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Sep 3, 2015
RBS rental fleets taking up all free parking around shopping center
One of the situations resolved by "fee parking" in Bet Shemesh has been the situation with the car rental companies. The car rental companies used to take up many spots in the parking lot of the shopping center of RBS A - and since paid parking went into effect, they have had to find alternate parking for their fleets so as not to incur high parking expenses.
According to Shemeshnet, the car rental companies have moved their cars, and now park all along the Nahal Tzeelim street, just outside the Merkaz Mischari, leaving no spots available for residential parking. Residents are upset that the rental companies are taking all their spots, leaving them nowhere to park, and no parkign tags are being distributed for residential parking as is done in many other places..
While the residents on the edge of Ramat Shilo, a bit further down, have a good complaint if the rental agencies are parking that far down, the residents at the higher end of the street really do not.
At the higher end of Tzeelim, the buildings are a part of the shopping center. All those residential buildings have underground parking lots, with parking for the residents. Shoppers are not allowed to park down in those lots.
The problem with those lots is that many of the residents have rented out there spots to stores that have opened up. The parking lots have basically been converted into underground malls. That means the residents are collecting rent off those parking spots, but don't have anywhere to park for free - not in the parking lot of the shopping cventer, and now not on the outer street because of the rnetal car fleets. I don't feel bad for them though, because they chose to rent out their parking spots, instead of using them for parking.
I do not see why they should have free parking spots, be able to rent them out for money, and then be able to demand more free parking.
While they say City Hall is not making residential parking tags available, the City did advertise in its media blitz that residents who do not own parking spots in the underground lots will be able to apply for residential tags allowing them to park for free. I would believe the residents if they said that despite the advertising, no such tags are available. If, however, the tags are not available because they own private spots that are now rented out to stores, I am less sympathetic.
Residents should be able to park their cars within reasonable proximity to their houses. They should not be able to complain if they gave up their spots for profit.
According to Shemeshnet, the car rental companies have moved their cars, and now park all along the Nahal Tzeelim street, just outside the Merkaz Mischari, leaving no spots available for residential parking. Residents are upset that the rental companies are taking all their spots, leaving them nowhere to park, and no parkign tags are being distributed for residential parking as is done in many other places..
While the residents on the edge of Ramat Shilo, a bit further down, have a good complaint if the rental agencies are parking that far down, the residents at the higher end of the street really do not.
At the higher end of Tzeelim, the buildings are a part of the shopping center. All those residential buildings have underground parking lots, with parking for the residents. Shoppers are not allowed to park down in those lots.
The problem with those lots is that many of the residents have rented out there spots to stores that have opened up. The parking lots have basically been converted into underground malls. That means the residents are collecting rent off those parking spots, but don't have anywhere to park for free - not in the parking lot of the shopping cventer, and now not on the outer street because of the rnetal car fleets. I don't feel bad for them though, because they chose to rent out their parking spots, instead of using them for parking.
I do not see why they should have free parking spots, be able to rent them out for money, and then be able to demand more free parking.
While they say City Hall is not making residential parking tags available, the City did advertise in its media blitz that residents who do not own parking spots in the underground lots will be able to apply for residential tags allowing them to park for free. I would believe the residents if they said that despite the advertising, no such tags are available. If, however, the tags are not available because they own private spots that are now rented out to stores, I am less sympathetic.
Residents should be able to park their cars within reasonable proximity to their houses. They should not be able to complain if they gave up their spots for profit.
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You are 100% right, but if you had to guess, how many spots were converted into stores. The Machsanim were converted - but the spots? Maybe 10-20 between Yesh and Shefa combined. Its mostly Machsanim. So while I agree with your statement, I think its too small a number to impact anything
ReplyDeleteunder the middle buildings it is pretty empty (as of last time I went in there a while back). under yesh and under shefa is pretty busy. even if the spots themselves arent rented, which I am not so sure about, plenty of the shops use the spots as well - they take out tables and display their wares outside of the shops.
Deleteparking down there is not realistic, because of the shops and because of the people walking through to go to the shops. and it is because the residents chose to rent out their lots.
There are no parking spots under Yesh and Shefa. If there were supposed to be - then obviously every last one of them has been converted, either into an actual store or into a machsan.
DeleteIn short, people are chazerim:
ReplyDelete* The rental car companies are chazerim because they don't set up their business in a place where they OWN their own spots.
* The locals in the center of town are chazerim because they are renting out their private spots and expect free parking nearby.
Meh.
I think it is pathetic urban planning that there is a shortage of retail space that ensures A) rent for the existing space stays high B) pirate stores are opened. Elad is rampant with this.
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