Every year for many, many years the local Elks have held a “parade” downtown.
No Parking signs used to go up the day before, chasing folks away for two days in a row. (since nobody bothered to read the small print stating date/time/etc) Now the signs go up the day of the parade, stating no parking from 1-5.
Each year the “parade” gets smaller. This year it only took 10 minutes and 31 seconds for the entire parade to pass.
The “parade” does not attract a crowd of any kind. When more people are in the parade than those watching, it’s a non-event.
It really pisses me off that someone allows such a non-event to jeopardize 9 blocks of parking for four+ hours.
This parade has become too small to warrant such a huge closure of parking spaces for such a long time.
Visitors see tons of no parking signs, don’t read the signs details and leave. For the past 4 years it has been the worst business day downtown. I am asking that the city shorten the parade route or limit such a small activity to a block party. I understand that the parade is all about fellowship, but what sort of fellowship involves hurting all of the businesses downtown!?