Would have been useful had the reporter asked if the restaurant owners would be willing to pay the same fee per space, eh?

glad you found it helpful, i really dont want to be overly negative but just wanted to provide my 2 cents. reading your other comment about it being related to art, i think you would be much better served looking at something more convenient to MICA (which as a bonus will have much better parking options and probably be cheaper than a place on fort ave)

Trying to get from Mt. Vernon to either I-95 or Locust Point is faster if I crawl on my belly vs. driving. If the study just gets rid of that one light on Key Highway near The Rusty Scupper it will be 1000% worth it!!!!

Someone else explained that it’s down in the inner harbor. I was thinking Canton since that’s my side of town 😅

I can see the attraction of parking there, and frankly, idk that delivery folks are typically sitting there long enough for someone to catch them. And if they do, it’s what $25-30 a ticket? That’s barely over parking garage rates. Idk if there’s a solution for that unless it involves someone full time assigned to ticket down there, or maybe dedicated loading zones.

Having said that… my random city dwellers, chick fil a fries that are half an hour old are just not good. Get fried rice or pizza on your doordash instead!

Thank you! This is super helpful information, especially coming from someone who may not be within walking/biking distance

tl;dr: ask follow up questions!

I feel like this article (like many in the Banner, sadly) could have been much more informative and useful if the reporter had dug a bit deeper in his interviews. In particular, most of the owners interviewed said they would take down their parklets because the $10/sqf fee was prohibitive. OK, ask what fee would be viable for them? Would you be comfortable with $5/sqf? $7? $3? Should there be a low fee to start, with a timed escalation over 2-3 years to give you time to determine the ROI? Would credits/discounts based on quality of facility design, etc. be useful?

Especially when combined with newly-imposed design standards, if you're asking people to pay a (potentially) prohibitive fee and ALSO spend even more on a (non-permanent) redesign/redevelopment of what they have already paid for—all without a strong idea of the revenue that it will generate minus the pandemic influence—we're just going to lose the amenity and the city is going to lose any potential revenue. There needs to be a balance struck between city revenue, aesthetic considerations, and the fact that these business owners really don't know what that ROI is going to be in a changed environment. An article like this could have jumpstarted that conversation, but as is, basically reiterates what we've already heard in other outlets and in the survey.

More broadly, this is an issue I've seen in all the coverage of this issue—the city set an arbitrary $10/sqf rate, and there seems to have been no substantial public discussion at all about whether that's the appropriate rate or not—just a zero sum alternative that there should be no fees. Dig deeper, Banner (or Sun, or Beat, or whatever).

My idea is more akin to art/makerspace than a gym

Yea, it needs to be a system that can adapt to current traffic conditions. Have cameras and sensors with an AI doing the crunching and a human watching over with a bit of sense.

Any system without adaptability is going to break.

I’ve got one note for you: stfu

I love this. 85% in support but somehow "many" have concerns. And a clear acknowledgement "most contentious" comments are being weighed more than supportive comments.

i've been meaning to visit Bob!

Meanwhile valet can take up meter parking or any other parking for a fixed $1,100 fee. No analysis of lost parking revenue nor per square foot fee. Seems fucked up to me.

Giant! Start looking now. They already have the HotCeossBuns.

What if an unhoused person is happier though? Have you all considered that consequence?

Absolutely not.

We should be taking over entire streets for eating and thoroughfares, at least past morning deliveries. I am looking at you Charles and Thames and 36th and Cross(?).

Every city, here and abroad, that has made parts car free never goes back. NYC did this shit to times square "for a year" about ten years back.

There’s another hall of famer that I think is still in one of the downstairs bathrooms at the Crown “I used to be in Sonic Youth. Now I suck dick in this bathroom”.

Thank you for contacting Baltimore City’s Department of Transportation. Your concerns regarding our City’s continued growth and development is important to us. Please know we are currently working with overpaid consultants who don’t know shit. We will be continuing to ignore our crumbling infrastructure until the next election cycle.

Thank You,

It's very difficult to find New Orleans style without just ordering one from Louisiana. I gave up years ago.

This is the answer.

> Many of the comments DOT received were about aesthetics and the lack of uniformity in the city’s estimated 120 parklets, Davis said. Eighty-five percent of respondents supported the parklets. Most of the contentious comments, he said, revolve around Fells Point, which has the highest concentration of parklets.

Make a reasonable building code. Not a intentionally prohibitive, but reasonable to ensure safety. Don't like the aesthetic, move to a cookie cutter burb.

> Paul Dolaway, owner of MaGerk’s Pub & Grill in Federal Hill, wanted no part of the parklets.
“I’m against them,” said Dolaway, who has observed the street-side structures attracting non-customers — from those looking to extend the party to people experiencing homelessness seeking shelter. With the lack of uniformity, he said the majority of the parklets look rickety and randomly constructed.

These bar owners got some nerve.

The last thing this city needs is more parking. Get people into the streets, bars, and restaurants. Not spaces for single use cars.

I was worried the answer was going to be the Canton library

I foresee a jury summons, $4,000 water bill and trip to City Impound in your future.

> Do they live around Pratt?

No, but also most of them are doing deliveries so even if the garage on Gay had free <30 minute parking, chances are they wouldn't/couldn't.

It’s Hopkins campus testing their systems. (Unless there is an actual emergency)

Right? I'm sure the result is going to be "holy fuck this shit is BAD" I just remember 2 or 3 times when I was commuting by bus from UMMC to Hopkins (2017-2020) when out of nowhere for 2 weeks the entire thing gridlocked. The trip would take twice as long for no apparent reason. I always joked that someone must have been trying to "fix" the lights...