after careful consideration of the comments from you, my fellow urban planet peers, I have revised my stance on the whole valet thing. here is my analysis of why i didn't like valet:
1. It always seems to cause traffic snarls after tiger games (the tiger game part of that sentence is the key)
2. My main offender that I had in mind is Bleu. All others seem to do it right. Bleu has taken up the practice of parking car on the sidewalk in front of the broderick. If this is the worst of the problem, all you have to do is ticket the one offending establishment.
As I look back at my analysis, what is really the problem with Valet? Answer, it screws up traffic flow, especially after ballgames. Well, what does that do then? What I see is that this could have a way to basically start encouraging people to do one of two things:
a. hang out later after tiger games until traffic dies down (a good thing)
b. park farther away from the stadium to avoid traffic and walk (a good thing)
And what are the real effects of this awful valet, Mr. Ezord?
Well...
1. it makes the city look vibrant with high end establishments that offer valet
2. it slows traffic down
so, rather than deleting my previous post, I am changing my opinion. I was thinking too much on a traffic basis... forgive me, I'm just a sheltered little engineer.