Love watching Mike Sullivan explain parking at the proposed Events Center site;
“You can find one, go around the parking lot. Granted, it may not be right next to the door but there’s definitely a parking spot,†said Mike Sullivan.
Yeah, it might be next to the Legion or Casa Del Ray, but hey, at least you have a parking spot.
Surprised Huether didn’t come climbing out from underneath that booth behind him to assist in the bullshit fest.
We could put a huge parking lot over in Brandon and then
run a spur from the High Speed Train Depot to the the Events Center.
Like
concerned liberal……….
I think that is the BEST comment I have ever read on this site………….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the laugh!
Make sure the train has a manure spreader behind the caboose and a route to the psych ward.
cl – that goes into the comment hall of fame! Well played, sir!
Tubular dude!!
Last night KELO did a story on how the home show wants to move into the new events center. They also stated the summit league tourney is always the same weekend. Does that mean the summit league will stay in the arena?
The Summit League certainly doesn’t need additional seats. But one of the reasons we “needed” this awful building is because the buzzer malfunctioned last year.
This is getting complicated. You mean now we are going to have to lay a second spur to the Sanford Health Pentagon to facilitate the pending overcrowding which
the Events Center is creating instead of solving?…..
Do I have that right? Pretty soon, all these spurs could
create a safety issue in Sioux Falls …. but at least the potential revenue from a large parking toll booth could be shared with Brandon to help them with their economic development fund … that’s the ticket.
Still wondering if someone from the private sector had proposed building a structure the same size as the EC how many parking places would have been required compared to the number that city hall has been selling to the good people of Sioux Falls?
KEYTAG — Its sad. Is it not? That, in order, to get the job done, a democratically-elected governing body has to fudge the facts, while the private sector approach would ironically be naturally forced to be more open.
Reminds the time all the good Lutherans showed up to the planning meeting and council meeting to bitch about a new Islamic Center. They said there wasn’t enough parking and ‘God Forbid’ those Muslims would have to park on the public street in front of their center. You are right, I have seen this time and again with the planning commission. They bend rules for certain people. Not sure if you knew it, but the guy who owned the Bagel Boy building asked the commission to build another parking lot behind the current parking lot. He talked to the renters and others in the neighborhood if they cared there was a parking lot next to them, and they said no. But the planning commission said NO. All political. So guess what happened since then? Bagel Boy is moving and the current building owner is out of a renter.
l3wis – you need to apply:
http://www.siouxfalls.org/News/2012/Februray/29/bd-vaca-planning
Lewis – you seriously want government of the neighbors, by the neighbors and for the neoighors?
Who are your neighbors?
How would that work in “Pettigrew Heights”? (or a few other “neighborhoods”). Wanna see a good example of neighborhood by neighborhood “planning” (everything goverened by local covenants and contracts – no city-wide plan – no zoning)? Visit Houston, TX. Want to build ANYTHING? First you have to convince all the neighbors. Now THAT is political.
Remember this argument against a downtown EC? “There’s no parking nearby, we’ll have to walk like 6 or 8 blocks to get there!” At least there’s a neighborhood to walk THROUGH downtown. Sheesh…
Parking regulations, in my opinion, are harmful to communities, and only serve to reinforce the automobile-centric lifestyle so prevalent in this country. It’s a manifestation of our complete abandonment of the public realm (i.e. streets) to moving cars. STROADS (see this site for details) devalue our neighborhoods and produce places, like the Arena complex, that are, simply put, wastelands.
Progressive, forward looking cities have imposed MAXIMUM parking regulations, and have encouraged alternative transportation options (like walking… imagine that?) to produce urban spaces that are enjoyable for people to live in, not just for cars. Why can’t we follow their example?
Ruf – I do think there should be zoning regs. What I am saying is that the city sets a different set of rules for themselves, and the planning commission often bases decisions on ‘politics’ instead of common sense.
ST – I have a feeling if I applied to the planning commission my application would end up in the same place as my last two 🙂
They should have immediately approved the Bagel Boy lot as it had become a serious traffic hazard on Minnesota Ave. I’ve seen so many near-accidents there as people come to complete stops on the street as they either wait for a spot to open or couldn’t get their oversized trucks into that tiny lot.
Scott – I.E, the nature of the business was negatively impacting the character neighborhood – safety, etc..
So which should change -the entire neighborhood, or the location of the business?
It sure doesn’t help that the only reasonable way to get to the old Bagel Boy is via automobile. Honestly, even if you live only a few blocks away, would you ever want to walk along Minnesota Ave if you didn’t have to? 45 mph traffic, no side boulevards, narrow sidewalks, seas of parking lots? I don’t think so.