KC Current Parking Beef Blame Game Starts Amid Tax Fight Crisis

Our main takeaway . . .

PORT KC CREATED A HOT MESS AND NOW THEY WANT TO BLAME SOME PARKING DUDE POLITICAL DONOR TO MAYOR Q RATHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGE PLANNING FAIL!!!

Seriously . . . 

It has become a tired & lame trick to use the parking dude as a local foil which is fine . . . We don't care about him. 

However . . .

Casting blame against big money interests overlooks a simple fact . . . 

Port KC and local politicos created a parking crisis and still haven't devised a plan to fix it. AND local taxpayers are picking up a big chuck of these deal to benefit PRIVATE corporate interests including lady soccer team owners.

Of course . . . 

Our "progressive" leaders are using a prog blog to bolster an environmentalist eco-devo message . . .

Parking spaces are in short supply by design — to encourage people to stick around after games and to rely on public transit.

A proposal making its way through City Hall would do just that. The Parking Co. of America, or PCA, wants three kinds of public subsidies to build a 1,500-spot parking garage next to the stadium, near where the temporary parking currently sits.

The KC Current says that the setup with temporary lots is working for now while the streetcar extension and other riverfront developments are under construction.

But the Port Authority of Kansas City, which oversees the riverfront, still faces complaints about a parking shortage.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

A Kansas City Council donor wants tax money to build KC Current stadium parking

Neighborhood planners in the Berkley Riverfront envision a walkable entertainment district around the stadium. But amid complaints about parking, a new proposal would use tax dollars to build a five-story garage for the KC Current stadium.