Many of us in our Reston Town Center (RTC) have received information suggesting that paid parking will be implemented in RTC this coming summer of 2016. I want to do all that I can to insure that RTC employees, patrons, residents, and guests continue to have free (or, at worst, very-low-cost) parking available.
A recent email from the Executive Director of the RTC
Association included these sentences: “With
Wiehle being the westernmost Metro terminus, there has been a predictable
increase in demand for free daytime parking near that station. Town
Center has naturally been a target for that demand, and that is putting
pressure on parking that is designed for our employees, patrons, residents, and guests.”
I added the yellow highlighting because I believe the
identification of those four categories suggests my below proposal is
reasonable.
Prohibited or pay high fees:
Vehicles
with no connection to RTC, such as parking here solely to use buses or Metro to
DC, Dulles, etc., or to meet car pools, etc.
Free (preferred), or low fees (such as $2 per day
after first 3 or 4 hours free). (For these (below) categories, overnight and continuous parking should be permitted in the RTC garages that currently allow public parking at least
part of each day.):
Work in
RTC (“employees”)
Customers
of RTC businesses (“patrons”)
Live in
RTC (“residents”)
Visiting
RTC residents or businesses (“guests”)
