Parking Garage Solution!



Opening the parking garage up to just anybody is a HORRIBLE idea! The solution is this - hear me out and see if you all don't agree. No assigned parking spots within the parking garage. Only residents can get in to the parking garage because only residents have gate clickers.



There has been give or take very close to just over 50% of the parking spots unused each night for the past month. I live at the Legacy and I stay there only a few nights per week as a general rule. I'm out of town for business often, as are many of my neighbors that I've noticed.



Parking spot assignments should be done away with. If you are a resident, you give the office your tag number and they give you a clicker entitling you to park your car there.



While I'm gone overnight on business like I am 5 out of 7 nights each week, anybody could use my space. What does that matter to me'



Anyone living here could hit your car or open their doors into your paint job at anytime. I called to file a police report about my neigboring parker who has knicked my doors and chipped off paint, and the officer said that unless I saw the damage occur, that he could not file a report and cite my neighboring parker. So don't be fooled into thinking that there is safety in knowing that only residents are parked in the parking garage. Unfortunately, there is not.



Back to my very good parking solution. Since only half the parking garage is full on any given night, the other half of the tenants staying the night at the Legacy could each have 1 guest each. Each tenant should be issued 1 and only 1 guest parking permit.



Each tenant wishing to obtain a guest parking would have to consent to putting their telephone number on the parking permit that would hang from the guest's front mirror. If for any reason, the parking garage happened to fill up on any given floor, the guest parking spots could be bumped with a phone call by a tenant and the guest would have to move to another floor in the parking garage or outside. Yes, if you have a guest over, you'll have to answer your phone, but a guest getting occassionally bumped is a small price to pay for usually having parking for your single guest when a tenant should choose to have a guest over.



With this system, there is no possible way a tenant would ever have to park outside, and tenants could also have guests park inside the safety of the parking garage. Even though half the residents stay at the Legacy on any given night, it is very unlikely that all of that half would have a guest over all on the same night - so a guest parking bump isn't something that would have to happen too often if one does the math.



Any tenant wishing to have a guest over would have to make a run down to the elevator to let their guest in with the tenant's clicker, and then also place the tenant's 1 visitor parking permit on the visitor's front mirror. The small hassle for the tenant is a good compromise between the staffer's parking garage concerns and the tenant's desire to have safe guest parking!



What do you all think about this plan' Small hassle for the staff to get some permits made at Kinko's to be filled in, and a small hassle for the tenants to have to run down to meet guests staying overnight to let them in and place the guest parking permit on the guest's front mirror, BUT it is the best compromise that can be made in regard to the parking garage since it was not designed with guest spaces. I'd be happy with this system. Thoughts'



