• Welcome to AppraisersForum.com, the premier online  community for the discussion of real estate appraisal. Register a free account to be able to post and unlock additional forums and features.

ParkMobile in a residential street small town?

lindamontco123

Freshman Member
Joined
Mar 8, 2025
Professional Status
General Public
State
Pennsylvania
My town is strongly considering ParkMobile with signs/ meter app for our residential street with only" on street " parking...in small town in PA. They are considering for either just one side or both sides of our street as we are few blocks from town center with some shopping and restaurants. THIS, even though there is adequate parking already in town but seems businesses are saying more, more, more.
We have 3 hours free parking now on the one side of our street for anyone , along with our permit parking for residents who can park both sides any time. (Of course, we won't have to pay meter/ ParkMobile.)
Residents/ we are strongly opposed to ParkMobile on the street.....feel no reason and will hurt overall aesthetics of street, prop values, the junky PM signs, we will lose parking spaces( as ParkMobile will direct ppl to park on our street via the app), etc.
Question....
What is Appraiser's point of view re buyer appeal for our homes with this parking metering system, the signs, the availability / less of parking spaces and what we see as "commercialization" of our street?

Appeal to buyers?
Any decrease in values?
 
Ok but it would deter me seeing ParkMobile in front of house and esp if sign is there
Not a big city, talking about...small town and may have to park distance away.
Well I guess no impact to some perspective buyers but I thought adequate parking is important.
THanks
 
Having a park mobile sign is better than having meters all up and down the sidewalk.

Parkmobile is great. Same app for parking in multiple cities. It was a pain when those apps first came out and it was a different app in every city. Now just one app for all cities.
 
It won't bring more people to your street just because there is park mobile. If it is not town wide, I would think that it is more likely that the nearby streets without pay parking but still reasonable walking to the commercial area is where everybody is going to try to park.
 
At Berkeley near the campus, there are ParkMobile on streets near commercial buildings. Further away from commercial zones, there are fewer ParkMobiles and more of 1-2 hour street parking or unlimited for permitted residents living nearby. If your residential street has ParkMobiles, your home is already on "commercialized" street having nearby commercial influence.
 
Find a Real Estate Appraiser - Enter Zip Code

Copyright © 2000-, AppraisersForum.com, All Rights Reserved
AppraisersForum.com is proudly hosted by the folks at
AppraiserSites.com
Back
Top