1971/08/11 Council Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

259 August 11,1971 that the EVER-PARK-garage should be Gn-a competitive basis. Ho said he felt that it.bas-not-fair for a parking gwimge to be sgbsidized as this one obviously was to be in competition with a to/ma e additionalach hour eas was o 20f with a f $11.00 p y Councilman Dobler asked him if they would participate in the validation system as being proposed by the Downtown Association and Mr.Miller said that the Allied 5 - $15.00 Stores saa month, id a$10,0a month and they had a rate for 15 or abbe cars from One combo,$12.00 per month. Councilman bangus asked if he felt that there would be any benefit to the Bon Marche fron having this other parking garage and Mr.benefit. dno thereed feel that there was a wasa garage directly wdjacent to the Bon Marche StOre, their ow,parking garago so another.one in this area would not particularly helo. /1 their garage f was full..d be an additiono overflowing, h as it was,they were not full so he felt garage the Bon Marohe would not receive ana benefit. Councilman Rucker said he felt from the talk he had beard that the people were staying away Bon Marche parking garage mainly because fMarche would not validate their parking rom -t oughthey had come down particularly to shop at that store, He said hopefully the rest of the merchants would use ct-1 validation system so that PeoPie coo.,arz free,eb to speak,in the EVER-PARE Garage. He said he felt that even though the Bon validating the parking they probably 1 d benefit from-people coming into their store.because had whoppediat other wtores•wbo were under the validation system,noitherefore,the Bon would benefit more than at the present time. Court Behan operator of a parking garage at theheen for some tame. In the gravelled Portion of tbe corner of Wall Wetmore appeared and said he too felt the parking rates were too low. He said thesr mOnthlyyrate for parking was$14.00 a month and had lot it was$12.00 per month. He said he charged • 35f for the first hour,then there a prime break at 3 hours so that anything in one hoar three hours would be fe was 75$and then a maximum of$1.00 all also had the 25,nightly rate. He said h,five hours �n } e didn't see how the parking garage could pay for itself wits sac,low rates,but of course,it was suh- sidized whereas his was not being subsidized. j N- Councilman Dobler said there were twO 9lots a block each way from the proposed EVER-PAM, garage,One of them aharged �9 t C r he L# 1! e other one charged 25C each hour with a maximhm of$1.00 all ates for the EVErz-PARX garage was a happy diumday. He said,therefOr,the proposed rs i