the air over ongoing miscommuni-
cation on the restaurant's position of
paid parking on 131st Street, espe-
cially now that the business has
been threatened.
following an article, "Council Moves
Ahead With Paid Parking Areas," in
the June 7 edition.
because of the conflicting opinions
of paid parking on 131st Street. The
mayor submitted, on 131st Street
between the two restaurants locat-
ed there, the owner of J/R's had re-
quested paid parking on the street.
The mayor recommended the spac-
es that are contiguous to J/R's prop-
erty on the north side of 131st
Street be metered from 9 a.m.-mid-
night daily, leaving the nine parking
spaces contiguous to Crab Bag,
who is not in favor of paid parking,
be left as free parking. The compro-
mise was not accepted by the City
Council.
Street. In a letter to the city, J/R's
wrote it would support parking me-
ters being added throughout north
Ocean City if `revenue from the new
meters may alleviate new taxes.'
The support was not intended to be
taken as the restaurant is in support
of parking meters just being added
to selected blocks, such as 131st
Street, as was approved by the by
Mayor and City Council."
after he was approached by mem-
bers of the Ocean City Taxpayers
for Social Justice group, which is
circulating a petition against the
new areas of paid parking.
I wouldn't go along with signing the
petition against the meters that they
should boycott JR's. This has really
gotten out of hand," Hubberman
said.
Street was at the time when the city
was reviewing installing paid park-
ing on large spans of streets, not
when the City Council decided to
knock down the potential locations
to two streets in north Ocean City,
which is 131st and 146th streets.
areas for paid parking in early April
during the budget process to help
close a budget gap in the upcoming
fiscal year.
big picture, such as if the city ex-
panded paid parking on all ocean
blocks that would be 3,294 addition-
al spaces and generate $1.7 million.
At that time, the City Council direct-
ed staff to return with more defined
areas.
paid parking to help encourage
business turnover, such as 59th,
60th and 61st streets where Fager's
Island, Hall's Restaurant and the
Tennis Center are located that
would create about $25,000 to
$30,000 gross per street, as well as
131st Street between The Crab Bag
and J/R's.
parking because the street is cut in
half by the Maryland-Delaware line
and the Delaware half of the street
is already paid parking, among
other reasons.
street in north Ocean City I sure
hope that it will relieve some of the
taxpayers with taxes," Hubberman
said. "Well, everybody knows it's im-
possible for two streets to alleviate
any taxes. I mean, that's ridiculous.
So the outcome was, they turned
around and made it only two blocks
and I am one of them."