Ridgely's Delight, Baltimore

 

 

 

 

 

Possible Options for Addressing Parking Problems in Ridgely’s Delight
(Currently Area 5)

 

Following are the options that were discussed at last night’s parking meeting. They include the suggestions added by the participants.

We are in the process of developing a full option paper that includes a more detailed discussion of each option, including pros and cons. The group working on this is in the process of reaching agreement on the information in that document. We hope to have it out in the next several days.

When considering these options, please remember that the neighborhood may decide to pursue more than one of these options, as long as the options chosen are not mutually exclusive.

  1. Guest Passes
    Pursue individual complaints against visitor passes being used illegally as permanent passes (at least 3 times a week for at least 3 consecutive weeks on the same car) and/or eliminate visitor permits for area 5.
  2. Cars that Do Not Move
    Report these cars to the police by pursuing individual complaints against cars that don’t move for extended periods of time and are essentially stored on the street.
  3. Future Development
    The Ridgely’s Delight Neighborhood Association should not approve any future requests for their support of zoning changes involving development without onsite parking.
  4. Angled Parking on Portland
    Angle the parking on one side of Portland to add spaces. In order to do this, Portland will have to become a one-way street.
  5. Change the renewal month to the end of September or October.
    This will place renewal after graduating students have left the neighborhood.
  6. Encourage the City to Adopt a License Plate Recognition (LPR) System for Parking Permits
    This has been under discussion for some time. It requires specialized equipment and would allow us to control misuse of guest permits by enabling the city to know when someone is allowing these to be used daily.
  7. Limit the Number of Decals per House
    Permit only 2 decals per legal dwelling unit (four decals per house plus a guest pass are currently allowed)
    There are several possible approaches.
    • Simply implement this change or
    • Implement the change but grandfather in those residents who have more than 2 while they remain here. When those residents leave, however, the maximum number of decals for that residence would revert to 2.
  8. A related suggestion is to go to tiered pricing for multiple decals so that each decal would cost more money (e.g., the first decal would be one amount the second a higher amount, the third a higher amount still and the fourth the highest amount).
  9. Split the neighborhood into 2 Areas
    • One that has restricted parking in the Evening (Northern Area) and one that follows the existing rules (Southern Area).
    • One that has restricted parking at all times (Northern Area) and one that follows the existing rules (Southern Area).
    • The third option is for each side to set their own restrictions (exact times to be determined via input from residents).
  10. Rerun the petition with different hours of restriction. Hours to be determined via input from residents.
  11. Rerun the prior petition with restrictions throughout the neighborhood from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m.
  12. No change.
  13. See if we can create a neighborhood enforcement group that can go around the neighborhood and report car violations.
    • An alternative version of this would be to invite a traffic enforcement officer to accompany us at times on our COP walks.
  14. Contact the University of MD about giving their employees parking.
  15. Encourage people to use the Burgundy Lot when their car is not going to move for an extended period.

 

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