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Letter: Pay-by-App Parking Only
At the recent City Council retreat, Mayor Pro Tem Sue Kempf called for a parking master plan and study. I look forward to this important matter to be an agenda item and having a staff report. I am much impressed by the City’s improved parking app; it is much better than last year. Try it. It actually works, and under Settings, one can choose to “Save Bay Location Automatically”.
For the Caltrans sidewalk project from about Moss Street to about 7th Avenue, the city staff has already reported that newly marked parking spaces will not have parking meters. The City will install a sensor identifying each space. There will be pay stations, but importantly people will be able to pay just by the parking app using a smartphone.
PARKERSBURG Parkersburg City Council will consider a series of mid-fiscal-year budget revisions on Tuesday.
The Finance Committee will review the requests from the administration during a 6:30 p.m. session in the executive conference room on the second floor of the Municipal Building.
If referred by the committee, a resolution authorizing the revisions will be part of the agenda for the regular council meeting at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers.
City Finance Director Eric Jiles said many of the revisions are adjustments to conservative revenue estimates made in light of the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the original projection for business and occupation tax revenue was in excess of $8.3 million, he said. But it was revised downward by more than $1 million last year as city officials waited to see how efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus would impact revenue and what type of reimbursements they would receive from the federal government.
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The Top of the World neighborhood is being inundated with visitors to enjoy the views and recreation opportunities at Alta Laguna Park and the Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park. Most visitors are respectful, but some commit crimes and cause problems including trash, graffiti, alcohol use, smoking, and even public urination.
Increased police and fire protection is called for, but unfortunately visitors provide little or no tax revenue to the City. I think we ought to explore having meterless paid parking spaces in the Alta Laguna Park parking lot, and along a stretch of Alta Laguna Boulevard, and, perhaps elsewhere. Here’s my thinking: