Show Town Builds Parking g Lots Aimed to o Lure Back ac Local Trade RYE NY Like Like many communities communities communities across the country Rye has had a serious parking and traffic problem The town has just completed completed completed com com- a major operation on some of ot the back yards of the city's blighted business district that Is aimed at increasing the local trade by a year The program is the establishment of car parks the first two of which were dedicated recently They are located behind stores on the main shopping thoroughfare Two vo more such parks will be constructed constructed constructed con con- next year To accomplish the transformation the town condemned and demolished 20 residential properties and two small commercial establishments at ata a cost in excess of Then it spent to construct the car parks Trees will shade each of the stalls and decora decorative ve shrubbery and flowers will be set in the stone curbs that divide the parking fields into small sections for easier access access access ac ac- ac- ac cess to particular stores That part of the program was developed with the help of the Garden Club of Rye which is contributing much of the greenery The decision to rehabilitate the business sector stemmed from growing growing growing grow grow- ing complaints of lack of parking facilities The main shopping thoroughfare thoroughfare thoroughfare thor thor- is a narrow traffic trap There were only a few isolated lots near the stores and local residents were going to other communities for Cor many items obtainable at home Some housewives were even doing their to day-to-day food shopping in other communities With the new car parks the merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants hope lost trade will return and they are doing their part by rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding re re- re- re building the rears of their shops to form torm an attractive drop back-drop for the parking lots To insure the continuing attractiveness attractiveness attractiveness of the free municipal parkIng parking park- park Ing mg areas the town adopted an ordinance ordinance ordinance nance that not only bars commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial advertising signs but requires merchants wishing to identify their locations to submit the designs toan toan to toan an architectural board of review for Cor approval |