Changing to Pay-&-Display parking meters-Appearance Issues
Many issues were considered when the City of Houston wanted to change parking meters. The change was to be from a mixture of single/dual space meters on a single post along with modern multi-space meters–recently added in the Cotswold area of downtown–to the more sophisticated solar-powered, micro-processor controlled, wifi networked, parking meter. This first post about our conversion relates how we mitigated the issue of the meter’s high-tech appearance in front of a historic structure. I will offer other posts about the transition as you may be surprised how many hot points can be touched by a parking meter debate. (more…)