The city has changed a dozen or so spots to 2 hour parking taking away the VERY needed residential spots. They clearly favor the businesses over residents needs. The least the city can do is put up signs allowing residential permit holders to be exempt from the 2 hour limit. They have those signs on Wooster Street, why not here?

I do my best to see things from both sides: I run a business on Bradley (previously referenced Bike Shop) and live on Pearl St.

The city recently painted State Street with line stripes and also reset all adjacent the side streets to be compliant with the zoning regulations of the BA zone in an effort to make our neighborhood better. It helps clean things up and supports both businesses and residents who live on and around State St. I think (or hope?) we all can agree that the street looks better!

The reality that we all know is that the whole State Street neighborhood, residential and commercial, has a major parking deficiency. The last study I have says that State Street has a parking shortfall of 257 spaces. Sadly, we can't magically make that appear. I think enforcement is very important, and more of these posts will help that. I think the idea of the residential exemption on some streets is also a good one, and should be looked at together by both businesses and residents. I think the notion that resident's needs are more important than business's needs is very misguided. We should all be working to have a symbiotic+healthy relationship with our local neighbors, businesses or residents. We are all taxpayers, and we all contribute to making our city better. Both sides need to do better.

I don’t believe I stated the the residents needs are more important than the businesses but that the city favors business needs over residents.We should all have an equal voice but it doesn’t feel that we do. If I came across as anti business that was not my intent. I believe many residents are just so frustrated when they get home and can’t park. I can see the needs of both sides and I do think an even compromise would be permit exempt signs but how do residents go about getting such signs installed?

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