From winterety at sbcglobal.net  Fri Sep  8 13:24:50 2006
From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:24:50 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] Remarking N Old North spaces
Message-ID: <5a68069c76806960fd053f248fc6896e@sbcglobal.net>

Dear Board,

We are under a tight time constraint,  It would be polite to send a 
reply to Bob Clarke in the next day or two.  I've drafted the following 
suggestion.  Please let me know if you agree or not or have 
suggestions.  I hope to send something to Clarke by Sunday evening.  
Thanks for your help.

Sheryl



Dear Mr. Clarke,

Old North created a parking district unlike any other in town, with the 
goals of protecting spaces for residents who needed on street parking 
and providing curb space for downtown employees, shoppers, and for 
students.  As a consequence, it is somewhat unusual in Davis and 
experimental.

When the District originally was laid out, Public Works adopted a 
pattern of placing pairs of restricted spaces spanning lot lines.  Our 
observations suggest this pattern had some unfortunate consequences:  
The unmarked  intervening spaces are irregular in length and lead to 
inefficient parking patterns with cars spaced too far apart, or 
overlapping sidewalks, driveways and alley exits.

Old North observers have discussed this, leading to the suggestion that 
it would be more effective to mark on the street  all of the available 
curb spaces  and then to distribute N-Reserved spaces among the 
resulting parking spots.  We think this would be beneficial to everyone 
using parking in Old North.

The resurfacing project currently underway provides you an opportunity 
to consider this proposal, and if you agree, it is a positive change to 
more fully mark and orient parking.



From awillson at pacbell.net  Fri Sep  8 13:43:16 2006
From: awillson at pacbell.net (angela)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:43:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [OldNorth] Remarking N Old North spaces
In-Reply-To: <5a68069c76806960fd053f248fc6896e@sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <20060908204316.81902.qmail@web81503.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

This looks good to me...but are they still considering selling two to a house hold and do they clealy undestand the reason some of them are empty during the day is becasue we work.. and we look forward to coming home and having a place to park? I for one have a schedule that has me leave at different times and return at different times each day so it is very important to me that I have an opened space to park when I get home...I think this process has been most effective.
   
  angela

sheryl lynn gerety <winterety at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Dear Board,

We are under a tight time constraint, It would be polite to send a 
reply to Bob Clarke in the next day or two. I've drafted the following 
suggestion. Please let me know if you agree or not or have 
suggestions. I hope to send something to Clarke by Sunday evening. 
Thanks for your help.

Sheryl



Dear Mr. Clarke,

Old North created a parking district unlike any other in town, with the 
goals of protecting spaces for residents who needed on street parking 
and providing curb space for downtown employees, shoppers, and for 
students. As a consequence, it is somewhat unusual in Davis and 
experimental.

When the District originally was laid out, Public Works adopted a 
pattern of placing pairs of restricted spaces spanning lot lines. Our 
observations suggest this pattern had some unfortunate consequences: 
The unmarked intervening spaces are irregular in length and lead to 
inefficient parking patterns with cars spaced too far apart, or 
overlapping sidewalks, driveways and alley exits.

Old North observers have discussed this, leading to the suggestion that 
it would be more effective to mark on the street all of the available 
curb spaces and then to distribute N-Reserved spaces among the 
resulting parking spots. We think this would be beneficial to everyone 
using parking in Old North.

The resurfacing project currently underway provides you an opportunity 
to consider this proposal, and if you agree, it is a positive change to 
more fully mark and orient parking.

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From valerie at vanngroup.com  Fri Sep  8 18:18:41 2006
From: valerie at vanngroup.com (Valerie Vann)
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:18:41 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] Remarking N Old North spaces
References: <5a68069c76806960fd053f248fc6896e@sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <45021670.FD8CE708@vanngroup.com>

All,

The previous marking system was included in the
mailed notices and the City Council staff reports
for the hearing on the District, and so were
subject to public review and input as part of the
process of approval of the District.

There was a bit of "tweaking" allowed
during the actual painting, but it was minor.

I don't think it is proper to change the system
arbitrarily without a similar public process.

Valerie Vann
============

sheryl lynn gerety wrote:
> 
> Dear Board,
> 
> We are under a tight time constraint,  It would be polite to send a
> reply to Bob Clarke in the next day or two.  I've drafted the following
> suggestion.  Please let me know if you agree or not or have
> suggestions.  I hope to send something to Clarke by Sunday evening.
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Sheryl
> 
> Dear Mr. Clarke,
> 
> Old North created a parking district unlike any other in town, with the
> goals of protecting spaces for residents who needed on street parking
> and providing curb space for downtown employees, shoppers, and for
> students.  As a consequence, it is somewhat unusual in Davis and
> experimental.
> 
> When the District originally was laid out, Public Works adopted a
> pattern of placing pairs of restricted spaces spanning lot lines.  Our
> observations suggest this pattern had some unfortunate consequences:
> The unmarked  intervening spaces are irregular in length and lead to
> inefficient parking patterns with cars spaced too far apart, or
> overlapping sidewalks, driveways and alley exits.
> 
> Old North observers have discussed this, leading to the suggestion that
> it would be more effective to mark on the street  all of the available
> curb spaces  and then to distribute N-Reserved spaces among the
> resulting parking spots.  We think this would be beneficial to everyone
> using parking in Old North.
> 
> The resurfacing project currently underway provides you an opportunity
> to consider this proposal, and if you agree, it is a positive change to
> more fully mark and orient parking.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> oldnorth mailing list
> oldnorth at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth

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Val
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Valerie Vann
valerie at vanngroup.com