Event Parking

[CrossroadsUrbanApts]

(None of the above is meant to prove that this new Event Parking is unworthy of criticism, just providing the intellectual justification for charging for parking).

Frankly, I think it crazy that it is not crystal clear whether or not Event Parking prices apply to the first two hours of parking at the curb. And whether or not a River Market event affects pricing in the Loop or Crossroads, and vice versa. Seems like a huge own goal.

[UMKCroo]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/a ... 89474.html

The rag has spoken.

[KCPowercat]

This is how a city should work. Good job KCMO. BTW event parking by my estimation wasn't as wide spread as people were trying to claim it was in these stories.

Still the overall rollout letting LAZ do the parking management has been very poor.

[phuqueue]

What is the purpose of paid on street parking and, if you say it’s to encourage more customers to visit retail, then why wouldn’t you make the first hour free. Let’s be honest, paid parking has nothing to do with encouraging retail or helping the businesses in the area. So, it’s either a money grab by government with ticketing and courts and police or it’s a method to actually limit people coming downtown by suburban politicians so they visit similar businesses closer to home. Why would we encourage any of it? It does no good for business downtown and could actually drive business away in a very real sense. What are you fighting for here? What do you get being in the side of government activity regulators?

Sorry, traveling this week, not able to respond quickly to things. Appreciate CrossroadsUrbanApts replying to the part of this that asks what the purpose of paid street parking is. I recommend reading those books, or at least reading the articles about the books at those links. Paid street parking is not about retail at all, it's about managing finite street space. But as far as your concerns about retail, it is worth noting (again) that downtown's golden age occurred before it was gutted to provide easy parking (and I would also argue that if making driving easier is good for retail in general, which is your fundamental premise, then paid parking would be good for retail by encouraging turnover and making it easier for a greater number of drivers to make quick stops). The arguments you have made against mass transit in the suburbs in other threads are, I think, a bit too hardline (not that we need to dig into that here), but your underlying reasoning, that the city should position itself as an attractive place to be so that suburbanites want to relocate there, is not off base. But the way to do that is not by just aping the suburbs within the city. Why have a city at all if your top priority within it is just to accommodate suburban lifestyles? KC calls itself Paris on the Plains, but you're advocating for Phoenix on the Plains. What do you get by being on the side of suburban drivers?