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Zions center is approved by Planning Commission

Great, more insufficient parking in Provo. Allowing to few permits is the reason the area just east of here, and south of BYU is awful for parking.

When will Provo learn?

Parking can be a huge factor in the success or failure of a business and there are many projects around the valley that will attest to this. The developers are not concerned and will do everything to cut costs because once they are done with a project they disappear and wash their hands of it. The only time developers are liable is in the preplanning and licensing phase. There are zoning laws for a reason and to waiver on them usually means trouble after the fact that the tax payers end up correcting. These biased in house studies by developers have all proven to be falsified and full of errors so should be given no considerations. The cities should stand by the zoneing laws with full enforcement of them. Why doom a project before it is even built and the developers is off in Hawaii celebrating his scamming the city councils and building occupants? Cities should profit on the front end and not be a white elephant on the back end after all the damage is done. Present and future uses of a building should be a part of zoning permits. Why limit possible future uses of a building?

In a development like this the developer is also the owner of the building, so they will not be off in Hawaii celebrating any kind of scam. This will also be the second project in downtown Provo along with two other downtown projects completed in other cities and no scam has taken place there either.

I can hardly wait to go in the empty upper floors so I can look into the empty floors over at the Wells Fargo building. Maybe they can rent these buildings out for games of hide and seek!