04-30-2015, 01:21 PM
If the businesses are interested in offering their patrons "free" parking, they should invite people in to their stores to reimburse their parking charges. The mall pays for (some of) their patrons to park; it doesn't ask for the taxpayers to do it.
No period of on-street parking should be without a charge to the person actually using it. If there are downtown employees willing to leave their workplace every two hours to move their car from one street parking space to another one outside of the core, obviously those street parking places are valuable commodities and we should be charging for them. It's not so much the 5-hour "no reparking" rule that is the problem; it's that two hours are offered "free" in the first place.
No period of on-street parking should be without a charge to the person actually using it. If there are downtown employees willing to leave their workplace every two hours to move their car from one street parking space to another one outside of the core, obviously those street parking places are valuable commodities and we should be charging for them. It's not so much the 5-hour "no reparking" rule that is the problem; it's that two hours are offered "free" in the first place.