If you think cars are a problem, get rid of your car, not your neighbors
There's a push in D.C. to selectively bar DC residents from getting Residential Park Permit (RPP) stickers. Developers of new buildings, as an incentive to winning approval for their project, will agree to bar provisions that bars its residents from RPP. I no longer own a car because, at this particular point in my life, there wasn't much need for one. But, nonetheless, feel very strongly about this issue: To create a class of citizens permanently barred from RPP is wrong. David Alpert, at Greater Greater Washington, recently summarized the issue . It begins: Councilmember Tommy Wells re-introduced legislation this week to let a developer of a new building promise that tenants can't get stickers to park on neighborhood streets, if they choose to offer such a guarantee to neighbors. People who end up in RPP-excluded building are going to be a permanent of class of very irritated residents. I would not be surprised if the buyers of these units have ...