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Council to hear hot debate over parking near BYU

When I was a student I always felt that BYU should leave Provo for a place where the local community was happy to have a major university in town to boost its economy. Provo acts like BYU students are a nuisance. The school has too many students for their current campus. Maybe it is time to move to a city that will be more friendly to students.

Provo is a college town. If you don't want to be surrounded by students/young people, why buy a home within a mile of a large university?

Now what we need here is an act of selective
protest... WHAT IF, a significant number
of BYU students REFUSED to patronize ANY
Provo business, from gas stations, to food
to clothing, etc.?
Buy your "stuff" in Springville, Orem, Lindon,
ANYWHERE but Provo.
Then, perhaps, the city "fathers" would find
a more compatible manner to provide parking
for their major source of income...

Here's a question for those of you who think Provo hates students: What SHOULD the council do?

You have a choice between make new rules, leave it as is, or remove the rules that are there. Why not make a sensible suggestion and back it up with reasoned arguments? I'm looking for a proposal that works the best for the majority of residents in the area.

The council is obviously willing to listen - it already did listen to several sensible suggestions.

Not that I am a U grad and am happy to see trouble for you BYU guys (that will come Saturday), but the same problem existed around the U several years ago. Salt Lake City Basically did the same thing. They did have us pay, they simply banned us from parking in residential neighborhoods around the perimeter of the school and put in parking meters around the businesses.

It happened so long ago, that most students today think it was always that way. Salt Lake could not think of another solution. We all complained and threatened to no avail. Bottom line, your children won't know the difference. It is painful.