SALISBURY — Salisbury’s downtown will be losing five parking meters in front of 309 East Main Street to accommodate the State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) re-location to that property.
The City Council’s discussion on the prosecution office’s parking also involved taking a look at nearby Lot 10 and the city could consider reducing the price to park in the often underutilized lot sometime in the future.
Now that the State’s Attorney’s Office has completed the move to 309 East Main Street, officials asked the city to remove the five parking meters that front the building. There seemed to be some confusion as to why the request to cut street parking was made among the City Council.
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I want $9 too. That is discrimination based on where you work!
ReplyDeleteBig surprise. COPS AND SA get preferential treatment.
ReplyDeleteget rid of all the parking meters.
ReplyDeleteCut them all down. Then you will see stores open up and people shopping there.
ReplyDeleteParking meters were the death of downtown Salisbury many years ago so it really makes no difference. People have learned nothing as a take away message. I'm old enough to remember how this happened.
ReplyDeleteand should be old enough to know that the Salisbury mall was the death of downtown Salisbury. Take your Ginko!
Delete"Parking meters were the death of downtown Salisbury many years ago"
ReplyDeleteReally? There were no other factors involved, like the bypass, the Centre at Salisbury, and the big box stores opening up on the north end?
exactly right! if you look at other main street towns close by, you will realize that those towns( much like Berlin) had/have historically a higher concentration of people who actually live downtown. This town never had the mainstreet downtown population that would encourage growth or a rebirth.Salisbury has had a slight growth in converting some business/ office building space into residences. you need life and vitality that will occupy the area 24/7. it isn't there and I don't think given past history it will ever be there. just because you open a boutique or unique restaurant down town or take down parking meters or put up parking meters that does not insure steady sustainable growth.
DeleteTo all, there are no parking meters anywhere in the city or county near the downtown area that has parking meters, All are surviving or doing fine,
ReplyDeleteDowntown, however, somehow is in distress and needs "Revitalization" for the entire length of time that parking meter have been in existence there,
Meanwhile, towns like Berlin, Easton, Cambridge, and others who have gone to the free parking idea somehow have bustling downtowns that are over 90% full and bustling with business, even though they have malls and strip stores on a bypass.
I'm nor going to go out on a limb here saying that if Salisbury were to follow a certified, proven path to prosperity or any other "WILD" assumption, but I might expose some real, proven factual evidence of a working system that saves cities such as this one,