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Originally Posted by NJblue

If you blow off the concept of a permit system with a response to the effect that the parking lots are filled with rec center users, it would seem to infer that you are claiming that all lots are always filled. Otherwise, why wouldn't a permit system work? If activities planned for a rec center would indicate that every parking slot is going to be filled on a a particular day, no permit would be issued for that particular lot.

The only times I have seen any rec center parking lot filled to capacity is when there is a major activity like a craft fair or art show. All other times there are always sufficient parking spots to handle the 15-25 or so that would be needed for a club going on a bus trip. If the conditions of the permit required car pooling you could even cut that down to 10-12 parking slots. Likewise, except for special events, you can shoot a canon in some of the remote sections of the large lots by the squares with no worry of hitting a car. Certainly the recreation department could find sufficient parking spots to help support the Villages clubs that may want to go on a bus trip if they really wanted to be an advocate for our best interest.

The reason that the seating at the squares is an irrelevant topic is that, unlike seat hogs who just take over a group of seats against stated policy, those who go on bus trips would be parking in spaces that have been determined by the Recreation department to be spare (otherwise, no permit would have been issued for that particular rec center.) They would not just be bullying their way into a parking lot as you inferred.

There is no way we can discuss this issue. You will not stick to what I say, but what you think I say. "blow off the concept of a permit system" "bullying their way into a parking lot as you inferred" In no post did I ever state either thing. Good luck Done.