Where, exactly, are we supposed to park?

In response to the article “Parking time limits being set” in the Waterbury Record Nov. 19, I ask:

As a full-time employee of a business on Stowe Street, where do our town fathers suggest I park, now that they are going to establish a two-hour parking limit in the lot near Stowe Street Café?

I work with approximately a dozen other full-time employees who all use the parking lots off Stowe Street, and now those spaces will essentially be gone to us. Where do you propose we park? In the lot behind The Blue Stone? Where do you suggest those employees park? Do you suggest the lot near Federated Auto Parts or behind Perkins-Parker? And where do you suggest those employees park?

It has been suggested I park in the new “public” lot near the train station and walk into work. As one who often arrives to work early in the morning and leaves after the sunset, this does not sit well with me, especially during the winter months, as there is no lighting along the sidewalk.

Who conducted this parking study? Who was interviewed? I suspect only a few business owners were talked to about the parking situation/problem. I know I, as a regular user of the parking lot, was not consulted, nor were my fellow co-workers.

Here’s a suggestion: Since parking is at a premium in the village of Waterbury and no one can agree on what to do with the old municipal building at 51 S. Main St., how about our town fathers not sell the property, but instead tear down the building, pave over the land, and create a public parking lot”

Kia Winchell Commo

Waterbury