A pair lawsuits looking to overturn rezoning for SK hynix a step closer to combining into one. TSC looks at $11.7M post-GLASS renovations. Second round coming on WL's metered parking. And more.
Any word on whether business has been slowed with the introduction of metered parking at Wabash Landing? Might be hard to tell in summer, but I wonder how many people pull up, see the signs, and just don’t have time to download an app and set up an account.
I'm not going to boycott, it's no problem to me, I just do not get why WL would look at a strip mall that has struggled to hold tenants for 20+ years and say "Hey, let's make it harder to shop there!"
The last time I went down there before the park mobile system was in place, I was dropping my wife off. So I stopped to let her out, no one was behind me.
But then I continued to drive through. There was a car stopped in front of Panera in the middle of the road with no one in it. I sat there for 3 or 4 mins with people stacking up behind me waiting for the DoorDash driver to come out. When he got yelled out by a few people in the line, to which he yelled back “sorry, there was no parking spots!”
I worked at a university for about 20 years in another state. Parking was enforced strictly. There was a standing joke (this was a private university with high tuition and wealthy students) that the kids just figured that the $50 parking ticket was worth paying.
I forget, is it free first 30 minutes? If that's the case then they'll be fine, but I assume that still requires that you register your arrival time on the app, and for the first several months a large number of people won't have the app and won't want to spend 10 minutes downloading it and setting up a new account.
I bet you're right, though, that a large number of people doing a quick pickup will look around, see no parking enforcement, and just duck in without bothering with the app. Hell, I have the app and likely won't bother if I'm ducking into Panera for two minutes to grab something off the counter.
"Instead of spaces offered with hourly time limits, metered parking covered by a ParkMobile app will be used to manage spots in those areas." I don't do apps. I guess this will encourage me to eat in downtown Lafayette rather than on the Levee.
Wouldn't it be easier to prevent car storage by simply banning overnight parking?
Any word on whether business has been slowed with the introduction of metered parking at Wabash Landing? Might be hard to tell in summer, but I wonder how many people pull up, see the signs, and just don’t have time to download an app and set up an account.
I won't shop there while the metered parking is in effect. You have to wonder if the City Council is just begging to be replaced in the next election.
I'm not going to boycott, it's no problem to me, I just do not get why WL would look at a strip mall that has struggled to hold tenants for 20+ years and say "Hey, let's make it harder to shop there!"
Especially for the businesses whose visit time is just a few minutes. I guess a lot of those customers will just not pay.
The upside is that there will more open spaces so now the DoorDash drivers won’t sit in the middle of the road blocking traffic!
Interesting point. I'm never down there long enough to see the ongoing issues like that, but it makes sense.
The last time I went down there before the park mobile system was in place, I was dropping my wife off. So I stopped to let her out, no one was behind me.
But then I continued to drive through. There was a car stopped in front of Panera in the middle of the road with no one in it. I sat there for 3 or 4 mins with people stacking up behind me waiting for the DoorDash driver to come out. When he got yelled out by a few people in the line, to which he yelled back “sorry, there was no parking spots!”
I would not chance it. College town parking enforcement has a reputation for a good reason. Or maybe they just hate me.
I worked at a university for about 20 years in another state. Parking was enforced strictly. There was a standing joke (this was a private university with high tuition and wealthy students) that the kids just figured that the $50 parking ticket was worth paying.
I forget, is it free first 30 minutes? If that's the case then they'll be fine, but I assume that still requires that you register your arrival time on the app, and for the first several months a large number of people won't have the app and won't want to spend 10 minutes downloading it and setting up a new account.
I bet you're right, though, that a large number of people doing a quick pickup will look around, see no parking enforcement, and just duck in without bothering with the app. Hell, I have the app and likely won't bother if I'm ducking into Panera for two minutes to grab something off the counter.
"Instead of spaces offered with hourly time limits, metered parking covered by a ParkMobile app will be used to manage spots in those areas." I don't do apps. I guess this will encourage me to eat in downtown Lafayette rather than on the Levee.