A little over a year ago we wrote about a proposal to establish a “resident-parking only” zone on the 3900 block of Hall Street, just off the Cedar Springs strip.
The RPO zone would prohibit non-residents from parking on the block during certain hours on weekend nights.
Some residents say the RPO is needed because they have no place to park due to spaces being taken by patrons of the gay entertainment district.
But opponents say those residents knew it was an entertainment district when they moved there, and they fear another RPO zone would make a bad parking situation worse in Oak Lawn.
There are dozens of RPO zones in Dallas — mostly in the Lower Greenville area. There currently is only one RPO near the gay entertainment district — in the 3200 block of Throckmorton Street.
According to Jim Musick, a resident of the 3900 block of Hall Street who opposes the RPO, the proposal appears to have been revived after more than a year.
“I find this totally inappropriate and offensive.” Musick wrote to Instant Tea.
Musick forwarded a note from the property manager for his complex seeking volunteers to circulate a petition in support of the RPO. As the note dated Oct. 12 states, the petition would need the signatures of two-thirds of homeowners on the block for the proposal to proceed. Here’s what the note said:
Hi All:
It had been mentioned to me at the Board meeting held last month that there is an interest in homeowners and guests being able to park in the street and spaces being available.
I met with a neighboring property on your street that I also manage and they have visited the city to see what needs to be done to apply for permits for homeowners on Hall Street . I have a form that each homeowner would have to sign and provide your license plate number. A total of 2/3 of the homeowners have to sign this document to be submitted to the city.
I need a volunteer that can visit each homeowner within your community to get it signed. Would someone like to help me with this project as I need original signatures?
Please let me know and I can drop by and give you the form.
Thanks
Ed
Ed Colvin, CMCA, AMS
Association Manager
Principal Management Group, AAMC, AMO
Are they trying to get 2/3 of the properties to sign or 2/3 of the residents? Only through DV have I’ve heard of the first, and now second, attempt to restrict parking on N. Hall. I just find it a little shady that most of the apartment residents know nothing about what’s going on with the neighborhood organization. The only people they care about are those who pay property taxes which is not me or most of the LGBT residents. This is a battle of elitist condo owners trying to take over the area. I do find it inconvenient that my friends have to park 3 blocks away on the weekend to visit me but if I wanted convenient parking, I would live in the suburbs.