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On Monday 28 July those of us on the board received the following e-mail message:
You may or may not be aware that the park side of Paca Street is a no parking zone today, beginning at 7 am.
Judging from all the cars being towed away most people had no idea. (I barely got to my car in time but most people did not.) Does anyone know when those signs went up? I explained to the police officer that most of us are commuters. We park our cars there for days at a time and may not know something is going on. He said they only have to give us 24 hours notice.
The officer also agreed that the situation was not fair to us and even pointed out that the no parking signs are spaced very widely apart and hidden behind branches. And he said that he and the other officers tried to delay the towing but whoever is in charge of the construction insisted they begin.
*Update* Kristen has discovered that the street is closed because of sidewalk reconstruction. Unless the city spontaneously decided on Sunday to do this project, I think they could have definitely given us a little more notice. Kristen is waiting for a call back from the director of parking services who will hopefully explain why the city would screw the entire neighborhood over like this.
I'm going to complain to the city and encourage you to do the same. I'm also hoping the neighborhood association can give us a little support in this. And if your car is gone, at least you know where. I'm home tonight in case anyone needs a ride to the car hockery.
Karen, secretary of the Seton Hill Neighborhood Association, replied:
Turns out from talking to a worker this is the start of the sidewalk work when they were supposed to give us at least 3 days notice. I contacted Rec and Parks about this last week to make sure we would have notice and got no reply. I will contact them again.
Well, Karen made the right calls and the whole matter apparently was corrected.I hope that most people got their cars back and no fines were collected.
As a result of this, on Wednesday afternoon I wandered around the neighborhood and took photographs. Most were for historical purposes.
My goal today was to record construction activity on Saint Mary Street and the BGE substation. When we talk about these things at meetings, I hope to be able to pull up a photograph to see what the issues are.
Plus, we have a really beautiful neighborhood that we are trying to keep nice. Many people spent many hours building the garden in the park and they deserve a sign of appreciation for their efforts.
There are also some nice looking houses in the area, like the white house on Saint Mary Street and the green house one door away. I am talking about the historical houses, not the eight new ones which were recently built. Of course, they are nice looking.
The BGE construction has been a long battle between them and the Neighborhood Association. I hope that in the final analysis the Association will be satisfied. We want to have a great neighborhood and I think that we do. Yes, we do have problems and we are working on them.
At any rate, enjoy the photographs.
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