Visions of community

ENAR

E   You say that the ABC Mall in Verdun is seeking to be a community mall, starting with the priority hiring of local staff who can walk to work. You are well aware of the challenges that exist in the neighborhood relating to traffic congestion and parking. What is your recipe for organizing parking and charging parking fees in the community mall? The problem is that you see a lot of abuse when [parking is offered] free of charge. The question is: how much [in terms of an hourly or daily fee] is enough to discourage abuse, and how much is low enough [for people to not be discouraged from using the facility]. This is a huge discussion, almost [like] a Byzantine discussion on the gender of angels. The legend says that while the Ottomans were besieging [Constantinople] the people there were talking about the gender of the angels.