Oakland-parking-Jet

:Source: Jet Lafean to the Burghreport blog on 06.19.08.
The Schenley High School parking lot has NEVER been large enough for all the Faculty and Staff, and has always been allocated by the principal. Those not "blessed" by the principal are required to pay for parking in the Parking Authority's Lot at Centre & North Craig, or run out hourly to fill parking meters along Centre and Bigelow, or befriend Schenley Farms neighbors like myself, who allow teachers who we know to park on our property at NO CHARGE.
We complained vehemently when Schenley Plaza was proposed between the Hillman & Carnegie Libraries, without an underground parking level to replace those surface parking spaces being lost. We argued and demonstrated to our corrupt City Planning Commission that by not replacing these lost parking spaces with an EQUAL or GREATER number of underground parking spaces, a domino parking effect would occur, from Forbes up to Fifth, then Fifth up to Bayard, and then Bayard up to Bigelow and Centre, creating a huge illegal parking situation throughout the entire historic Schenley Farms neighborhood. As it turns out, we actually UNDERESTIMATED the projected illegal parking, as this illegal domino parking effect has extended completely through Schenley Farms and has pushed through to Bryn Mawr & Andover Terrace in the Hill District.
Almost daily, we have to have cars driven by PITT Students or Schenley Students, towed away, which are blocking our driveways or front steps, preventing the USPS from having access to deliver our mail, or illegally parked on our property.
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