Ah, the joys of public parking!
Parking problems have eased a little over at EMU since student enrollment is down and so is the demand for parking permits. Fewer and fewer students are parking on the grass next to the water tower so our brood of teenage driving tattlers here at the tower can park closer to home.
A parking tattler at EMU tells the winged-warrior that Mayor Paul Schreiber and DDA Dictator Brian “I can’t stay late” Vosburg have a secret plan for parking downtown.
Vosburg has been complaining about the parking study that was done by local resident Kevin Hill saying they need a professional parking study.
Vosburg told our Eagle tatt he wanted parking meters in all the downtown lots including the EMU lot north of the bus terminal. Vosburg and the Mayor went on to say they need parking meter revenue so the DDA has more money for special projects.
Their plan is to model the parking revenue program after the multi-million dollar per year revenue cash cow in Ann Arbor. During the Monday morning public radio beg-a-thon on WEMU, in between breaks Schreiber and Ann Arbor DDA Director Susan Pollay were sharing tips about increasing parking revenue.
When they came out from the WEMU studios, The two cars next to Schreibers car had parking tickets, the mayor’s car did not. Apparently the parking officers recognized the Mayor’s golden Impala.
The Ypsi Tattler 
Has anyone considered leap year? What about leap year? These signs say nothing of leap year. It happens 25% of the time. It deserves signage.
My friends and family look forward to the new restaurant , Wild Willy’s BB’Q , that will be in Depot town …..
The thing that now bothers us,is that the city , in all it’s dazzling glory , wants to use the only public parking in the area , that is behind Aubree’s and around the Frieghthouse area , for the Amtrak . This lot is always so full already , parking is already limited . Why can’t the city look at parking around the old depot there ? It is virtually unused , and NOT take parking from paying customers to the merchants in Depot Town . I think that before I opened any business in that area , I would want to know just what the city is planning . Especially a new restaurant . After all if they come to eat ,why would they want to drive around to look for a parking spot ?
Rumor has it the Sidetrack will be expanding their menu and offering up a new and improved barbecue menu. The Sidetrack has their own parking lot, so who really care which side of the tracks the train stops on?
The Tatt flew over the parking lot a couple of times this weekend, the lots were never full, sometimes there were 50 or 60 empty spaces. Except for Depot Town events, Heritage festival, and beer festival, the lots are rarely ever full.
Aren’t there plans for a pedestrian bridge to the Maple Street lot?
Where is the Depot Town parking problem? The lots are never full during the day and train users aren’t going to park there at night
The Tatt is looking forward to ribs at Sidetrack and Wild Bill’s.