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District 5 town hall: parking, dog parks, pickleball and more — residents weigh trade-offs
Summary
Residents at Councilor Rachel Whipple’s town hall discussed Joaquin parking issues and permit-history, Slate Canyon overnight-parking restrictions, demand for a dog park and pickleball courts, Memorial Park redesign, and loosening rules for food trucks or pop-up markets downtown.
A range of neighborhood-amenity topics dominated parts of the District 5 town hall, with residents and Councilor Rachel Whipple trading ideas on parking, parks and street vendors.
On parking, Whipple noted a prior Joaquin parking study and former councilor Dave Harding’s work on a parking-permit framework; the study observed available nighttime on-street spaces and underused apartment-lot capacity, raising the question whether drivers walking…
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