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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/7/2023 Item 6a, Reed Pat Reed < To:E-mail Council Website Subject:Parking This message is from an External Source. Use caution when deciding to open attachments, click links, or respond. ________________________________ 1 Sent from my iPad 3 9:23 PM Wed Oct 25 ••• 7 , ^ 70%(<'1,' Edit a /%/Lr�) (:i III Sent CZ Search patty 9:21 PM No Subject My mail may have been addressed incorrectly. I'll try it again! patty 9:19 PM Fwd: Undeliverable: Parking disaster And this just appeared in my in box. All that effort for nothing Sent from my iPad Begin... patty 9:19 PM Fwd: Undeliverable: Parking disaster G And this just appeared in my in box. All that effort for nothing Sent from my iPad Begin... patty 7:07 PM Re: Parking disaster Don't write your mail before reading the "response" to my mail that I forwarded to... patty 4:56 PM Fwd: Parking disaster Thanks again for another joyful "our day". It was perfect in spite of the whole parking... �► council@slocity.org 4:48 PM Parking disaster To whom it may concern. Today my friend from Cambria and I, (from Morro Bay) did... Begin forwarded message: From: Pat Reed < Date: October 25, 2023 at 4:48:23 PM PDT To: council@slocity.org Subject: Parking disaster To whom it may concern. Today my friend from Cambria and I, (from Morro Bay) did our monthly trip to San Luis to shop, wander the downtown, and eat lunch. But first we had to park! What a disastrous mess you have made of the whole parking garage situation, not to mention the cost! Because we do make our shopping and eating trip every month, my friend who drives registered her car and license with the city for the first hour free. As the Palm St garage is the only one with the free hour option we parked there. After descending three floors down, and back up, (no elevator) to get to the machine to pay, we were fortunate to see the friendly young man to help us with the system which can only be called a nightmare. It's not always easy to estimate how long we will be and therefore could easily overpay, which of course generates no refund. If the time is underestimated another whole process begins where the payer will be billed. Also you have to mentally include the free hour which is somehow credited in the whole calculation. Keep in mind that we are two ladies in our 80s, which while on the old side, probably constitutes many people who want to spend the day shopping in SLO, and are completely turned off by the whole parking mess to the extent that we will seriously consider spending our time in Morro Bay and Los Osos, and at the shopping mall out of downtown. And I will add that when we arrived in downtown today there were practically no people walking in the core of downtown. At one shop where we have gone for years the owner told us that their business is off 50% since the new parking systems have been installed and rates increased. Even at Pottery Barn one of their employees expressed their worry about lost customers. Is the city deliberately trying to strangle the downtown and the businesses there that have made it a fun, atmospheric place to shop and eat? If that's the case you're doing a great job! Patricia Reed, Morro Bay Sent from my iPad Updated Just Now (�I O 2 Unsent Messages 13