The impending draft create a blue area in the Las Planas is creating a major controversy. On one side are merchants who demand the blue area to receive guests who come to the neighborhood to buy car. Then there are local residents, led by Association of Veins Les Planes , they find that if it goes ahead the blue area will have to start paying to have the car on the street.
is amply demonstrated by experience that the Blue Zone parking is a clear boost for the trade factor. Lets find parking relatively easily in exchange for paying a fee also relatively cheap. Without doubt, this is the hope of the neighborhood merchants Planas they see as daily and are squeezed by the established customs of making purchases in large areas rather than in stores.
On the other hand neighbors believe that the cost of this project is going to pay them. If today it is highly difficult to park in the neighborhood of The planes will be even with the new measure because it understands that parking in the blue areas will be restricted to two hours maximum as usual. Therefore the search must be made safe parking outside these areas will have greater pressure to be reduced useful parking for residents.
The sprawl particular and somewhat chaotic neighborhood of Las Planas and the non-existence of private parking in the basements of the buildings made the measure that is to make it painful for residents who are usually desperate, and today, find a parking garage.
Residents of Las Planas are mobilizing to oppose this project. It is making a petition by the Neighborhood Association and Las Planas held a demonstration last December 19th.
For its part the government team to the criticism of the project is limited to comment that it is a demand from traders and to some extent adopts an attitude of "washing hands" in the subject. We believe that this position does not help solve the conflict of interests between local residents and businesses. We believe that the city if you think the project is beneficial to the city should lead it bluntly while neighborhood should address complaints to provide some solution such as the empowerment of a free public parking space and even when away from the urban core.
further question is whether the type of existing businesses in the neighborhood and the movement it produces is big enough or are expected to increase to justify the measure. The analysis we made from this blog is that trade in Las Planas feeds almost entirely of residents who obviously do their shopping on foot. Existing businesses are those that might call The "lifetime" with customers in the neighborhood. Part of this lifelong customer who has changed his place of residence to another neighborhood or another town which is today considered to be the real demand of the future blue zone. In the past, sought to encourage the parking lot providing the parking rotating beneath the Market Square of places in boarding arrangements. But these places soon disappeared. "The project failed because there was no real demand for this type of car or why he concluded that it was more profitable to rent or sell these seats? We
if the project were carried out involving the momentum traders who need current and future neighborhood and that we should not forget the extreme difficulties being experienced by the new businesses that open in the neighborhood and that the vast majority of cases have to leave the business within two years. On the other hand, if the expected results do not occur over a reasonable time, for example two years, the council should not hesitate to undo the measure. Surely the neighbors in this case would be appreciated.
