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How to be awesome at parking in the Short North
By Chris DeVille
March 27, 2008
Many of our Best of Columbus winners are located in the Short North, where it can be very difficult to find a parking spot. To help you get to your favorite locales, we’ve compiled some ideas for what to do when the free lots and meters are all filled up.
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Chris! You forgot about COTA!
Anyway… let’s face it… the Short North parking situation is only going to get worse as the neighborhood continues to densify. That’s just one of the downsides of being a big grown up city! We can’t always park directly in front of the store we want to visit.
The new garage with the Ibiza project will add some new public spaces… but even more importantly, the Streetcar will be making it easy to park in any garage up and down High Street and give you a free ride up to the Short North!
Parking problems…. gone! :D
City hall is working on new rules for valet parking so those cars can’t use parking intended for the general public. That means all the restaurants that use valet service will have to lease private parking. Overall it’s a really good step forward, but it does underscore the need for alternate ways to get around High Street.
Anywhere worth visiting is hard to park at. Too much space for car storage, means less space for awesomeness.
Anyway… let’s face it… the Short North parking situation is only going to get worse as the neighborhood continues to densify. That’s just one of the downsides of being a big grown up city! We can’t always park directly in front of the store we want to visit.
The new garage with the Ibiza project will add some new public spaces… but even more importantly, the Streetcar will be making it easy to park in any garage up and down High Street and give you a free ride up to the Short North!
Parking problems…. gone! :D
At the same time, (but this will not happen much as the densification/ residential projects are for affluent people), is for less of a need to have a parking space for future residents.
Anyway… let’s face it… the Short North parking situation is only going to get worse as the neighborhood continues to densify. That’s just one of the downsides of being a big grown up city! We can’t always park directly in front of the store we want to visit.
The new garage with the Ibiza project will add some new public spaces… but even more importantly, the Streetcar will be making it easy to park in any garage up and down High Street and give you a free ride up to the Short North!
Parking problems…. gone! :D
1) The streetcar will be free????
2) The streetcar line will most likely wipe out all the meter parking along high street. I don’t see running it up the middle as a safe way to get on and off the street car. Jumping off into the middle of traffic.
I am all for the streetcar, but I don’t think it will “curb” any parking problems. Pun intended.
*completely tangential*
Hallelujah! It drives me insane when I hang out on my front porch in the summer and see 5-10 Basi valets park cars on the neighborhood streets when the sign advertising the valets says “Respect our neighbors, use the valets.” Basi actually leases spots at Giant Eagle parking lot (approx. 100 yds away from the restaurant) already, but maybe if there was an actual city ordinance I would have some muscle behind me when I shout at them to park in the GE lot and not on the neighborhood streets.
Anybody know who I can write a letter to in support of such an ordinance?
I noticed the other day that it looks like Hyde Park moved their valet station around the corner onto Poplar. Thats a great move for them, I’ve almost run down a number of their dimwitted patrons.
If you pay to park in a garage, pretty much free. They’re proposing a 4% surcharge on parking garages in the “benefit zone”. So the $2 parking garage becomes $2.08, and you ride the streetcar for $0.08. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle passengers…I bet they let them on as well.
That might be jumping to conclusions. Lets wait and see how many meters are wiped out once the engineering is done. Like Walker said, there are plenty of parking garages to pick up the slack. Cars in garages make for a much better place than cars lying all over the streets.
It’ll take my car off the street. I usually make a quick lap looking for free street spots, then throw my keys at a valet for $5. I can’t get over what a good deal that is.
While the legislation is still being drafted, it was mentioned that garages that would see the 4% increase and ticket sales affected by the 4% increase would also act as vouchers for Streetcar riding. I’m not sure logistically how that will work, but that’s what’s been said.
+1
I am pretty sure there is not a parking garage behind Axis. Maybe I just haven’t seen it, but that’s where I park, and a parking garage seems hard to miss.
You’re right Tigertree, no parking garage behind Axis.
There should be :) Although, the residents directly west of there might disagree… I parked there when I lived on Buttles, Thur-Fri after 6pm till 3am was a nightmare, both my truck/trailer were damaged twice, my partners car got hit 3 times ($2500 in damage), my other car was hit once. – and don’t get me started on the number of liquor/beer bottles you’d see on Saturday/Sunday morning. I would have gladly paid a fee to have something that was more “managed”. It was a big part of why I moved out of the area…
+1000
I’m surprised the owners of the vallets let this happen as to give their customers who don’t use the vallets better spots (potentially)
I’ve almost hit several customers at Hyde walking into traffic, or their vallets running across against the light. My favorite is the customer pulling forward without looking and thinking nobody in traffic wants to turn on goodale.
This always ticks me off when I’m looking for a parking place. However when I see a red coat running toward me I do slow down hoping they will grab a car in front of me and I canz slide into that space. :twisted:
A Parking garage behind Axis/Tigertree would be awesome, I’m sure they could create something on the backwall to make it more pleasing to the residents. Maybe a wider sidewalk with greenery and benchs? jmo
Has anyone ever tried to convert the huge lots behind our whole block into larger parking structures? It seems like one hell of a solution. Since there it’s already being used for parking, I don’t think “we would rather see that developed into something else” could be a viable argument. Since it’s directly behind a solid block, no one would have to see it.
I used to vist the SN regularly, not so much anymore cause I don’t want to deal with parking there.
maybe I’ll visit more often when I have the bike out more, parking is much easier when parking a motorcycle instead of a car. also, i’d rather ride a motorcycle around the SN looking for a spot than being trapped in a car doing the same thing.
I designed a parking garage for that lot as part of my senior thesis in college. Mine was clad in all black stone though. It looked like the monolith. I did have some greenery but no park benches. Why would you want to sit behind a parking garage and stare at someone’s house?
Except the residents
I’m not sure who owns it haven’t really checked that out. The only reason against it I would guess the Axis owners do their Rockin/Dancin in the streets. They could always get the area beside ibza for the once a year event.
I designed a parking garage for that lot as part of my senior thesis in college. Mine was clad in all black stone though. It looked like the monolith. I did have some greenery but no park benches. Why would you want to sit behind a parking garage and stare at someone’s house?
Mainly for residents wanting to chat or people needing to take a break from walking to/fro the park? People using the parking garage waiting for friends. IDK (green space and benches just seem to go together) Stalking someone living across the street. :lol:
I designed a parking garage for that lot as part of my senior thesis in college. Mine was clad in all black stone though. It looked like the monolith. I did have some greenery but no park benches. Why would you want to sit behind a parking garage and stare at someone’s house?
Mainly for residents wanting to chat or people needing to take a break from walking to/fro the park? People using the parking garage waiting for friends. IDK (green space and benches just seem to go together) Stalking someone living across the street. :lol:
Since it is right behind Axis it would most likely be used as the truck-stop of the short north if you get my drift…