Another Story About Parking
The City of Sweetwater was proud of a private developer that built a fifteen story, five hundred unit apartment building across the street from Florida International University. Affordable housing for students and the owners gave tenants parking passes for the garage on university property and a shuttle bus. The building has only twenty five parking spaces on site.
City leaders which according to their own code require 1.5 parking spaces per apartment, thought they had covered their bases with the shuttle bus/garage arrangement with the university. The shuttle bus is inconvenient and crossing four lanes of traffic after dark is peligroso. Students park overnight on City streets and the City of Sweetwater responds with tickets and towing illegally parked cars in the neighborhood.
There are plans for a pedestrian over pass, but that make take a couple of years.
This tidbit courtesy of the Miami Herald.
City leaders which according to their own code require 1.5 parking spaces per apartment, thought they had covered their bases with the shuttle bus/garage arrangement with the university. The shuttle bus is inconvenient and crossing four lanes of traffic after dark is peligroso. Students park overnight on City streets and the City of Sweetwater responds with tickets and towing illegally parked cars in the neighborhood.
There are plans for a pedestrian over pass, but that make take a couple of years.
This tidbit courtesy of the Miami Herald.
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