After my surface parking ramp, it appears that there are plans in the works to at least try and fix it around the edges. According to the City Pulse, there is currently a
wholesale review of the city's over-night street parking ban with emphasis on potentially scrapping it, and the pilot program on a street on the eastside has been wildly successful:
Parking predicament
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Andy Kilpatrick, director of the city’s Public Services Department, said officials in 2005 eliminated the overnight ban on Horton Street at the request of neighborhood residents. And it’s been so successful that they’ve allowed it to continue. Just two blocks running north from East Michigan Avenue till it dead ends, Horton is the only street in the city where its residents needn’t worry about tickets.
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In the neighborhoods, ostensibly put into place to allow for better street-cleaning, emergency vehicle movement, ect. what it really was was property owners in single-family neighborhoods guarding the frontage of their homes like hawks to prevent both neighbors and their visitors from parking in front of their homes. Because. But it's very rarely ever enforced, so there is a movement in some neighborhoods that abolish it if the city won't enforce it, though I'd bet the bigger movement is to keep it. Anyway, this could make for better land-use patterns in the neighborhoods by taking some of the parking requirements off the properties, themselves. Not 100% sure, but I think a street spot could count towards the parking minimums.
EDIT: Found out this is more geared towards the business districts than residential neighborhoods, and it's only one proposal.
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