Chad West
Sure. Parking reform itself could be its own show. So here's a I I think a few examples of how our antiquated nineteen sixties parking code is impacting businesses would be helpful. So I have a I have not just one, but two coffee shops in one of my little neighborhoods called Elmwood. It's a great neighborhood, by the way, in District 1. And very cute neighborhood. The first coffee shop was not able to open because they have the antiquated parking code requiring one space for every 100 square feet in the business, including the kitchen area. So really, you just want to come in and get a cup of coffee, great. But he had to provide something like 15 parking spaces or something ridiculous. And this is in an area that's already been designed as car centric. Mhmm. It is tons of street parking, but because of the parking code, he couldn't count it. So you know what he had to do to he went to the Board of Adjustment, they refused his application. So what he had to do is pave his entire yard to park the cars there so that he could open his business. So we ended up harming the environment. You've now not got green space out there for people to sit, but his workers, who are the ones parking there all day, are now parking on the concrete in the house that's this old house in Downtown Elmwood. Just down the street's another business. I think it's about 1,800 square foot, a little, sandwich place. They can't get the proper CO to do beer and wine or other things they want to do because of the parking code. The most extreme example, and the reason why I opened the parking code in August of 2019 was a very tragic story actually. Just if you know where Bishop Arts is, where the street car stops at Bishop Arts, it's at the corner of Zang and, Davis. Okay. Okay. Just southeast of that, there is a CVS, and beyond that, there's a vacant lot.