I also remember reading that a new city ordinance will be to install sidewalk next to the gaping hole – I assume this will mean the elimination of 3 more spots from this area.

We need the angled parking – the parallel only works for people who stay at home all day or get off of work at 2:30 pm.

Edit: It's probably not just this community but…. :)

Obviously, increasing density of housing doesn't decrease the need for a car, only the hassle with owning one. If people didn't buy or rent housing without adequate off-street parking there would be less incentive to build it.

BTW, did anyone see/hear the car that jumped the traffice circle last night?

And no – I'm not for real arguing with you. Agreeing with you, in fact. But SPIDERS. You see my point.

Please don't log out forever and ever. ;)

That said, I'm frustrated by how many people comment about how people who park around here can get over it, and, as one said, “walk another block”. My husband and I are a two car family; we'd love to be a one car family but for our lifestyle it's just not feasible. We've tried to work it out, but we can't. His job requires use of his vehicle and I have physical impairments that restrict my ability to walk the distances required for regular bus use. We are responsible with our cars and put only about 1,000 miles per year on my car. Not that it should matter, but we willingly recycle even though our building doesn't have bins (long story, we think it's bs, but whatever).

Here's the rub- we have one spot with our home, but beyond that it's nearly impossible for my husband to find parking. He frequently has to park multiple- not 1, for the snarky person, but multiple blocks away. He works 3 jobs and is in school full time so he has massive amounts off stuff that he's lugging back and forth, not to mention the fact that he leaves for work at 3 am and if he forgets something it's a huge pain in the a. Now, I don't say this to make anyone feel sorry for us- we love Ballard, we made sacrifices to live here, and we suck it up and take it when things like this happen.

All of that said, we completely do not appreciate the lack of proper planning in this area. If you want to remove all that made Ballard great and gentrify the hell of out it, suck as it may, so be it. But it's absolutely preposterous to try and force people to be de-vehicleized (yeah, made it up) by getting rid of parking while cramming in vomitous (that's a classic I made up) dense-housing developments with completely inadequate parking. I'm sorry that it's tough to drive through there, but you can take a different street. That's a whole lot easier than moving out of a neighborhood you love when the ability to stop the over-population via condos and townhomes has been all but completely stripped from you.

The parking situation sucks, it's compounded by people getting up on here and being complete jacka's for no good reason other than b/c they can since it's essentially anonymous. What happened to working together, trying to make things better? Myballard.com seems to think that's important, so why don't the (majority of) people who comment? I'm saddened that I'm neighbors with such vindictive people when we all have the privilege of calling one of the best neighborhood's in one of the greatest cities in the world home.

End rant.