City Manager Carol Eberhardt is organizing a meeting of the entire Clarkston commercial district about downtown parking, at the request of Mayor Joe Luginski.
The meeting will include discussion about businesses contributing to the $8,350 cost of a parking study by city engineering firm Carlisle Wortman Associates, Eberhardt said at the Sept. 14 City Council meeting.
“We don’t have an extra $8,350 it in the budget to pay for that,” she said.
The Clarkston Retailers Group met in August to discuss parking, but that represents a small part of the commercial district, Eberhardt said.
Council member Sharron Catallo said they should first get a free parking study from the Traffic Improvement Association, which the city joined last month. Membership dues in the TIA are $300.
Carlisle Wortman’s proposal for a Downtown Parking Management Plan would include inventory of land uses, building floor areas, on- and off-street parking, and surveys during peak and non-peak times, then development of a management plan.
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