Two Downtown Parking Meetings This Month (12. September 2007, 09:06 by Erik) ~ Progress is being made ...

The state of parking and the parking standards keeps coming up in discussions about planning the future of downtown. City Hall recognized these concerns and began holding a series of parking meetings way back in February.

City Manager Eric Anderson came back with some initial answers in April. Then last month, the City Manager took a vision package to a City Council study session.

Now the City is taking this package back to the public to get feedback and discuss. After reviewing the City’s downtown parking update, the idea of a multimodal, city-wide transporation strategy sounds like a great place to start (see Recommendation #1). There are other ideas familar to our readers like Recommendation #9: Eliminate parking minimums in zoning requirements.

What do you think? Is this what the future of parking looks like in
downtown? Tell the City. Tell us.

Meeting Information:

2007 Downtown Parking Meetings, Round 3

Foss Waterway Issues
Thursday (tomorrow), September 13, 5:30-7:00 pm
Museum of Glass

UWT Area Issues
Thursday, September 20, 5:30-7:00 pm
GWP 320 – Tacoma Room (above the UWT Bookstore)