A resident of Chapel Hill got tired of trying to find a parking space at the library while eight prime spots right up front sat empty, reserved for “green” vehicles only. Now town manger Roger Stancil has had to acknowledge the silliness of the whole thing and is having the reserved signs removed. Here’s what Janet Johnston had to say about it.
Johnston was more pointed in a second email message accusing the town of elitism and of engaging in social engineering.
“Perhaps the committee members [who came up with the idea] could spend some time in the parking lot observing the dismal results of their decision,” Johnston said. “If they did, they would see the people who really need these spaces limping past them so that they can be used by the eco-conscious young with the money to buy a technologically sophisticated new car.”
