Parking Restrictions At One Loudoun (deal, park, limit)

[venture2000]

Originally Posted by CLfan1977

While I don’t live in NoVA, I visit family there often. Before I needed a handicap car tag, I never noticed if a location had a reasonable number of parking spots. Now that I have a terrible back problem along with asthma and can’t walk very far, it’s apparent how inconsistent businesses and cities are in providing these parking spots.

Sometimes a large building will have just a couple spots, often some distance from the entrance. In the town I live near, the Main Street has just one handicap spot for the busiest block (both sides of the street). The Senior Center has only 4 handicap spaces.

To the OP, can your mom get a hang tag that can be used when you drive her? Is she able to be dropped off to wait while you park? Obviously that works best if a bench is provided for her to sit down. The time limits certainly don’t work if you’re seeing a movie or having a meal.

She does have a hang tag and that was what we did the last time she saw a movie there with me. That day I ended up parking in one of the garages because all the lots were filled. I didn't like having to walk back to the theater.

This evening I returned to see a movie (Toy Story 4) at the Alamo Drafthouse (I so love their dessert menu) and I asked my server what was going on with the parking restrictions. He said that One Loudoun is enforcing them and he and his fellow employees hate it is as well, but are powerless to do anything about it.

I warned him that those that made that decision had best be wary not to irk their patrons. He agreed. How much? When I got the check I discovered that I had received a discount! He also stated that they are going to build a third parking garage on the property as well. Interesting.

Anyway, despite my discounted dessert, I think I will head to the Cobb Cinemas for the foreseeable future and check out their dessert menu there.

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by venture2000

She does have a hang tag and that was what we did the last time she saw a movie there with me. That day I ended up parking in one of the garages because all the lots were filled. I didn't like having to walk back to the theater.

This evening I returned to see a movie (Toy Story 4) at the Alamo Drafthouse (I so love their dessert menu) and I asked my server what was going on with the parking restrictions. He said that One Loudoun is enforcing them and he and his fellow employees hate it is as well, but are powerless to do anything about it.

I warned him that those that made that decision had best be wary not to irk their patrons. He agreed. How much? When I got the check I discovered that I had received a discount! He also stated that they are going to build a third parking garage on the property as well. Interesting.

Anyway, despite my discounted dessert, I think I will head to the Cobb Cinemas for the foreseeable future and check out their dessert menu there.

Dear lord, you act like the garage is miles away. It is a block. And I have never found one of the 15 parking spots at Cobb closer than their garage are ever free. I, too, have noticed the closest spots at OneLoudoun are short term. I just thought, "ok", and moved on with my life.

[dkf747]

Originally Posted by spencgr

Dear lord, you act like the garage is miles away. It is a block. And I have never found one of the 15 parking spots at Cobb closer than their garage are ever free. I, too, have noticed the closest spots at OneLoudoun are short term. I just thought, "ok", and moved on with my life.

You have described exactly how it can feel when using a wheelchair to go that one block. It can be like it's miles away.

(before someone says it - it's not that way for every wheelchair user.)

[brooklynborndad]

Originally Posted by dkf747

You have described exactly how it can feel when using a wheelchair to go that one block. It can be like it's miles away.

(before someone says it - it's not that way for every wheelchair user.)

Fine, ask for more handicapped spots (though OP was in a position to drop off her mother and then walk - it was the walking distance she complained about, not the distance her mother would go in a wheel chair by herself) But there are only going to be so many close spots whatever you do.

[dkf747]

Originally Posted by brooklynborndad

Fine, ask for more handicapped spots (though OP was in a position to drop off her mother and then walk - it was the walking distance she complained about, not the distance her mother would go in a wheel chair by herself) But there are only going to be so many close spots whatever you do.

I see. Althouhgh it is annoying to the mother to have to sit there and wait while everyone walks by.


I was there today and saw no restrictions by the Trader Joes. Does the new parking policy only apply to a certain part of One Loudoun?

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by dkf747

I see. Althouhgh it is annoying to the mother to have to sit there and wait while everyone walks by.

Yes, we should all dream of lives without any annoyances.

If I started a thread for everytime I am annoyed, I'd have enough thread to make coats for an army.

[dkf747]

Originally Posted by spencgr

Yes, we should all dream of lives without any annoyances.

If I started a thread for everytime I am annoyed, I'd have enough thread to make coats for an army.

I can tell you have no idea what it's like. I hope it never happens to you though.

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by dkf747

I can tell you have no idea what it's like. I hope it never happens to you though.

ok, let's be clear here. This thread is NOT about parking for disabled people; it is about the annoyance of someone who can't park right in front of the theater.

Originally Posted by venture2000

. I didn't like having to walk back to the theater.

Originally Posted by venture2000

but it is still an annoyance that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention..

Originally Posted by venture2000

instead of having the convenience of parking where they want.

But, I want to clarify that I certainly do know what it is like to deal with limited mobility and trying to find parking. I drove my grandfather around for 5 years as his mobility progressively declined (hobbling on a cane all the way to a wheelchair). And the best and easiest, always, was to drop him off at the entrance and go park myself. And I NEVER used the hangtag when I did this, as the person with the mobility issues was already inside.

[brooklynborndad]

Originally Posted by dkf747

I can tell you have no idea what it's like. I hope it never happens to you though.

It can indeed be annoying to have to wait for someone after being dropped off.

It can also be annoying to not be able to find a short term spot, because they are taken up by long term parkers who don't want to walk from a free garage.

It can be annoying to be stuck in traffic.

It can be annoying to wait 30 minutes for a bus.

It can be annoying to try riding a bike somewhere, and find there is no safe route - only taking the lane on a 45mph road with no bike lane, no side trail not even a rideable shoulder or halfway rideable sidewalk.

We all have to put up with annoyances.

[sonnymarkjiz]

I was there last week, and I parked in the garage just cause it was there. Didn't really bother me or my experience there, though, as One Loudoun isn't very big to begin with. It's 1/4 the size of RTC. I actually think the location of One Loudoun is in the most random place than anything else.