Show To Park Or Not to Park i That Is the Question Now v Plan for Relief Offered Park It Busi Busi- Businessmen Businessmen Businessmen Than to Move Car More Important to a i Solve Must Build Storage Garages to Solve Problem Tito Tho Katr of f n elaboration o Is li an recently prepared PO liT hythe y the editor of or The 1110 m l Am c end and submitted to a n rouP of consultant In street tlC c irl I problem or for or m Comments Comment sal i were 11 re- re J r oI d from n R ford t f p 1 I Goodrich GOO I rl obert ten JAW Law on and aurl tiro th lIon t New NewYork N X c e York c t f Lout Louo Ix ul i Miller McClintock n Iris Bureau 1 J no Rowland nib Bit Bit- bins Bib bin Washington n P 0 J Wal- Wal Waller Wal Waller al t ler on Mt M It X N NV y S Delos r WiIo Wilcox Gram Rapid Sidney 1 J of or Chicago Dh Public Safely lon mt lon Na- Na National Na National Safety Council Connell II end UtI the 0 Domestic Commerce DIt TIT lon Mon Ion Department f or Com Con Commerce merce mr t IS Ma a ashin l ton D 11 I C r In III lis present t form I he t Ix 1 to meet lIh the of or nil all of or F f C as Indicated In II s except the th comments to hl aldI h follow the general statement VT of ot the tha welter aelter elter of conflicting OUT of oC Idea Ideas Ideal affecting the parking parkins Automobiles on congested eon streets It Is obviously desirable that there Id be formulated A as soon as may be a net act of principles as asan asan an aid old to planning by municipal officials ls and anil business businessmen men look Must lust our expanding clues cilles forward rd to constantly growing ex cx- cx cx of staggering amounts sidewalk ar- ar arcades ar arcades for street widening cades elevated cle and underground traffic ways w ays y and other devices for permitting more and more automobiles to and more move and park park- parkIn parkin park parkin in down town lon business streets On the tho other hand can our business men no long long- longer longer er Ir build big retail shops chops theatres and other structures where hero hero the tho rods crowds congregate ate with reason reason- reasonable reasonable able expectation that the city nilI III somehow m make ko it possible for their customers to continuo continue lo to arrive arrive- arrive and anti park park-bY park by automobile 1 In ot of rational city plan plan- planning planning ning and sound found municipal finance The American Ct City suggest t as Il a for local action this state state- statement statement ment of or principles 1 J That streets are primarilY provided for general use tise for lor of or communication as lines line pedestrians and for tor the he tallon tallon of or persons persons person and merchandise merchandise dise dice and that the rights of oC o the different daises classes of traffic to unlimited un- un unlimited un unlimited limited use of the street streets Including Including In ing the right to park are ale subject to the public and civic welfare 2 That unlimited parkins he be allowed at all times In all bush busi bushness business where It does docs not districts n ness cost ost the traveling public more than It saves sales those hose who perk park nor interfere with Ith the tho mo movement mIlt and nd safety of oC o street treel traffic and with wilh reasonable access of vehicles to the curb urb 3 1 Tha That t as se vehicular I traffic reason reason- reasonable reasonable density Increases every able ble effort be made mado to expedite movement and make It moro more safe safO by the u use e or of pavement markings the he des des- d designation traffic Ir signs and signals Ign ignation Uon of f way one and thrOugh streets th the employment ment of or ade- ade ade adequately trained trained traffic era nd and other aids to 10 traffic safety facilitation and that traffic ordin-ances ordin ances and parking parkin give ghe recognition to the manifold I IntI interests rut represented D By public transportation vehicles MOVE IIO IS I 4 That the right to move AI a acar acar car Is superior to the right to store tore a car on the public 1 way ways way's and that when or where parking I IcaUSI'S causes caUSI'S a net economic lo loss s to the public through to safe and convenient travel el the there I 0 should be limitation or limitation or or In Jt cx- ex extreme ca cases es at t certain hours to- to total to total tal tat 1 abolition- abolition abolition of parking both commercial and private and sod that in some NOme cities Illes the complete le pro pro- pro prohibition during certain hours of private mol motor or and horse drawn hor horse vehicles from congested downtown down down- downtown down downtown town districts and limitation of commercial vehicles to consoli consoli- consolidated consolidated dated service is to be he regarded as asan asan an ultimate possibility 6 E That it Ir the active and Im- Im Impartial partial partial enforcement of o such auch reg- reg reg regulations alternative ot of and and the congestion I In n t h P a streets are are considered by busl busy nea nc men mn m n to bt b to lo tho the disadvantage vantage ot of bustnes bu i In certain dist districts an attempt bo be made mado to solve the tho problem by one ono or more or of orth three th ree m methods a By the provision or 1111 im improvement provement of or by pass by-pass PASS routes route rout for through traffic It If cone on to tho down town la is due In a considerable degree decree to traffic which has no need to 1 ho 0 In ln in the district under consideration such pass pass by-pass routes to tor bo be designed wherever economically with separated grades rr des to lO permit uninterrupted flow of rattle STOR GF G b By the tho provision of garages or other the street thc oft parking and loading facilities on private property properly by hy th ihs business a affected at lit their own x ex- expense ex expense pense and with a 10 low rate of I charge to their customers c cUy lIy the or double-decking double of existing downtown streets to streets to only such luch an extent however as property own own- owner owners ers rs er on these streets are aro willing willingto willingto I Ito to pay by benefit assessments I payable ov over a period ot of years for so much of the tho land and nd con con- construction con construction costs coats as may be for their benefit the principle being recognized that If the city as n a whole were ere required to pay ray the cost ost of contested congested widen widening ing reading or double double the build building In It of pass pas routes would ordinarily be a 0 much wiser expenditure of municipal l funds BUILD PARKING r CE bl 6 All future futuro department stores theaters the ter tall tAil all office buildings and other business structures catering to large e numbers ot of customers or tenants should houM be ho built there there- therefore therefore fore rore only with a know kno-dge kno by bytho bythe bythe the tho owner that he must either provide space apace himself for toe load lond- loading load load-In ing and unloading of m merchandise merchandise dise and for storage ot or his cus- cus customers customers cus customers ten tenants and cars or depend on the trade and services of 01 p persons who ravel 1 a l eY by foot 00 or public conveyance con or r s 's es establish br branch shops banks neighborhood theatres t etc out out- outside outside out outside side of o the tho congested congo ted centers centera In areas arcas properly zoned toned and so planned that there will be fret free circulation with ample parking space pace and a II segregation of o trucking truck- truck InK ing and delivery dellery by means of al al- al alleys leys leva or jor otherwise The foregoing statement or of principles Is based on the growing body of or opinion anions among Amon city Ity plan plan- planners planners planners ners and municipal ors that congestion In lh thi he business centers of our great dUes cities Is a malady which cannot be he cured by providing pro facilities for greater congestion that Ula In the tho public in- in interest In Interest terest every ory city elly must consider a deliberate policy polley ot of decentralization atlon and the adoption of C a a I plan for major street and t transit de- de developments de developments with a fair lr of cost between the city s and nd I rho he benefited property and that here her hereafter alter after projects primarily of or local interest murt must be locally financed ln |