Take a look at how this Florida beach has parking and a view of the Gulf of Mexico, all in prime season.   Blogfinger action photo. © Feb, 2020.  Click to enlarge and see why Florida’s Southwest Coast is so popular.  And, the beach is free.

The Better Parking Alliance  (BPA) has been transformed from their proclaimed alliance specifically on behalf of OG’s residents to a partnership with self-interested others in town who have shown no interest in helping we the people.

What’s left of their initial “pilot” plan which was to be implemented only after 6 pm and only at the North End?

This is from the BPA’s new flier.  Proclamation:

Now that you have read this, is this a  “citizen-based group?”  The CMA, the HOA, the Neptuners at the Mother-Ship, the Chamber of Commercials , “The Tenters,” employees, and “VISITORS”   are all included. And the CMA is going down its own road as well, hiring professional parking planners.

And who is representing the British car fans and drivers, the Asburian invaders, teenagers, the pediatric crowd, senior citizens, drug dealers, hookers,  and don’t forget Genghis Khan and the Huns  (a 50’s group—1150 ac) who like to come here for the massive junk shows and for spring training?

As you see, the goals, as difficult as they were initially for the BPA, have been expanded to assist all these other groups. They even have revised their “pilot” parking  plan to include everybody in town besides the North End.

The most we can say about the HOA in this regard, is that they have failed to provide a solution despite years of trying.  They even suggested parking along Wesley Lake at Founders Park. This automatically should exclude them from the new amalgam.

That leaves the newest invented BPA, but they have been knocked senseless by former Mayor Rizzo who insisted that they form a brotherhood with people who don’t want to be in the room.

So, despite the logo and the marketing, the BPA has meekly changed its stripes.  They even ask our readers to “join us if you believe there is space for improvement.”

We don’t need space for improvement, we need space for our cars.  WE PAY TAXES. WE WANT PERMITS.

We can have more space for residents  by discouraging the millions of tourists who flood our town during the best weather of the year. We must eliminate those mega-tourist events like the Pathway junk shows.  Our town is the most crowded with tourists, on a per square inch basis , then any other Shore Town in history (except maybe for AC, but they have great garages.)

We need  parking fees, permits for residents,  and out-of-town lots/garages with shuttle buses.

These planned meetings may be the most fun OG has seen since Stokes, discovering no mosquitoes, parked his horse and set up some tents in Founders Park with his friends.  What would he say today when people drop sauerkraut at his feet?

–Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger Editor and  founder of the new group, currently with no members: The Better Residents Alliance. (BRA)

DOCTOR HOOK ( a member of the AMA):  “More Like the Movies.”   When do we hear those violins?