There are some powerful people in this community who feel that the way to "improve" downtown is to eliminate parking spaces and worst of all, force our shoppers to parallel park! The merchants of downtown Sarasota are 100% against this. We need the public's help, you, our customers, to fight against this misguided attempt at "improvement." Please take a minute to sign our petition, which we will be forwarding on to our city's leaders on January 2, 2012.