Reader: LoHi is becoming San Francisco or New York, with great restaurants and no parking

We live in Riverfront, and we walk everywhere - Spuntino on 32nd is our new fav.

This would not be a story in NYC or San Fran. People (residents and visitors) walk there & they don't complain. Laura knew when she signed the lease that she would have to "street" park. It's part of living in that area of town. I wonder if the tow fee was cheaper than the airport parking for 10 days? hmmmm...

If she wants to move, someone else will move right in with now complaints. Ridiculous!

I live out in the 'burbs, just on the north side of 470 near Chatfield. I use light rail, get off at Union Station and, gasp, walk a few blocks to get to LoHi. Imagine that, walk. It's not that tough to do people.

I think the point is that Denver is not San Francisco or New York where you can stumble out of your apartment and have 50 restaurants within three blocks.  It is a good five miles from my place in Wash Park to the heart of LoHi.  I'm going to walk it?  No way.  You have to drive and look for parking, cab it (not cheap), or take a bus (yeah, right - good luck with that).  The point is that if the city really wants these urban centric neighborhoods they have to consider parking both for visitors and existing residents and they aren't doing it.

I wonder what long-time residents of these North Denver neighborhoods think about the parking situation.  I feel bad for them - having to put up with a bunch of yuppies complaining about being inconvenienced before they eat some "tapas" or whatever these restaurants are dishing up.  While you are having to walk a couple blocks to get to your bottomless mimosas, think about the displacement the residents of this neighborhood have to deal with.    

The horror. Surely everyone in New York and San Francisco would give up their great dining scenes to have more convenient parking.

I used to live in the Bay Area, and unless something has changed drastically, San Francisco has plenty of parking garages that I used to use regularly. I don't mind paying for a parking spot in a city - space is at a premium, and commands a commensurate price.

It becomes part of the cost of an evening out - and if it means my budget doesn't stretch to allow me to eat at downtown/LoHi/etc. restaurants as often as I would like, well, there are are plenty of folks who can walk there to make up the slack, right?

Lemme get this straight - Laura is mad and wants to move out of the neighborhood because she parked in a spot for FOUR DAYS while she was out of town - that has explicit signage describing it as use for restaurant customers only.  Space that those business pay for - but she wants to use as her own private free parking?

You should have been fined double, sweetheart. 

It's called urban living, get used to it.  The alternative is Wal-Marts and strip malls. Take your pick.

My god, cry more newbs. Seriously ppl its called walking + public transportation + cabs. Try it.

Oh for goodness' sake, people can't walk a couple of blocks to their car? LoHi is a far cry from NYC or San Francisco, where there isn't any parking for miles. Whenever I've had to park for some LoHi restaurant, the worst case scenario is having to park maybe three blocks away at most. Even in the winter this is not some great hassle. Have groceries? Drop them off while your hazards are on and then go park the car. People in the inner neighborhoods around Boston have been doing this forever. Denver has TOO MUCH parking in general. Vast parking lots downtown and in the suburbs. LoHi is awesome because its dense. Demanding minimum parking amounts will ruin that.