parking misinformation by wmfd

I was in a meeting yesterday sponsored by Main Street Mansfield about downtown parking. The mayor and other administration were there, and downtown stakeholders...building owner reps, retailers, etc. A lot of things were discussed and a future meeting scheduled. WMFD put out a story last night showing video from the County Commissioners meeting where Gary Utt was discussing the previous parking meeting. By that point the information was second or third hand, and the resulting story garbled and twisted it further, to the point of talking as if the Commissioners were in charge of recalibrating meters, that the 20 year reduction in number of parking meters from 1100 to 400 was a reduction in parking spaces (headlined the story) etc. etc. They pulled the story from their website immediately this morning when contacted by Main Street, the sponsors of the actual meeting, and Anne Miller is going to meet with Burton Sahl to get it straightened out. Meanwhile if you saw the story, everything in it was bogus.