made that a bus stop without notice a year or two ago. Then claimed it was always right there! 

Our street parking may not seem essential to some, but these spaces are necessary for not only parking, but deliveries and customer loading as well.  And with 60% of business generated from commercial house accounts and maintenance companies, they are not going to visit if it is difficult.. parking spaces out front allows customers to load up 30 bags that weigh 50lbs each, or 2 complete toilets, etc.

Removing our driveway is not feasible, since we obviously can not drive our forklift over a curb.  The olin driveway is single width, therefore vehicles entering and exiting at the same time is not possible.

Not to mention the proposed curb that has been marked on the sidewalk, leaves not only a narrow 3ft sidewalk up against our building, but also takes away our space for pallets of heavy bagged goods. 

This narrow of a sidewalk would not accomodate a motorized wheelchair for example, with pedestrians and customers leaving the store at the same time (sometimes carrying a 10ft length pipe). There will not be enough of a safe buffer from traffic.

What we are proposing is for the allowance of the existing spaces to remain in front of our store where it is necessary to operate. Previous plans had shown revisions that they would leave the parking alone in front of us and a few other businesses on Park St. 

Thanks for considering with an open mind to help local small businesses like ours survive another 50+years. Many other Park St businesses appreciate the support as well in regards to this matter.