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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, so much mis information in this one thread.

Available parking is in the teacher's union contract.  There are only a small number of schools that do not have any parking, and another number that do not have adequate parking.  You can feel however you want about parking, but it is a union contract item.

The use of passes for Eaton teachers, donated by neighbors, is not illegal.  It is the solution suggested to Eaton by Mary Cheh and DDOT.  And it's not illegal.  Did I mention it's not illegal?

I'm an Eaton parent of an older child.  The renovation will not benefit me one iota.  It would be nice, in my opinion, if parking was included in the renovation.  But parking is very expensive.  Eaton parents have very little pull with Cheh.  The neighbors who care so much about parking might be the only ones who can influence this, but they don't seem organized enough to pull it off.  [/quote]

But it’s not sustainable.  Immediate neighbors accepted and put up with it, willing to help out Eaton for the short term with the understanding that DCPS would provide a ong term offstreet parking solution.  It seems like bait and switch that DCPS now is suggesting that this will be the long term fix.  And it’s not exactly fair to neighbors who can’t find parking during the day despite RPP restrictions on the surrounding residential streets.  Remember that the visitor passes were never intended as permanent daily parking passes.  Moreover, because they are valid for an entire ANC area the persons who are providing their passes to teachers may limit necessarily live close to the school, and therefore are not impacted by the parking scarcity on the surrounding streets.[/quote]

+1.  Using Visitor Parking Passes may not be “illegal,” but it is certainly not the purpose the program was designed for.

Any why should Eaton families have to trade in their access to Visitor Parking Passes so the teachers can have the parking they were promised?  It makes no sense.[/quote]

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