On the Miller blog I made a suggestion:

I propose that we, the neighborhood, approach the City, and advocate for parking on the south side of the 2200 block of East Madison Street, to help stimulate economic activity in that block.

and provided some rationale for the idea.  Jim Mueller, in the comments section, provided a much better explanation of the reasoning behind the idea.

I invite you to pop over there and take the survey, which also allows you to suggest what stores should be on Madison. Central District News is sending people from their side of Madison over to the survey, and I wouldn’t want those of us from North of Madison to miss out!

OK, I’ll be kind to you: click here to go straight to the survey.