Why is it that the public is not free to park in the neighborhood adjacent to Walt Whitman HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you buy a house near a high school or a beach house near the beach where others want to go, too bad. The cost of the house should reflect the inconvenience of people parking in front of your house.

But instead the value of the house reflects the benefits of having permit parking, and the homeowners pay more in taxes to maintain the streets you love to drive on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are public streets. Why is it that I need a special permit to park in that neighborhood? Is it Kenwood? Not sure of the name. It is a HUGE area where parking is not permitted, and now the snotty, uptight neighbors are complaining about the Whitman kids parking in no parking zones. Parking ought to be permitted on the neighboring streets by anybody.

Busy-body NIMBYs organize and get sh-- done.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t the same true around BCC? It’s all metered or restricted. Same with nearly every DC school. And every neighborhood near a metro stop.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t Whitman have offstreet parking ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of neighborhoods all over the country have parking restrictions around high schools. Including mine, thankfully.

It’s ridiculius and there’s no reason for it.
Protest and get it overturned, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Whitman have offstreet parking ?

Yes but not enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Due to abuse. Parking is for residents and their guests. Depending on the area, it allows up to 2 hours parking without a residential permit.

Do you also get mad that you have to pay a meter to park on the street in Bethesda? Or that most of residential DC is permit parking only?

Metered parking allocates a scarce resource by price - it is open to all and all must pay - and increasinly localities adjust the price based on demand.

DC permit parking is stupid. Its not even justified by the claim to be able to park near your house - since the permits are ward wide. Someone in a SFH in distant parts of Ward 3 can use their permit to park in dense area near metro. DC would be well advised to have smaller permit areas and MUCH higher prices for RPPs in places where parking is in high demand (a white market, allowing RPP holders to sell their permits to outsiders, would be another way to introduce some market logic)

Yeah, in general residental parking permit programs effectively give valuable public property (on street parking) to private persons for a nominal amount. They also incentivize those private persons to fight development and changes that would reduce the number of spots - "because you are taking away MY space".

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[Anonymous]

Where I live there is no street parking during school hours otherwise the roads would be packed with students cars. It is a pain and I wish that homeowners could give their visitors some kind of pass.

[Anonymous]

Not sure why you're fixating on the WW neighborhood. These rules are everywhere in the Washington DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of neighborhoods all over the country have parking restrictions around high schools. Including mine, thankfully.

It’s ridiculius and there’s no reason for it.
Protest and get it overturned, OP.

Good luck- you’ll need it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Not sure why you're fixating on the WW neighborhood. These rules are everywhere in the Washington DC area.

Because OP wants to park in neighborhood during school but doesn’t have school parking. Poor OP. Still on the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of neighborhoods all over the country have parking restrictions around high schools. Including mine, thankfully.

It’s ridiculius and there’s no reason for it.
Protest and get it overturned, OP.

Good luck- you’ll need it!

Right. Because rich middle aged - ancient adults always get their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the same true around BCC? It’s all metered or restricted. Same with nearly every DC school. And every neighborhood near a metro stop.

It is at BCC, but most neighborhoods in or near downtown Bethesda have restricted parking to prevent people working there or hopping on the metro from parking in the neighborhood. I don't know why there would be the same issue near Whitman, especially once you get away from the area right near the school.

[Anonymous]

There's currently a bit of a furor over this in the WW area, on the neighborhood email list. Apparently a police officer ticketed all the illegally-parked cars that were parked just by the school (back driveway by the field) earlier this week. A parent got mad and said it was probably some nearby neighbor who called the cops, this is so unjust, etc. They did acknowledge their kid was parked in a no parking zone, at least.

I drove by the other day to check it out. No parking signs are clearly marked, and people are parking haphazardly. It would be a tight squeeze for a hook and ladder fire truck to make it through that, especially in a rush. I think the no parking signs in that area are justified -- it's a tight squeeze.

As for within the neighborhood itself, that's not unique to Whitman -- you'll find that outside every high school I'd say.

These kids don't all _need_ to drive to school. The school provides school bus transportation, and there is a Ride-On bus stop directly in front of the school. Yes, there are more people who want permits than they have spaces, but they should just auction them off or use a lottery process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's currently a bit of a furor over this in the WW area, on the neighborhood email list. Apparently a police officer ticketed all the illegally-parked cars that were parked just by the school (back driveway by the field) earlier this week. A parent got mad and said it was probably some nearby neighbor who called the cops, this is so unjust, etc. They did acknowledge their kid was parked in a no parking zone, at least.

I drove by the other day to check it out. No parking signs are clearly marked, and people are parking haphazardly. It would be a tight squeeze for a hook and ladder fire truck to make it through that, especially in a rush. I think the no parking signs in that area are justified -- it's a tight squeeze.

As for within the neighborhood itself, that's not unique to Whitman -- you'll find that outside every high school I'd say.

These kids don't all _need_ to drive to school. The school provides school bus transportation, and there is a Ride-On bus stop directly in front of the school. Yes, there are more people who want permits than they have spaces, but they should just auction them off or use a lottery process.

I am sure it was a neighbor because I don't think that is an area that is regularly patrolled. There would be no reason students couldn't park in an orderly fashion on streets near the front of the school, but it isn't allowed either. The Ride On only services part of the area from which students are drawn from and comes infrequently enough that it might not work time was. But for people far enough for the school bus, that's certainly an option.

Auctioning spots would greatly favor wealthy students so I can't imagine that would be considered.