Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Free Parking Removed

After last night's city council vote, landlords owning property along E. College will no longer have taxpayer subsidized parking to offer their tenants:

The council unanimously approved a proposal to convert a stretch of East College Street between Washington and Wall Streets from one-way to two-way traffic with no parking on either side.

The council was met with objections from property owners who thought the removal of on-street parking would adversely affect their rental properties.

I imagine rent prices may drop in the area now that tenants have no place to park their cars. Either that or the landlords will have to build a parking lot or otherwise provide parking for their them. I cannot imagine any resident of Carbondale willing to rent a place to live that did not have someplace provided to park an automobile and it is not the city's job to provide it.

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