DeKalb County Restricting Parking in Emory Village
Decatur Metro | November 15, 2011The AJC reports that DeKalb County is implementing 1-hour parking in Emory Village in an effort to attract more visitors to the area. According to the AJC…
The county will restrict parking to one hour from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays on North Decatur and Oxford roads near the commercial strip. Signs detailing the change will be up soon.
This seems like a good move, since parking is such a commodity around Emory. (ALL neighborhood parking in the area is resident only these days and Emory’s parking decks cost students an arm – and perhaps a leg – each semester.)
Thanks to Steve for pointing this out!
This will have the opposite effect once people start getting tickets and boots on their cars.
Sitting down for some mediocre pizza at Everybody’s? Better eat fast!
Oxford Road has become a mess. People are double-parking and blocking driveways (and being quite rude about it) and more or less stopping their cars and jumping out because they are “in a hurry” or because it will just “take a minute.” There’s guest parking at the Barnes and Noble (free for the first 15 minutes; $2 for an hour etc) but obviously some folks are not bothering with that. So, hopefully, meters (and tickets) will help.
The one hour limit is only for spaces along the public right-of-way, aka parallel spaces, and only applies Mon-Fri from 8-5.. Parking in the private lots is regulated by the private property owners.
Parking on Sundays by Glenn Church will only be permitted on one side of North decatur Road. It is a well consisdered accomodation for elderly church members who have difficulty walking. The church is actively encouraging other members and guests to use the nearby deck or other parking spaces.
Understand on the elderly, but most people using those spaces are not elderly.
Over the past few months the parking on North Decatur has been limited to one side of the street, and during that time the church has placed signs out on Sunday morning telling church members the street spaces are “reserved” for elderly members. I don’t know who is parking there, but the church is trying.
The sauce on Everybody’s Pizza is like Hunt’s ketchup. Yuck.
Then it’s a double vegetable! I heard on NPR that the pizza industry is advocating for pizza meeting the vegetable requirement of school lunch programs. Since the Reagan administration already deemed ketchup to be a vegetable, Everybody’s pizza must count double.
Hopefully this applies to the Glenn Memorial parking situation on Sundays as well. There’s a perfectly good parking deck right next door but for some reason they feel like they need to make a 4 lane road a 2 lane road every Sunday.
I think an hour seems pretty short if you want a leisuly lunch and then have an errand or two.
As much as I love pizza and try to give everyplace a chance, Everybody’s has failed me 3 times in a row
As someone who lives on Oxford Rd, this is welcome news as long as they actually follow through with enforcement. It’s been No Parking 8-5 on Oxford from Yogli Mogli to Eagle Row for the longest time with intermittent enforcement.
Visit…But only for 45 minutes. Then GET OUT.
Why the mean comments about Everybody’s Pizza? While it may or may not be anyone’s personal favorite, this article is about parking — not the perceived quality of the nearby restaurants. I think the ‘yuck’ comment is especially uncalled for and just plain mean.
Look at it again, and note the name of the author.
Pizza snobbery is the new must have accessory.
LOL! +1
That and haute dogs…
I can remember when there was nothing better than Everybody’s pizza. Been 25 years though.
back in the day, Everybody’s was good, but Jaggers was better
Why hate on Everybody’s?
I love their pizza! Large pizza with chicken and green peppers and an Everybody’s salad.
At least it doesn’t taste like the cardboard Fellinis serves.
But at $23 for a large 2-topping pizza and $15 for a salad, we can split a pizza and an entree at No. 246 for LESS money. The last time I indulged the woman by eating at Everybody’s I felt like I had just failed some sort of IQ test when I got the bill.
To be added to the DM list of potential band names: Indulge the Woman.
Much better than “$15 Salad” !
I used to be a manager at Everybody’s. It has changed in recent years due to a shift among the owners. It has not changed for the better.
Jagger’s was so good. Now our destination in the village is Rise ‘n’ Dine. Anyway, I need someone to explain how shorter parking will encourage visits to the area.
How does Jagger’s in Sage Hill stack up to the original?
i imagine parking is akin to seating at restaurants, where the goal is to “turnover” a table: get people served and out the door, so the next group of patrons can be served.
the more turnover you get in parking, theoretically, the more commerce you can host in the village. conversely, if people can never find a parking space due to low turnover, they’ll take their business elsewhere.
…and I’ve waited 45 minutes for a table at R’n'D… an hour is pretty tight!
I agree with Kurtz. Can someone explain WHY shorter parking will encourage me to go there?
Speculating–if you know you will have a place to park, you’re more likely to shop there?
Rick Julian’s comment above is correct. That is modern parking management theory.
If they’re having a problem with people taking the street spaces to go do business at Emory or somewhere eles nearby, I can see how putting at time limit would help the Emory Village businesses. However, an hour does seem tight. The two-hour time limit, similar to the parking in the middle of the square lots, seems like it would accomplish what they’d like while not discouraging people from coming.
Speaking of which, is the two-hour limit in the lot next to the courthouse a new thing? I thought those spaces were always metered with a two-hour max (similar to the ones in the lot on upper part of the square). I was there this morning grabbing a quick bite at Sammiches and Stuff and the parking enforcement people were there informing folks about the time limit when I came out to leave.
A two-hour limit seems MUCH more reasonable than one hour. Eating a meal and doing any shopping in the area (which is what we want, right?) will definitely take more than an hour.
agree. we just spent 2 hours at Mezcalito’s in the O.
alcohol was involved.
The last time I spent two hours at Mezcalito’s with alcohol involved, I had to take out a loan to pay for it. I hope they didn’t talk you into pitchers of margaritas!
“Emory’s parking decks cost students an arm – and perhaps a leg – each semester.” The same is true for faculty, with fewer parking spaces in decks over the last few years as the university provides more spaces for visitors to pay to visit campus. Parking on campus used to be around $365/yr. It’s now approx $700/yr. The pay cut came without protest.