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Sunday, January 13, 2008

New Dallas parking regulations take ticketees by surprise

"It's heeeere." (Restrictive residents-only parking enforcement, that is.)

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Example of the sort of parking affected by the new Dallas ordinance.

Example of the sort of parking affected by the new Dallas ordinance.

Long-time PegNews commentator (and editor/publisher of BarkingDogs) Avi Adelman got his two-cents in with reporters from nbc5i during their coverage of the first tickets issued to those who parked illegally in the new "resident only" zones along Dallas' lower Greenville Avenue district on Saturday (Jan. 12).

Referring to the newly-designated parking scofflaws and those of their ilk as disruptive to the neighborhood, Mr. Adelman goes on to describe the ways in which they are disruptive. The report also quotes those who returned from their bar, club or restaurant merry-making to discover the tickets on their windshields: unsurprisingly, those folks claimed ignorance of the law (which is, as we all know, no excuse).

Advisory to those who hadn't heard about the new regulations: start reading PegNews. It's both cheap and legal, and you can do it from the privacy of your home.


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chrisdanger Anonymous

I see Avi was happer than a pig in its own waste, but then again it doesnt take that much for someone like him. I'll be honest, I dont like people like Avi, he's anti-business and even his own neighbors dislike his actions. Why noone in belmont has the courage to step up to him is beyond me. Maybe its time it happends...

6 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

HC Anonymous

If Adelman keeps it up, he might just make that neighborhood attractive to me.

6 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

AviAdelman Anonymous

How come when Lower Greenville residents do something - anything - to protect their property rights and values, like RPO, someone claims we are anti-business.

Hey, fool, do you live down here, do you own a house down here?

If you answered NO to either question, then sit down and roll the chair away from the computer table. No one cares what you think when it comes to our property rights.

If you answered yes, then don't sign the RPO petition when it comes to your door, and try to convince your neighbors that drunks are more fun than quiet and clean streets. I'd love to see how far that argument goes.

The last time I looked, our residential streets were not put on this earth nearly 100 years ago for the benefit of anyone else but the residents.

Not the bars.

Not the drunks.

Just the residents.

We own the houses and we now control the streets. And you are all in a tizzy cuz you have to walk (stagger?) a little further to avoid paying outrageous parking fees.

Too frigging bad.

If the bars do not have enough parking for their patrons, they either need to find some more within 900 feet (per City Code) or close their doors and move to Middle Greenville.

As to 'standing up to me,' the last time I looked, which was a few hours ago, more than 70% of the residents or property owners on the RPO'd streets stepped up and signed the RPO petitions.

No one twisted their hands, held a gun to their head or threatened them.

All they had to do was look outside their door on a Saturday evening and make a simple choice...

Peace and quiet or drunken idiots

Thankfully, peace and quiet won the day.

And by the way, we just filed TWO more RPO petitions this weekend.

I figure by St. Patricks Day 2008 you are gonna be walking a whole lot further to the bars than you do now.

Enjoy the exercise.

6 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

chrisdanger Anonymous

Im not saying by enacting RPOs that the neighborhood is anti business, in fact im a huge supporter of RPOs as a whole, as I live in Ellum. I'm saying YOU, thats yourself avi, by your own actions appear this way. Taking pictures of people relieving themselves, calling people who put money into your neighborhood drunks and complaing to the cops every weekend about something or other minor occuring that you dont like is what I take issue with. My advice: Be the bigger man and handle this lowkey. When you behave like a braying ass in the press, people will assume you actually are.

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Robert Kelly Verified

Wow. I get to agree with Chris twice today. This time about the braying ass comment. I live in this neighborhood, and can walk or bike most places on lower greenville, so this has no real effect on me. If all these "problems" are the huge issues Avi makes it on a regular basis, there is always THE SUBURBS!! Quit trying to make the city the burbs, and we are all good.

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