Moat around Edgemoor

[Anonymous]

I was going to Bethesda Row the other night and looking for parking near Arlington Rd. I've had bad luck in the garages when they are full, so I went over to the Giant but someone outside said don't even thing of parking here unless you are grocery shopping. So I drove into the neighborhood behind the library (Edgemoor) but you need a special resident permit to park on the street. And then when I tried to drive back to Bethesda Row some of the streets have traffic restriction signs and a few are blocked off. What's that all about? If these are public streets and I'm the public, how can they so restricted? I get maybe limiting parking to a couple of hours or so, but why restrict it to residents only (who all seem to have big driveways) 24/7? No one loves traffic and parking on their street but it seems to me that's the price of progress and for the privilege of living so close to a vibrant, growing urbanist area. I'm not sure it gives people the right to build a moat around the whole neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Lots of neighborhoods have street parking that's restricted to residents, not just Edgemoor. Pretty much all of residential DC as well as any neighborhood in MoCo that I can think of. Try paying for a garage next time.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much all of residential DC as well as any neighborhood in MoCo that I can think of.

No, no, no. You have this bass ackwards. Only a few neighborhoods in DC have been able to pull this off, notably parts of Columbia Heights.

[Anonymous]

DC isn't restricted like that. You get two free hours. After that you need to have residential parking zone sticker. The parking restrictions usually lapse in the evening anyway. I've heard that some DC 'hoods like Cleveland Park and Tenleytown which are near restaurants and movie theaters want to have a more strict street parking scheme like Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

And yes, Edgemoor and the Town and Village of Chevy Chase due east of Wisconsin have been able to construct a moat around them so unwashed mortals cannot drive through on the public streets paid for by public tax dollars out of public coffers.

But those same residents, should they need to go to, say, congested downtown Silver Spring for a gymnastics party, are free to drive and park in the neighborhoods right adjacent to congested commercial Silver Spring. Same for Wheaton.

Only certain demographics get the moat. The rest of residential Montgomery County that also lives near commerce can go screw themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't restricted like that. You get two free hours. After that you need to have residential parking zone sticker. The parking restrictions usually lapse in the evening anyway. I've heard that some DC 'hoods like Cleveland Park and Tenleytown which are near restaurants and movie theaters want to have a more strict street parking scheme like Bethesda.

This is no longer true actually. Large areas of Shaw and the U Street area have had new restrictions put in place since the summer, completely restricting at least one side of the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of neighborhoods have street parking that's restricted to residents, not just Edgemoor. Pretty much all of residential DC as well as any neighborhood in MoCo that I can think of. Try paying for a garage next time.

Sorry, I meant any neighborhood NEAR METRO in MoCo that I can think of.

[Anonymous]

The reason we have these sign are people like you who take up the parking in front of our houses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't restricted like that. You get two free hours. After that you need to have residential parking zone sticker. The parking restrictions usually lapse in the evening anyway. I've heard that some DC 'hoods like Cleveland Park and Tenleytown which are near restaurants and movie theaters want to have a more strict street parking scheme like Bethesda.

This is no longer true actually. Large areas of Shaw and the U Street area have had new restrictions put in place since the summer, completely restricting at least one side of the street.

How do they determine which houses get to be on "the sunny side of the street"?

[Anonymous]

I will say in defense of this, where we live they are building a huge new apartment building and grocery store (Shaw on 7th Street). Our homes do not have driveways and unless your postage stamp backyard has been converted to a parking space, there is no where else for residents to park but the street. The added restrictions where we live are an attempt to allow some spaces to be reserved for actual residents. One side of the street is still two hour parking, although when street sweeping starts its going to be sticky for visitors. Everyone gets a permanent visitors pass now at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't restricted like that. You get two free hours. After that you need to have residential parking zone sticker. The parking restrictions usually lapse in the evening anyway. I've heard that some DC 'hoods like Cleveland Park and Tenleytown which are near restaurants and movie theaters want to have a more strict street parking scheme like Bethesda.

This is no longer true actually. Large areas of Shaw and the U Street area have had new restrictions put in place since the summer, completely restricting at least one side of the street.

How do they determine which houses get to be on "the sunny side of the street"?

I don't know how they decided. I doubt anyone in our neighborhood cares about parking across the street, as long as they can be somewhere on the street and not 2 blocks away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason we have these sign are people like you who take up the parking in front of our houses.

Yes, that's evident.

How come only certain residential SFH neighborhoods near commerce get this restriction in MoCo, but others do not? What distinguishes these neighborhoods that aren't their own city (the way, say, Rockville is)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will say in defense of this, where we live they are building a huge new apartment building and grocery store (Shaw on 7th Street). Our homes do not have driveways and unless your postage stamp backyard has been converted to a parking space, there is no where else for residents to park but the street. The added restrictions where we live are an attempt to allow some spaces to be reserved for actual residents. One side of the street is still two hour parking, although when street sweeping starts its going to be sticky for visitors. Everyone gets a permanent visitors pass now at least.

You'd better hope that the huge new apartment building and grocery store will have some on-site parking; otherwise a lot more "actual residents" are going to be competing for those same limited street spaces. The crazy thing is DC is proposing to get rid of the requirement for on-site parking in huge new projects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't restricted like that. You get two free hours. After that you need to have residential parking zone sticker. The parking restrictions usually lapse in the evening anyway. I've heard that some DC 'hoods like Cleveland Park and Tenleytown which are near restaurants and movie theaters want to have a more strict street parking scheme like Bethesda.

This is no longer true actually. Large areas of Shaw and the U Street area have had new restrictions put in place since the summer, completely restricting at least one side of the street.

How do they determine which houses get to be on "the sunny side of the street"?

I don't know how they decided. I doubt anyone in our neighborhood cares about parking across the street, as long as they can be somewhere on the street and not 2 blocks away.

Is this a joke? You live in Shaw, in an urban high density area, and you think it's unusual to park 2 blocks from your residence in an urban area?

Oh wait! I know. You are a recent transplant to DC from ____ [<-- elite grad school goes there]. Ok, now it all makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason we have these sign are people like you who take up the parking in front of our houses.

Yes, that's evident.

How come only certain residential SFH neighborhoods near commerce get this restriction in MoCo, but others do not? What distinguishes these neighborhoods that aren't their own city (the way, say, Rockville is)?

Maybe clout and the ability to use it?