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Show I THE TOWN DOCTOR (Tha Doctor of Towns) . ...m---m Bayg - ...fc.J space to park. In other words ! merchants in this town, by carelessness, thoughtlessness, or.1 their own convenience, were drr ' a fifth of their trade away. same time, this survey proved f-in f-in many cases local merchants '' ample parking space at the rear ! their stores, some of whom had a- i able garage space, unoccupied. The majority of the merchants this town complained of lack of bt. ness or stated that they could "st j more business many "cried" . business when they could, by a li I thinking plus a. very small amount effort and inconvenience, automji ' ally make .possible an increase business of from 15 per cent to per cent for themselves and the cc-munity. cc-munity. You cannot expect business (t your trade zone, from other towns from motor traffic if you do not p. vide a place for potential customs to park the cars they use as a mej. to get to your city. And remember, if your communf your town, doesn't do it, some otb town will and the town that does will get the business. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone, j, production prohibited in whole or j part. This .Town Doctor Article is polished po-lished by this paper in cooperatir with the local Lions club. AlTOlirOUlLE 1'AKKl.NG IS YITAL TO COMMUMIY BUSINESS The parking situation is a serious problem to every city, town and village in the country. It is not always the fault of the present generation that many communities com-munities have horse and buggy thoroughfares, and seldom can an increase of parking space in the business section be created fast enough to keep up with the ever-increasing number of automobiles. At the same time, the amount of retail business done in a community and the amount of business to be derived from motor traffic depends to no little degree upon the amount of available curb parking space. A given block can accommodate only so many automobiles an adjacent ad-jacent lot has a given capacity and no more. Therefore, it is a problem of two things turnover of space or getting more cars in and out of one space in a given length of time, and eliminating the deadhead or nonbusiness non-business -productive cars that occupy the available space. The first is a matter of a parking time limit, requiring a city ordinance faking into consideration that the specified time limit is equitable; such an ordinance is only as good as enforced. The second is a matter of common, everyday business judgement judge-ment and foresight and cooperative fairness by and among the business people and citizens in general, and in this way the parking space of most communities can be, figuratively figurative-ly speaking, increased all the way from ten to twenty per cenl. In a recent survey of parking con-I con-I ditions in a midwestern city, it was learned that of the parked cars in the down town area, (the check being be-ing made in the morning, at noon and in -the late afternoon,) 25 per cent of the available parking space was occupied continuously from morning to night by the same cars 81 per cent of which were cars owned own-ed by local business and professional people two merchants having two cars each for the full day; also that the average parking time per car was two and one-half hours; therefore, each car parked continously deprived three and one-fifth customers of a |