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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved Palena, but parking in Cleveland Park is impossible. The parking lot adjacent to the former property probably has 40 spaces for 10+ shops. Unless we're going out during the week we avoid Cleveland Park because of the parking situation alone. What's with there being no valet parking in this area?[/quote]

Some restaurants have valet parking.  However, some of the fly-by-nigh valet services had to close up shop several years ago after DC  enacted a city-wide regulation that they have an off-street location to park the cars.  Before then, valets were ricocheting cars up and down the side streets from where they would find on-street spots.

You are correct that parking needs to be an option, even in an area next to a Metro stop. [b] I am always struck by the smart growth ideologueswho claim that no off-street parking is needed anymore.  Either they are just naive or they are carrying water for real estate interests that want to reduce their costs by avoiding having to build parking, and then figure that localities and businesses will just suck it up as more and more cars compete for limited curb space.[/b][/quote]

Palena thrived for more than a decade with its parking situation, so clearly it wasn't parking that was the problem. [/quote]

I am the PP at the top of this string. Parking is the problem. We used to come to Cleveland Park for Indique, Spices, Palena, Lavandou, Ardeo, Bardeo and the Uptown. During the past few years we found we had to park farther and farther away and waste more and more time circling for a space. We've given up. Now we go to Friendship Heights and Chevy Chase D.C. [/quote]

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