By adamg on Wed., 7/22/2015 - 8:10 am
South Boston has a parking problem. Excel High School on G Street thinks it has an answer: Let residents park in its lot overnight - for $1,200 a year.
Eileen Murphy posted a copy of the notice for the Aug. 5 meeting the school is holding on the proposal - in which 60 spaces would be set aside for evening and weekend parking by the winners of a parking lottery, who would be billed quarterly.
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Sounds pretty fair to me
By Pete Nice
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 8:38am
nt
Not unreasonable
By relaxyapsycho
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:49am
Though a bit much considering you'd still have to move the car by 6 am. Show up at 6:01 and your car is already being towed all the way to Brighton.
EDIT: Fucked up your/you're
Yea, usually teachers don't get their till 7am.
By Pete Nice
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 8:45am
So ticket at 6am, then tow by 7 or 7:30.
7am?
By teacher's spouse
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 3:50pm
school starts at 7:25, a lot of teachers get there before 7.
Custodians get in at 6am and
By BPlusPlayer
Thu, 07/23/2015 - 2:12pm
Custodians get in at 6am and a lot of teachers have access to the building soon after.
I've seen that lot.......
By Pete Nice
Thu, 07/23/2015 - 2:35pm
Many people show up at 6am. Most don't show up until closer to 7am.
"you're car"
By Steeve
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:29am
Maybe they could throw in a lesson!
FUCK
By relaxyapsycho
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:49am
One of my pet peeves and I screwed it up.
Luckily, my parents cared enough about me to not allow me to go to that abomination of a school.
Street spots too!
By dga
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 8:47am
They could fix the parking problem simply by charging $1200 per year for a resident parking permit. There are far too many barely-used cars filling the streets. There ought to be a strong incentive to encourage car sharing.
How about $600 for the street
By Pete Nice
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 8:54am
And $1,200 for the off street.?
Well whatever
By SC from JP
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:17am
But surely it should be more than $0.
People park there now for
By MIMI
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:22am
People park there now for free.
Missing is the fact that
By MattyC
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:34am
Missing is the fact that those spots are de-facto open to the public for free right now in the overnight and weekend. The neighborhood knows that you can park overnight there already, so this feels like a money grab by a public institution.
Why should anyone get to
By anon
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 9:44am
Why should anyone get to store private property on public property for free? The school dept is paying money to maintain the lot. Why should people get to freeload on that in off hours?
charter schools
By aegtx
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:04am
are often run for profit.
This is not that.
By MattyC
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:45am
This is not that.
But maintenance, security,
By anon
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:08am
But maintenance, security, insurance on that lot comes out of that institution's operating budget. Dealing with people who don't leave on time, block other spots, etc, comes out of the institution's time and manpower. If the neighborhood wants to start covering the costs of their free parking through taxes, that's fine, but otherwise it seems perfectly fair for the school to charge a cover.
the neighborhood already pays
By MIMI
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 11:39am
the neighborhood already pays property taxes. Should they pay an additional tax?
It isn't a tax
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 12:44pm
This is a user fee. You are using school property to store your private property.
By your logic, people should be able to use this property for free storage of RVs, Boats, or a place for relatives to pitch tents when visiting, etc. Where does it stop?
Yes. I thought that was
By anon
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 1:50pm
Yes. I thought that was implied. They pay a tax to run a school, not a public parking lot. Stop stealing operational funds so you can park your car for free.
So how much more is the so called operational cost of the lot?
By SeanG
Thu, 08/20/2015 - 9:12pm
...considering it is being used all day by the School itself. Bogus weak argument to use the "extra" costs of the the lot. That lot has been there forever, the only change is the head master wants to take money from neighbors.
If it's private property, isn
By Patricia
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:29am
If it's private property, isn't it their perogative to charge? In my opinion, they'd be crazy not to.
Excel High is a BPS public
By MattyC
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:45am
Excel High is a BPS public school. Nothing private about it.
Never mind
By erik g
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 1:20pm
Deleted my previous comment--I thought this was a school affiliated with the Excel Academy charter network. Looks like they're unrelated.
That was what I thought too.
By aegtx
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 2:56pm
That was what I thought too.
Missing is the fact that
By anon
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 2:07pm
every vehicle parked in the lot now has out of state plates. Newbies who avoid registering their cars in the state, never mind the City, get a free ride with this off street parking.
This will fix that
By amian
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 3:31pm
The notice says that the lottery for spaces is only open to residents with a South Boston resident sticker, which cuts out all the freeloaders who don't register their cars here. Makes sense to me.
Why screw up a long standing
By Citygirl
Fri, 07/24/2015 - 9:43am
Why screw up a long standing neighborhood agreement with the school? Just require that to park in the city owned lot, you must have a city issued resident sticker. No lottery, no payments. The tow truck will keep an eye on the lot and remove out of state cars. It is a city owned facility. We already pay excise tax and high rates to insure our cars in Boston. Most (if not all) BPSs have similar understandings with their neighbors.
Interestingly, the women who are proposing this both have off street private parking. It's so nice that they are proposing to charge the rest of the neighborhood who do not have off street parking and remove the opportunity for many neighbors who have no other option. I still can't figure that one out.
Winter Parking
By ATA
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:14am
Think they'll mention that you can't park there during a snow storm/snow emergency, or wait until the first person gets towed to make that known? $100 for a spot that can't be guaranteed when parking is at its worse seems like a great way to raise money....
Sorry but every time I see the name Excel High School
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 10:55am
I must laugh. We may not teach much but we can offer overnight parking.
Catholic Charities at the Laboure Center
By GoSoxGo
Wed, 07/22/2015 - 5:45pm
started offering overnight spaces for a monthly fee about two years ago in their D Street lot near West Broadway, and will tow cars without the placard or sticker. Prior to that, all the locals would park there without permission overnight. I believe the rate was $150 per month when it was first implemented, but response was rather tepid. I don't know if they cap the amount of available spaces, but there are still plenty of empty spaces overnight.
The only BPS school that
By BPlusPlayer
Thu, 07/23/2015 - 2:17pm
The only BPS school that charges for parking is the McKinley and that's only for concerts and sox games. This wasn't proposed by BPS, it was proposed by the headmaster and two neighbors. They haven't gone through the right channels yet and would have to show where the money is going.