if you park at Trader Joes... (Charlotte: Home Depot, restaurant, legal) - North Carolina (NC) - City-Data Forum

royalfortune · 02-20-2010, 11:59 AM

...And you leave your car in the parking lot and then walk over to the greenspace trail, you really ruin it for the rest of us (who are just trying to patronize the merchants there).

I'm not pointing fingers. I'm just saying.

MC

spankys bbq · 02-20-2010, 01:43 PM

Like people who park on side streets and go to work leaving someone who wants to go to a bar to walk half a miles because you're too cheap to pay to park. Novel idea......ride the bus of you can't afford parking.

Barkingowl · 02-20-2010, 02:29 PM

The developer shouldn't have overbuilt the parking lot there in the first place.

ex-burgher · 02-20-2010, 06:02 PM

The park and rec dept should have known that the street parking would fill up.

bs13690 · 02-20-2010, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by spankys bbq

Like people who park on side streets and go to work leaving someone who wants to go to a bar to walk half a miles because you're too cheap to pay to park. Novel idea......ride the bus of you can't afford parking.

If there is no restriction to parking on your street, I have the same right as you do to park there. Same deal goes for public parking lots. If there are no restrictions on parking there, no one has any right to complain about the lot filling up.

brokensky · 02-20-2010, 06:28 PM

Those parking spaces at the complex where TJ's is located are not public property. They are for patrons - or are supposed to be, lol.

What needs to happen is for the merchants to have the cars towed. I believe they have the right to do that.

bs13690 · 02-20-2010, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by anifani821

Those parking spaces at the complex where TJ's is located are not public property. They are for patrons - or are supposed to be, lol.

What needs to happen is for the merchants to have the cars towed. I believe they have the right to do that.

Agreed, and if they found it to be a big enough problem they would. Isn't there a ton of parking in that garage since Home Depot has closed?

southbound_295 · 02-20-2010, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by bs13690

Agreed, and if they found it to be a big enough problem they would. Isn't there a ton of parking in that garage since Home Depot has closed?

Isn't the garage at the midtown store near CMC? The South Charlotte store shares an open lot with way too many stores for the size of the lot.

DaddySpice · 02-20-2010, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by spankys bbq

Like people who park on side streets and go to work leaving someone who wants to go to a bar to walk half a miles because you're too cheap to pay to park. Novel idea......ride the bus of you can't afford parking.

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Originally Posted by bs13690

If there is no restriction to parking on your street, I have the same right as you do to park there. Same deal goes for public parking lots. If there are no restrictions on parking there, no one has any right to complain about the lot filling up.

Exactly. I don't see any difference between someone who parks on local streets for a job and someone who parks to go to a bar. Legal parking is LEGAL parking, whatever your reason for being there.

royalfortune · 02-20-2010, 09:18 PM

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Isn't there a ton of parking in that garage since Home Depot has closed?

Trader Joes on Rea Road, I mean.

Wish there was a parking garage there.

Wish the merchants towed trail-parkers in the lot. Some towing company could make a killing. And the merchants are losing out, with their (poorly designed) lot clogged with obnoxious trail-walkers parking their SUVs in the "compact" spaces, etc.

I'm just saying, is all. Would suggest that if you want to walk the trail please park on Bevington and not in the shopping center parking lot. But, I don't mean to start a fight or anything. Just wishing for some consideration. (And a parking place when I go to the store or restaurant.)

MC