Ok, I'm going to complain and/or write a letter to the editor of the Paducah Sun regarding this fantastic idea someone at city hall just came up with.
A few years ago the city of Paducah had a "meter maid". He walked up and down Broadway marking tires with chalk and giving out parking tickets to people that had been parked in the same spot for more than the allowed time. Nothing special, no one likes getting a ticket but this parking enforcement was necessary to keep downtown businesses happy. Available parking means customers. No parking, no customers.
For some reason the city did away with the "meter maid" position. Ever since downtown employees, business owners, etc. have taken advantage of the situation and parked in limited time spaces for as long as they needed. This presented problems to wanna be customers needing a place to park.
My wife, and I, own a consignment store called Trendy Repeats that was located at 428 Broadway. My wife attended Paducah Main Street meetings from time to time like a lot of other downtown business owners. She complained about the parking situation. I complained about the parking situation. We both stated the parking laws needed enforcement. They needed to get the parking laws enforced again. I even wrote a letter to the editor at the newspaper once about the issue. Did the parking situation get addressed? Nooooo!
It seems like it suddenly became a problem when some particular people began moving into the new condos downtown. Only then did it become an issue that was worth hiring a part time "meter maid" to enforce the parking laws.
