If you don’t live in Provo, what activities bring you to Provo?
(check all that apply)
No response.
In your experience, are there issues with crowded parking in Provo?
Crowded parking - in many areas
How much should cost recovery or subsidization be part of more parking enforcement?
Cost of parking enforcement - 0% subsidized, 100% cost recovery
Rate your support of the concept of paid parking as a mitigation tool against crowded on-street parking?
Support - Really support
How important are these factors in a parking management program?
More enforcement - Not important
Clear signage - Very important
Ease of payment for parking - Very important
Permits for property owners - Very important
Time limits - Important
Cost recovery - Somewhat important
Parking fees - Somewhat important
Resident input - Important
Do you have any other comments about this proposal?
In looking at the comments posted by others in opposition to the proposal I've noticed a common, but faulty assumption: all or most BYU students own a car. I understand why this assumption is there. Outside of BYU, you need a car for just about everything, but on campus and in the area around campus that is not true and many students cannot or choose not to bring a car to Provo (speaking from my experience as a Junior at BYU). I think this program would persuade those that are on the fence about whether or not they need a car to find another alternative and I support it.
Additionally, this might encourage more students to use UVX to get to campus. BYU already has shuttles that make trips to apartment complexes that are further from campus and students use them. At peak hours they are filled to the brim. I can see the same happening with UVX if parking is difficult to find. Students can park near UVX stations in Orem and ride the bus down to Provo. People have been acting like if students (of whom I am one) can't drive to campus, they won't be able to get here at all. This is not true. I think that the cost of parking should be moved from the community to the individual using it such that individuals will think about using the parking the same way they would expending any other resource (not charging for parking does not get rid of the cost it just obscures it).
I've been doing some research on what modern city planners and reporters are saying about free versus paid parking. I've been trying to find something, anything with convincing evidence that free parking would be helpful in a landscape such as Provo. I googled the phrase "why free parking is good" and in the first two pages every article except for one were opposed to free parking with one exception that didn't show up until the second page (which I will discuss in a moment). If there was a good argument for free parking in cities I would imagine that googling a biased phrase like "why free parking is good" would find it immediately. The one article that I did find made a good case for the situation entirely different from Provo, a suburban/rural area where transit was minimal and people lived far from the college campus in question— this is very different from BYU which is in a urban/ suburban area and provides good transit and reasonably good walkability. Lots of people are having knee-jerk reactions to a threat to something we've always gotten for seemingly free (though it never has actually been free) and post those reactions in the feedback, but I'd like to see someone introduce qualified sources backing up those knee jerk reactions and big government solutions like building more parking structures and increasing parking minimums on apartment complexes.
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Do you live in Provo?
If you don’t live in Provo, what activities bring you to Provo? (check all that apply)
No response.In your experience, are there issues with crowded parking in Provo?
How much should cost recovery or subsidization be part of more parking enforcement?
Rate your support of the concept of paid parking as a mitigation tool against crowded on-street parking?
How important are these factors in a parking management program?
Do you have any other comments about this proposal?
In looking at the comments posted by others in opposition to the proposal I've noticed a common, but faulty assumption: all or most BYU students own a car. I understand why this assumption is there. Outside of BYU, you need a car for just about everything, but on campus and in the area around campus that is not true and many students cannot or choose not to bring a car to Provo (speaking from my experience as a Junior at BYU). I think this program would persuade those that are on the fence about whether or not they need a car to find another alternative and I support it.
Additionally, this might encourage more students to use UVX to get to campus. BYU already has shuttles that make trips to apartment complexes that are further from campus and students use them. At peak hours they are filled to the brim. I can see the same happening with UVX if parking is difficult to find. Students can park near UVX stations in Orem and ride the bus down to Provo. People have been acting like if students (of whom I am one) can't drive to campus, they won't be able to get here at all. This is not true. I think that the cost of parking should be moved from the community to the individual using it such that individuals will think about using the parking the same way they would expending any other resource (not charging for parking does not get rid of the cost it just obscures it).
I've been doing some research on what modern city planners and reporters are saying about free versus paid parking. I've been trying to find something, anything with convincing evidence that free parking would be helpful in a landscape such as Provo. I googled the phrase "why free parking is good" and in the first two pages every article except for one were opposed to free parking with one exception that didn't show up until the second page (which I will discuss in a moment). If there was a good argument for free parking in cities I would imagine that googling a biased phrase like "why free parking is good" would find it immediately. The one article that I did find made a good case for the situation entirely different from Provo, a suburban/rural area where transit was minimal and people lived far from the college campus in question— this is very different from BYU which is in a urban/ suburban area and provides good transit and reasonably good walkability. Lots of people are having knee-jerk reactions to a threat to something we've always gotten for seemingly free (though it never has actually been free) and post those reactions in the feedback, but I'd like to see someone introduce qualified sources backing up those knee jerk reactions and big government solutions like building more parking structures and increasing parking minimums on apartment complexes.
Link to Google Search of "why free parking is good"