Neptune Township: About those potential spots on Main AVenue – can Main become diagonal all the way to the gates? Even adding these spots will help a little, rather than doing nothing at all. Maybe there is a reason not to do this, but I havn’t heard it mentioned here.
I suggested some things but I also said, “If not these, then something else.” No solutions needed until the Federal Budget gets fixed, so here’s the typical Ocean Grove plan.
Keep building condos with no parking to increase ratables under the assumption it will get our taxes under control. (I have a bridge in Brooklyn you can get cheap …) <~~~ Snide remark.
Continue to let every resident park spare cars along the boardwalk all season long without moving them, to use them as beach lockers. (More than you would think) <~~~ really does happen.
Invite even more people from Bradley and Asbury to use our ample 'free parking' all day long. (That NEVER happens) <~~~ Oops, snide remark again.
Continue using driveways and garages as patios and extra rooms while using the driveway cuts as personal parking spots. (Certainly no one does that) <~~~ is that snide or reality, I'm not sure?
Just allow every home owner to put trash cans in the street to save parking spots or park poorly to take up two or three spots? (The north side o' town parking solutions) <~~~~ Not snide at all, just reality.
I'm sure there are more tricks and schemes for us to try. Any suggestions, Ken?
Guess I'll go concentrate on the deficit now. <~~~ Okay, now that IS a snide remark, my bad.
We have a parking problem in OG to ignore it or to be snarky about it is not the solution. What is wrong with people expressing their opinions? It may pave the way to a solution.
Ogrover, it is such a neat simple solution: permit parking for residents, time limit for commercial streets. Develop a plan, post it on the blog, and await the comments. If you are successful I suggest you can fix our national budget deficit problem too.
Good luck, ken
Permit parking in residential areas, especially on the one way streets, time restricted in commercial areas (Beachfront and Main area) diagonal parking on the whole length of Main AND no more condos without parking (other than on street). If not these, then something else. It is so short sighted to proceed with any development without a sane parking plan for the town.
An aside: People have actually posted on this blog that they live and park in town, but go to the beach in Bradley so they won’t lose their space. That just doesn’t seem ‘Kosher’ to me.
I’ve yet to hear an argument against seasonal meters that wasn’t an aesthetic one.
Or just paint the whole town with spots. A resident permit gets a number assigned to the physical house and that number is on the sticker and painted on the street. If the car in the spot doesn’t have a matching sticker it gets towed.
Rutgers University, Main Campus, New Brunswick, has a parking sticker resident policy that allows residents to have parking during the enormous student influx.
OG residents should also have parking stickers, but until they unite under one cause, this is moot point.
Ocean Grove’s existing diagonal parking would not be approved now-a-days; the roadways are not wide enough.
Neptune Township: About those potential spots on Main AVenue – can Main become diagonal all the way to the gates? Even adding these spots will help a little, rather than doing nothing at all. Maybe there is a reason not to do this, but I havn’t heard it mentioned here.
I suggested some things but I also said, “If not these, then something else.” No solutions needed until the Federal Budget gets fixed, so here’s the typical Ocean Grove plan.
Keep building condos with no parking to increase ratables under the assumption it will get our taxes under control. (I have a bridge in Brooklyn you can get cheap …) <~~~ Snide remark.
Continue to let every resident park spare cars along the boardwalk all season long without moving them, to use them as beach lockers. (More than you would think) <~~~ really does happen.
Invite even more people from Bradley and Asbury to use our ample 'free parking' all day long. (That NEVER happens) <~~~ Oops, snide remark again.
Continue using driveways and garages as patios and extra rooms while using the driveway cuts as personal parking spots. (Certainly no one does that) <~~~ is that snide or reality, I'm not sure?
Just allow every home owner to put trash cans in the street to save parking spots or park poorly to take up two or three spots? (The north side o' town parking solutions) <~~~~ Not snide at all, just reality.
I'm sure there are more tricks and schemes for us to try. Any suggestions, Ken?
Guess I'll go concentrate on the deficit now. <~~~ Okay, now that IS a snide remark, my bad.
We have a parking problem in OG to ignore it or to be snarky about it is not the solution. What is wrong with people expressing their opinions? It may pave the way to a solution.
Ogrover, it is such a neat simple solution: permit parking for residents, time limit for commercial streets. Develop a plan, post it on the blog, and await the comments. If you are successful I suggest you can fix our national budget deficit problem too.
Good luck, ken
Permit parking in residential areas, especially on the one way streets, time restricted in commercial areas (Beachfront and Main area) diagonal parking on the whole length of Main AND no more condos without parking (other than on street). If not these, then something else. It is so short sighted to proceed with any development without a sane parking plan for the town.
An aside: People have actually posted on this blog that they live and park in town, but go to the beach in Bradley so they won’t lose their space. That just doesn’t seem ‘Kosher’ to me.
I’ve yet to hear an argument against seasonal meters that wasn’t an aesthetic one.
Or just paint the whole town with spots. A resident permit gets a number assigned to the physical house and that number is on the sticker and painted on the street. If the car in the spot doesn’t have a matching sticker it gets towed.
Rutgers University, Main Campus, New Brunswick, has a parking sticker resident policy that allows residents to have parking during the enormous student influx.
OG residents should also have parking stickers, but until they unite under one cause, this is moot point.
I didn’t realize the township had hired Truckasaurus to do parking enforcement.
The police department would spend a lot of time crushing residents vehicles, they tend to be the ones who park illegally the most.