[OldNorth] Remarking N Old North spaces

[sheryl lynn gerety]

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.