Dear Editor: The most recent edition of your paper included an extremely informative and brutally frank discussion, aimed at new residents, concerning the abysmal parking situation here in downtown Jersey City. I enjoyed reading it and found it to be very accurate as to the situation. But you left out one thing. This thing may go towards explaining, in part, the deteriorating parking conditions in downtown Jersey City. Over the past couple of months there have been a spate of handicapped parking spaces “installed” all over the downtown area. They are becoming almost as common as street signs. Are we to believe that, all of a sudden, due to Jersey City’s astounding economic turnaround, we have inexplicably become the most attractive haven for the physically challenged? How else are we to explain the disproportionate number of handicapped spaces designated in the past three or four months? On 4th Street there are three in succession and one across the street from them. It’s laughable. While the city’s efforts to combat the illegal use of Jersey City as a cut-rate parking lot for commuters is to be applauded, the problem is being aggravated by the absurd number of what amount to private parking spaces being established all over the city. Who is in charge of this “operation” and what are the criteria for obtaining such a permit? Horrendous parking is the price Hoboken paid for its enviable success. It’s probably inevitable here too. We should try to deal with it by not doing things to worsen the situation. And by devoting our energies to prosecuting litterers, illegal dumpers, aggressive boom-boxers, and irresponsible dog-owners with at least as much zeal as we do those whose parking meters have just expired. In this way we will improve the quality of life for everybody and not just those few who know somebody in City Hall. Craig W. Davis