Lisa Maxwell WRONG again

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Lisa has put out another video with wrong information. In it she says that the City charges businesses $15,000 per parking space in our downtown. Everyone should be very worried when someone who is running for office does not know the facts and then compounds that error by trying to convince you that she knows what she's talking about.

LISA IS
Wrong Again

So what's new?

The City changed that fee by cutting it in half to $7,500. The City is contemplating waving it on a temporary basis because of the bad economy. Rotelli's, a national chain, was the only business that ever paid the original fee. Lisa suggests that all these poor business paid this fee. Wrong again.

What is wrong with businesses paying a parking impact fee? It is the businesses that are attracting people to the downtown to shop or dine thus it is the businesses that have the greatest impact on our roads there. Businesses require parking. Many people must park on our city streets off of Lake and Lucerne. Should the taxpayer be picking up the tab? A one time fee for parking spots is not unreasonable. Revenue from that fee should go toward capital and Operation & Maintenance.

The other misinformation being spread around town is that business are not moving here and that we have dozens of empty store fronts. This is again, WRONG information.

If Lisa Maxwell attended city commission meetings she would know first-hand all the decisions that the city has made such as parking impact fees but we never see her there. What's more, her removal from the Planning & Zoning Board for non-attendance is indicative of her dis-engaged style of leadership. One call to her District Commissioner, Suzanne Mulvehill, would have given her the correct information. One call to the P&Z would have cleared this up. How can we expect someone who did not have the time to attend 20 Planning & Zoning meetings during the year attend 98 city commission meetings? How can we expect someone who did not even bother to make one call to verify a fact become our Mayor?

Let's elect a mayor who does know what's going on and does have the time.

What the Code says:

Fee-in-lieu of parking.
All uses which do not provide the maximum number of spaces required shall pay a fee-in-lieu of parking to the city. The fee shall be held in a separate fund to be used at a later time to provide new parking facilities or improve and/or upgrade existing facilities within the core area.

Payments-in-lieu. For any uses that elect to not provide any or all of the maximum number of spaces described required off-street parking described in section 23.21.01.13.B. above the owner or developer must make a payment to the city in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per space not provided.

Any changes in use, remodeling, building expansion or new construction that have the net affect of increasing parking demand by more than ten (10) percent (as calculated by the required parking in section 23.21.01.13), must provide parking as required by this section, unless a payment-in-lieu of parking is made to the city in the amount of seven thousand five dollars ($7,500.00) per space not provided.