I must say that the Market Square Garage has been a boon to downtown by providing affordable, safe & convenient parking. Recently, all of the Wall Ave. metered parking west of the west side of Market Square has been converted to commercial loading / unloading. I'm not certain that this is needed but then again, I don't own a Market Square business; however, there seems in mind to exist a need for convenient parking for "customer loading". When picking up small gift or a bite to eat, the no more than $1 parking in the aforementioned garage is ideal but folks attempting to load larger, heavier items have been ticketed for parking violations on Wall & Union which of course isn't very friendly when we're trying to attract retail customers to Market Square and Gay St.

I would suggest that free, 15 minute meters such as those in front of the Post Office Bldg on Main be installed on Wall east of the east side of Market Square. Push the button and you have 15 minutes free to grab your item. This would provide a great convenience to those loading a chair or end table from Bliss Home, Abode or a case of wine from the wonderful new wine store on Gay.

Parking is very important to retail and this idea would seem to fill a current void. Any reason not to do this?