What's in the Master Parking Plan?
You can read the draft Master Parking Plan here. In the meantime, here are some of the recommendations from the report so you can come prepared to your stakeholder work session.
Residential Areas:
1-Reduce the street sweeping window and start at 9 am after people leave for work.
2-In permit parking areas, limit the number of permits to 3 per residence, or 2 per residence if off-street parking is available. Currently, there are 2,000 residential permit spaces in the Borough, but there are more than twice as many permits issued (2,867 residential permits, 2,302 guest permits).
3-Increase the annual cost of a residential permit from $8 to $15/year for cars and $30/year for oversized vehicles.
4-Offer only single-day guest parking permits. Currently, the Borough issues 5-day guest permits, allowing people to park a car and move it every 4th day, resulting in a permit that never expires.
University Area:
1-Eliminate Area C permit parking near the University and install meters. Currently, Area C permit parking is priced much lower than WCU commuter parking and is therefore heavily used.
In-Town Parking:
1-Incentivize parking in garages by:
(a) Increasing parking rates in high-demand metered spaces from $1.50/hour to $2/hour, and
(b) Enforcing on-street meters Saturday mornings from 8 am to noon.
