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Businesses want help with parking problem
A group of business owners in Sterling has written a letter to Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) seeking help with the parking situation in their office complex.
The employees of the 12 office units in the East Glenn business park have a parking lot with about 60 spaces, and they used to park freely on nearby Carpenter Drive and Glenn Drive.
But in May, those streets were turned into four-lane roads, eliminating all street parking.
Since then, the employees in the office park have been struggling to find spaces for their cars and work vehicles.
Now, they've sent a petition to Delgaudio pleading for his help.
"Our small business center is being strangled with the loss of parking along Glenn Drive and Carpenter Drive," the letter said. "Please provide us with limited parking along Glenn and Carpenter Drive along our property lines."
The streets were re-lined by the Virginia Department of Transportation in an effort to prevent the illegal parking of commercial vehicles that were being abandoned in the area, Delgaudio said.
He described the area as a "truck cemetery" and said re-lining the streets was the easiest and cheapest solution to that problem.
But since then, business owners said, the problem has just been shifted over to them.
Sometimes customers have nowhere to park and some employees are even parking in the grass, they said.
David Gunter, owner of Elkins Painting and Wallcovering, is spearheading the effort to get some help with the parking situation.
He and the six other business owners who signed the letter are hoping their petition will help.
"We agree that trucks and trailers should not be parked in these areas," the letter said. "We are now suffering partly from the inability of our neighboring institutional landlord to control their own tenant activity."
Contact the reporter at ecoe@timespapers.com
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