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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

How exactly are we getting a free lunch? Do you not understand that our property taxes fund the city?

Your property taxes pay for your house, not the road in front of you. If you want to rent space on the public road to park your car, you should pay up. Regular middle class DC taxpayers should not be subsidizing rich city dwellers like you so you can warehouse your oversize Mercedes SUVs on public property for free.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with shrinking the zones, but getting rid of parking in residential neighborhoods? I hope people would object to that. People can't feed the meters in front of their own homes all day.

There is no "right" to a free parking space in front of your home. It is public space and there should be a public benefit for ALL residents for those who use it.

I'm OK with rich gentrifiers feeding the meter in front of their home so the less fortunate in the city can finally eat. That's why I only have a bike you might want to try it sometime.

Do you even live here? The DC government is drowning in tax dollars paid almost entirely by rich people. Bicyclists can thank them for the *billions* of dollars the city has spent on biking infrastructure.

Billions??? Lol.. wth man. You realize most of the $$ spent during a "cycling" project are going toward the repaying of the street that.. you know.. the heav-ass suvs and trucks destroy by simply driving on it, right? Paint and a little concrete (if applicable) isn't all that expensive.

Vote Frumin, Nadeau, Janeese and the other nut jobs out. Half the council is Green Party crazies pretending to be democrats

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with shrinking the zones, but getting rid of parking in residential neighborhoods? I hope people would object to that. People can't feed the meters in front of their own homes all day.

There is no "right" to a free parking space in front of your home. It is public space and there should be a public benefit for ALL residents for those who use it.

I'm OK with rich gentrifiers feeding the meter in front of their home so the less fortunate in the city can finally eat. That's why I only have a bike you might want to try it sometime.

Do you even live here? The DC government is drowning in tax dollars paid almost entirely by rich people. Bicyclists can thank them for the *billions* of dollars the city has spent on biking infrastructure.

Or, they can thank the Federal DOT block grants, which more likely paid for them.

80 percent of federal income taxes are paid by people making at least a quarter million dollars. So, potato, patato

Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

How exactly are we getting a free lunch? Do you not understand that our property taxes fund the city?

Anonymous wrote:So a zoned car could park all day without paying, but a visitor would have to pay the meter?

Of course. As it should be

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

Everyone! Let’s have metered parking everywhere on all streets in all wards.

You just but that's a distinct long-term possibility.

"jest"

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

Everyone! Let’s have metered parking everywhere on all streets in all wards.

You just but that's a distinct long-term possibility.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with shrinking the zones, but getting rid of parking in residential neighborhoods? I hope people would object to that. People can't feed the meters in front of their own homes all day.

There is no "right" to a free parking space in front of your home. It is public space and there should be a public benefit for ALL residents for those who use it.

I'm OK with rich gentrifiers feeding the meter in front of their home so the less fortunate in the city can finally eat. That's why I only have a bike you might want to try it sometime.

Do you even live here? The DC government is drowning in tax dollars paid almost entirely by rich people. Bicyclists can thank them for the *billions* of dollars the city has spent on biking infrastructure.

Or, they can thank the Federal DOT block grants, which more likely paid for them.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

Everyone! Let’s have metered parking everywhere on all streets in all wards.

Works for me.

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be hilarious to watch Frumin run screaming from this issue. There's no way he has the backbone to support what's being proposed in this thread.

I am pretty sure he would support it, actually.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with shrinking the zones, but getting rid of parking in residential neighborhoods? I hope people would object to that. People can't feed the meters in front of their own homes all day.

There is no "right" to a free parking space in front of your home. It is public space and there should be a public benefit for ALL residents for those who use it.

I'm OK with rich gentrifiers feeding the meter in front of their home so the less fortunate in the city can finally eat. That's why I only have a bike you might want to try it sometime.

First, Cleveland Park does not have gentrifiers. Second, rich people in DC pay a ton of income taxes. Don't nickel and dime people and annoy them with parking meters in front of their houses, so they all move to MD and take their tax dollars with them. Someone needs to pay for your bike lane.

Any elected official that supports this plan should be voted out of office. DC is currently sitting on 6,000,000 unpaid traffic tickets. To even suggest I could face a fine for parking in front of my house is absolutely abhorrent and I will make that clear in person to Mr. Frumin.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with shrinking the zones, but getting rid of parking in residential neighborhoods? I hope people would object to that. People can't feed the meters in front of their own homes all day.

There is no "right" to a free parking space in front of your home. It is public space and there should be a public benefit for ALL residents for those who use it.

I'm OK with rich gentrifiers feeding the meter in front of their home so the less fortunate in the city can finally eat. That's why I only have a bike you might want to try it sometime.

Do you even live here? The DC government is drowning in tax dollars paid almost entirely by rich people. Bicyclists can thank them for the *billions* of dollars the city has spent on biking infrastructure.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Metered parking for EVERYONE would be the most equitable. No more free lunch for rich folks in million dollar mansions when there is so much need across the city.

Everyone! Let’s have metered parking everywhere on all streets in all wards.

That wouldn't be fair. It makes sense to ask the rich chip in a little more but we shouldn't be hounding low income people with needless parking tickets.

Frankly, it's the people in the largest homes that have driveways. This will target those who live in smaller rowhouses.