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# Park and walk is a good solution
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/park-and-walk-is-a-good-solution-editor/
- Published: 2007-09-24T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:56:08.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Jeff Segal North of Montana*

I recent read that the city is finally realizing that they spent a fortune to build a huge parking lot under the downtown library that gets virtually no use. (”Parking plan draws ire,” Sept. 11, SMDP, page 3) I also read that city staff now wants to intentionally allow new apartment buildings to be built with inadequate parking, suggesting that residents should use a parking structure which could be up to four to five blocks from their homes. It seems hard to believe that the city would be blind and deaf to the constant barrage of complaints that have resulted in the city being forced to create preferential parking on all the curbs of every multi-family district; which creates huge problems for small businesses, and is still woefully inadequate to meet residents’ needs.

I would like to suggest the following alternative. Change the after 6 p.m. rate, in the library lot, to a $1 fixed fee. This would give downtown visitors an incentive to walk the two extra blocks, providing badly needed relief to the Ocean Avenue to Fourth Street traffic congestion and parking space shortages.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 24, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)