For $25, you can block up to 40 feet of parking. Go through the Streets Department. Just tell them you are moving. And this is pretty lame idea.

Haha, people like SouthST are precisely the reason why this will never be a real city. To you, and most folks in this country, a “city” is a more dangerous and urban epcot center. It is a place where you drive to get “culture,” hop in your car and get out.

Reality, to you, is a four lane highway lined with big box stores with convenient parking lots and office parks within a 30 minute drive of an identical and poorly built McMansion.

I’d feel sorry for you, but what’s the point. The truth is that on our current course cities will have to be more important. Carbon based energy isn’t sustainable, we are doing far too little to find alternatives and we have made almost no investment in public transportation that would allow people to stray from economic cores. Hilariously, your commitment to the short term selfishness that is the “American way” will be your own undoing.

SouthSt, you live in the city and don’t own a car yet still mouth the freedom = ability to buy cheap gas and park wherever the fuck you want mantra. Sorry, sometimes small individual sacrifices are required for communal benefits.

I am proudly un-American, working in an un-American field (Immigration). So I can sit smugly enjoying the fact that I daily piss off real ‘mericans like you…

Sadly, small-minded and short-sighted thinking like yours even on minor issues like this greatly undermines larger ideas.

Case in point, in order to have communal spaces, bike paths and walkways we need to make parking harder. In fact, we should be eliminating parking in front of buildings almost altogether and broadening the sidewalks and bike paths. In addition to the related needs of environmental protection and alternative fuel development, the biggest problem the country faces is healthcare costs. While few national politicians can admit it in their pandering to the ignorant, the problem is mostly that of prevention – read obesity. Less than half of Americans get the minimally required 2 and ½ hours of exercise a week. The reason for this is lifestyle.

The healthcare system in Europe is not superior, but their lifestyle is. Try driving into the downtown of most European cities. You can’t. The result is a healthier citizenry and much lower healthcare costs. Europe has other problems related to a lack of coordination and an inability to control monetary policy, but that’s not apropos here.

More exercise and healthful living, better public transportation and a cleaner environment, these things are only accomplished one small project at a time before there is a tipping point. It won’t be done by grand projects as the federal government is hamstrung by small-minded working and middle class whites and the rich people that own them. This is one miniscule step towards that tipping point.

As stated, your resistance is futile.