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...parking meters: who needs them?
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customers are from out of
town, and don’t know
about the 9:00 o'clock
meter rule.”
Mr. Kalmbach told us
that he hadn’t seen the
police at show times on
Fridays while the theater
was closed for several
months recently. The police
re-appeared, he claims,
when the movie house
opened again.
‘“We’ve received about
70 letters complaining of
the meters in the last four
years,” Mr. Kalmbach
said. He also feels that the
meter hours are poorly
marked, which he thinks is
‘‘very deliberate on the
part of the Borough. It’s an
interesting way of raising
revenue.’
Parking meters have
stood along Market Street
in Marietta since 1957.
Police Chief Millar was a
hairdresser on Market
Street then. When the
question of meters was
raised, he took a stand for
them.
‘“S4 per cent of my
customers were from out of
town,’’ he told us, ‘‘but
they all signed a petition to
keep the meters.”
What about Mr. Pines’
letter of last week? ‘‘That
man lied,”” was the Chief’s
response. ‘‘First of all, he
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said all the businesses
were closed, and that just
isn’t true...’”’ Here he
listed almost all the busi-
nesses on Market Street,
all of which were open
when Mr. Pines went into
the theater.
According to police re-
cords, Mr. Pines was
ticketed at 7:15 that night.
This is the same time that
Mr. Pines, in his letter,
claimed to have entered the
Marietta Theater.
Answering charges that
the police hang around the
movie theater waiting for
out-of-towners to ticket,
Chief Millar said, ‘‘I em-
phatically deny that. We
have regular foot patrols in
the business district on
both Friday and Saturday
nights between 6:30 and
10:00, but no one hangs
around waiting to ticket
anyone. The ticketing is a
hit or miss activity. If a
policeman sees a flag, he
gives a ticket, but enforc-
ing the meters isn’t our
primary goal with the
patrols; crowd control is.
We patrol then because
that’s when we have the
most problems.”’
Commenting on the
complaints that the meters
are poorly marked, he
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noted that the signs in the
meters are small because
the meters themselves are
small. Extra signs would
cost extra money, he
pointed out.
Marietta policeman Steve
Englert told us that ‘‘Some
people really get bent out
of shape about parking
meters. I couldn’t tell you
how much trouble we run
into over them, and traffic
violations of all kinds.’’
Sgt. Englert stated that, on
occasion, people get so
bent out of shape that the
police are forced to arrest
them for disorderly con-
duct.
Mr. Pines’ letter is the
second one the Marietta
Police have ever received
complaining about the
meters or meter enforce-
September 28, 1977
ment, according to Chief
Millar.
Chief Millar doesn’t
think 2-hour meterless
parking would be a good
idea in Marietta, due to the
many residences in the
business district. Now, he
said, many people who live
on Market Street plug the
meters all day, and enough
park elsewhere that park-
ing is available for store
customers. He said, also,
that Marietta doesn’t have
the police manpower to
enforce meterless parking
limits.
‘“When I get a ticket, |
get mad. Everyone does.
That’s just human nature. |
feel the meters are the best
way to control parking
downtown, though,’’ he
told us.
. forget that
“tax brea
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per year. starting next
year. If the state money
does come through; local
people won't have to pay
for the repairs.
When the Board reopen-
ed their budget (a formality
which allows them to get
the subsidy), they carefully
included the option of re-
turning some money to the
taxpayers, which led our
reporter to the conclusion
that local people would
possibly get tax refunds in
the mail. In fact, though,
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the Board members say,
they were only making the
wording of their motion
conform to state require-
ments.
Board members point out
that the cost of returning
money directly to local
taxpayers would, in any
case, burn up half of the
subsidy. In the long run,
they say, we're better off
using the subsidy to hold
down taxes in future years
—and that is exactly what
the Board is trying to do.
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