Please send the mayor and city council a brief email (to council@durhamNC.gov) asking them to
keep free parking on Ninth Street and in the Ninth Street lot. City staff is recommending
to the council that the city begin charging for parking on Ninth Street, to pay
for expenses associated with the new development on the west side of the
street. But the new development is bringing the city plenty of new revenue to
pay for these expenses—and to keep the parking free.
Paid parking will discourage people from shopping on Ninth
Street, it will create the need for guards to be
posted on the sea of free parking just about to open between the new Harris
Teeter and Ninth Street, and it will discriminate
against people who shop during the daytime, since parking will be free after 6:00 p.m. So you will be able to park for free
to come to Ninth Street to
drink late at night, but you will have to pay to park if you want to buy books
at The Regulator during the day.
If none of this makes much sense to you, please send an
email telling the city council that you support keeping parking on Ninth
Street free.
Thank you!
From The Regulator and the other independent locally owned businesses on Ninth Street.
