Re: [ihc] RE: Parking lots? Yeah, right...

[John Hofstetter <hofs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:53 AM, Jim Grammer wrote:

> And speaking of 'exacerbate', somehow real estate developers(in CA
> anyway)have convinced city/county planners that 2 lines 8-9' apart
> constitute a parking space for purposes of fulfilling the space count
> required by planning standards. This in the face of laws that pretty 
> much
> nationwide allow vehicles to be 102" wide.
Some of the California Mother Lode towns such as Sutter Creek and my 
hometown of Murphys, have become tourist magnets with every downtown 
building being an art gallery, antique store, or the like. Turning 
Jim's parking spaces into parking lanes, but filling those lanes with 
Hummers, Expeditions, Excursions, and the like means that the roadway 
is too narrow for 2 lanes of traffic when trucks or RV's are in those 
lanes.

Somebody suggested the Murphys make one side of the street "No Parking" 
so that the roadway could be widened. Guess how far that idea went with 
the owners of the new gold producing businesses?

When I go through town pulling my vacation trailer, I try not to look 
at my right side rear mirror, as it's too scary for me to deal with. I 
concentrate on the vehicles coming toward me, a foot or two over the 
center line.

John

John Hofstetter
Ol' Saline
www.goldrush.com/~hofs