If this kind of a system was in place to allow us all to make good use of the parking that is available so that I could have a guest at least one night on the weekend, I would be willing to start recommending the Legacy Apartments to my friends again.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/15/2008
Only unauthorized vehicles have been towed at owners expense from the Legacy at Arts Quarter parking garage. Unfortunately, people seem to ignore the sign at the entry of the garage. It is posted Parking for Residents Only city ordinance 34115 will be towed at owners expense.
From: okiedi	Date: 02/20/2008
Wow... Then where do visitors of the residents park? I am relocating to OKC and am currently searching for an apartment. This is not the kind of housing amenity I am looking for.
From: Anonymous	Date: 03/18/2008
Your guests can park outside, if they don't mind homeless people and/or scary people. It's safe once you are in the "compound".
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/13/2008
Homeless people do get inside the "compound" when the gates are broken or when they decide to jump the fence. For the price we pay, it is unbelievable we don't have security petrolling the parking garage and perimeter. I suppose it is the staff who does not care if tenants get hurt in the place we as residents call home. Nobody who lives here feels like this place is home due to how we are treated by the management. We feel like intruders on the apartment's private property instead of residents with rights to freely associate and pursue private happiness. No wonder this place is nicknamed the ---- Apartment Compound. Sad that the illustration works well in this instance. We all feel like we got tricked into willingly entering a Communist setting of a highly over-controlled misery-filled concentration camp. Nobody who lives here is happy with their poor choice.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/17/2008
COME LIVE AT THE NEW LEGA-JAIL If the poster is happy with living in what is basically a jail, then the poster is an apartment staffer. I'm a law abiding citizen. The Oklahoma City Jail is a street over - a 5 minute walk away if that. I did not break any laws that would justify me being on lock-down like a jailbird. Visitors are restricted to them because their freedoms have been revoked. What right does this apartment complex have to rent us apartments to call home, and then to covertly go about restricting our access to having visitors? What guy here wants his girlfriend or mother on the street outside this place after dark with the homeless and crackheads who are rampant in this area?!! I don't want my girlfriend raped or worse!! Further, a series of gunshots went off somewhere very close to this apartment complex during this last month...April of 2008. I don't know if this was drug-related or what. There are too many homeless who are drug addicts in this area to count, so quite possible. I do know gunshots when I hear them. Thanks to the "rules" here that completely disregard tenant safety, I myself was outside the complex walking my girlfriend to her vehicle. If the office staff wants to continue to play games with the safety of those I care about, then game on. I don't get walked on in silence and will report everything to those who are still able to avoid this awful management with zero regard for tenant's or visitor's safety.
From: Anonymous	Date: 04/28/2008
I don't actually live in this complex, but I am looking at several similar situations throughout the OKC Downtown area so I feel my posting here is at least somewhat appropriate. To all those who are disgruntled by the parking situation, what do they think would be a good compromise? Do you advocate openning the parking lot to all comers? If so, then what will you, as residents, do when people working in or visiting downtown take over your garage entirely? Do you actually doubt that would happen? If a "free parking garage" opened up so close to the Myriad Gardens, The Ford Center, and everything else within a 6 block radius, how long would it be before everyone was using it? The only way to keep it free for the paying tenants is to post that all non-tenant vehicles will be towed (and then follow through with the threat). The office staff can not verify each and every strange car in the garage! A second option would be to hire a 24-hour support person who checks every car as it comes in against a list of acceptable cars (which the tenants would be responsible for updating). Are you willing to increase your rent by enough to cover such a position? Now, to those who are unhappy with the neighborhood: I understand your frustration, but really...what do you expect the office personnel to do about the crime in the area!? Is it their fault that gunshots can be heard? Are they to blame for the homeless problem? Of course not. I am assuming most of you visited the building prior to signing the lease. You have eyes, right? You saw the condition of the neighborhood then, right? And, to answer the obvious question that follows: no, I don't work for the apartment nor the management agency. No, I don't live in the building. No, this is not a paid endorsement. I am just trying to find a good place to live and have run into so many of these whiney little postings on so many aparment complexes where some tenant is complaining about things way beyond the scope of the managers or apartment personnel. There is only so much that the office managers can do...and the crime/drugs/homeless/proximity to the jail are not on the list.
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/13/2008
I am a tenant at Legacy, and I have to say that I am quite happy with the parking situation. I'm sorry if you are worried about your girlfriend's safety..but you were told you would have one parking spot upon move in when you signed the contract. Residents with registered cars with the apartment complex are known to the management, so if they do something wrong their car can be identified. Random visitors for the weekend that might possibly park in the garage would be unknown. If they hit someone's car, no one knows them anyway. I like having a private parking garage open only to residents. The whole "---- Apartment" thing above is just humorous. Really...you feel like you are in a concentration camp...with a huge pool, hot tub, 900 sq. foot apartment? Really.. God forbid you are asked to not let every idiot you know into the parking garage.
From: Anonymous	Date: 07/11/2008
Parking Garage Solution! Opening the parking garage up to just anybody is a HORRIBLE idea! The solution is this - hear me out and see if you all don't agree. No assigned parking spots within the parking garage. Only residents can get in to the parking garage because only residents have gate clickers. There has been give or take very close to just over 50% of the parking spots unused each night for the past month. I live at the Legacy and I stay there only a few nights per week as a general rule. I'm out of town for business often, as are many of my neighbors that I've noticed. Parking spot assignments should be done away with. If you are a resident, you give the office your tag number and they give you a clicker entitling you to park your car there. While I'm gone overnight on business like I am 5 out of 7 nights each week, anybody could use my space. What does that matter to me? Anyone living here could hit your car or open their doors into your paint job at anytime. I called to file a police report about my neigboring parker who has knicked my doors and chipped off paint, and the officer said that unless I saw the damage occur, that he could not file a report and cite my neighboring parker. So don't be fooled into thinking that there is safety in knowing that only residents are parked in the parking garage. Unfortunately, there is not. Back to my very good parking solution. Since only half the parking garage is full on any given night, the other half of the tenants staying the night at the Legacy could each have 1 guest each. Each tenant should be issued 1 and only 1 guest parking permit. Each tenant wishing to obtain a guest parking would have to consent to putting a telephone number on the parking permit that would hang from the guest's front mirror. If for any reason, the parking garage happened to fill up on any given floor, the guest parking spots could be bumped with a phone call by a tenant and the guest would have to move to another floor in the parking garage or outside. Yes, if you have a guest over, you'll have to answer your phone no matter what time, but a guest getting occassionally bumped is a small price to pay for usually having parking for your single guest when a tenant should choose to have a guest over. With this system, there is no possible way a tenant would ever have to park outside, and tenants could also have guests park inside the safety of the parking garage. Any tenant wishing to have a guest over would have to make a run down to the elevator to let their guest in with the tenant's clicker, and then also place the tenant's 1 visitor parking permit on the visitor's front mirror. The small hassle for the tenant is a good compromise between the staffer's parking garage concerns and the tenant's desire to have safe guest parking! What do you all think about this plan? Small hassle for the staff to get some permits made at Kinko's to be filled in, and a small hassle for the tenants to have to run down to meet guests staying overnight to let them in and place the guest parking permit on the guest's front mirror, but it is the best compromise that can be made in regard to the parking garage since it was not designed with guest spaces. I'd be happy with this system. Thoughts?
From: Anonymous	Date: 08/07/2008
The fact that guests cannot park in the garage is not a problem with me. Guests have a lesser respect for the tenant's property anyways because they dont live there. You were informed upon move-in that you only got 1 spot per tenant so you should not have expected anymore. There is ample guest parking on the street and I have yet to hear of anyone messing with any cars outside. Just because a person is homeless does not mean that they are a criminal and are going to try and steal something from your car. The REAL problem with the parking garage is that the place is a death trap coming around the corners where 2 cars dont fit and where you cant even see someone coming around the other corner. All the young people in the complex drive like maniacs around the corners and nearly cause an accident every time.

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