{"id":2452128,"date":"2019-12-11T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317476"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:15:00","slug":"aspens-whackamole-parking-problem-moves-to-next-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspens-whackamole-parking-problem-moves-to-next-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen\u2019s \u2018whackamole\u2019 parking problem moves to next neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The city is making moves on a popular east-side street to eliminate what has become a storage area for dirt bikes, trailers and vehicles.<\/p>\n

Starting this week, 72-hour parking along Lone Pine Road is being changed to a 24-hour zone.<\/p>\n

Signs have been erected to reflect the new restrictions, which will be enforced beginning next week with warning tickets, said Mitch Osur, the city\u2019s parking director.<\/p>\n

Beginning on Dec. 23, full enforcement of $50 tickets and towing will ensue.<\/p>\n

The change is mostly driven by the creation of a paid parking zone a few blocks over in the neighborhood of Park and Midland avenues this past spring.<\/p>\n

The E Zone, as it\u2019s known, is the sixth paid parking area in the city. It was established <\/a>to free up spaces in the heavily populated neighborhood. Now, people have to pay $8 a day to park there if they don\u2019t have a residential permit.<\/p>\n

Osur said residents in the area have generally deemed the change a success.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did prove that we can change behavior,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And whenever there is a change in parking policy, it typically creates a domino effect \u2014 a phenomena that Osur calls \u201cWhack-A-Mole\u201d in which the problem pops up elsewhere.<\/p>\n

That is now Lone Pine Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 24-hour will force turnover and no storage,\u201d Osur said Wednesday. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t work it would go to paid parking. \u2026 This is an intermediate stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Osur added that he doesn\u2019t see the 24-hour rule not working because he plans to have the parking department diligently enforce the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really confident that this is going to work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Osur will go before Aspen City Council in February to report on how the experiment worked, and will make recommendations going forward.<\/p>\n

He got a lot of heat from residents in the complexes along Lone Pine Road last fall when the city took away the 24-hour parking and restricted it to four hours<\/a> as a 90-day test.<\/p>\n

It was an attempt to combat the congestion on the road, which had become a place where commuters and skiers park their cars and head into town.<\/p>\n

But the four-hour restrictions didn\u2019t leave enough room for residents in the Lone Pine, Common Ground, Hunter Longhouse and Hunter Creek complexes to park in the 33 spots on the street.<\/p>\n

So last fall it became a 72-hour zone, and a year later congestion problems exist for another reason.<\/p>\n

Osur said he doesn\u2019t have a problem at this point with commuters or skiers parking there, as long as they are gone by the late afternoon to free up spaces for residents.<\/p>\n

csackariason@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city is making moves on a popular east-side street to eliminate what has become a storage area for dirt bikes, trailers and vehicles. Starting this week, 72-hour parking along Lone Pine Road is being changed to a 24-hour zone. Signs have been erected to reflect the new restrictions, which will be enforced beginning next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 02:40:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}