AQMD’s Parking-Fee Proposal a Nightmare
Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992.
The proposal by the AQMD to force large numbers of businesses to impose parking charges seems to be another bureaucratic nightmare in the making. The goal is said to be to impose the true environmental costs of driving on the driver. Taxing parking (which is what this is, however they disguise it) does not do this. Such fees make no distinction between short and long commutes or users of clean alternative fuels, such as electricity or liquid propane.
Since emissions are strongly correlated with the amount of gasoline used, it would make more sense to derive a legitimate estimate of the environmental cost and impose a suitable per-gallon gasoline tax.
LEE AYDELOTTE
Huntington Beach
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