How do we write a code that asks everyone to give up a little to get a little? By making compromises that are neutral and still support the most dire of needs. Those needs are: for some people to be able to make supplemental income from a large personal investment in their privately owned homes, and for village life, and neighborhood and community character to be preserved for everyone who lives here.

If cars were water, Cold Spring’s business district and its side streets would be flooded during business hours almost every day of the week. Public parking in Cold Spring is a finite resource, like clean water. And like clean water, there is not enough of it for everyone to use as much of it as they want. We need a new way of thinking about village parking and a fair and rational way of sharing it.