March DPI Membership Gathering: Downtown Parking

DPI Membership Gathering: Downtown Parking

Thursday, March 14
8:30 – 10:00 am
City Hall, Council Chambers (2nd floor)
Open to Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. members and their employees

The City Departments of Public Services and Community Development will be leading this meeting.

Agenda:

1. Updates from the City on parking

Electric Car Charging Stations
Columbus St Parking Garage Update
Metered parking update

2. Breakout session with 3 groups

Group 1 – Downtown Parking Problems
How well the parking meters are working?
What problems are you hearing about?

Group 2 – Downtown Parking Changes
What current meters should be changed/eliminated?
Should we move on to other streets and/or municipal lots?
Should we move forward with adding metered parking on the new surface lot at Columbus?

Group 3 – Education/Marketing
Any marketing ideas for parking meters?
Any parking signage improvements for metered parking?
Any wayfinding signage improvements?

3. Report back from each group and conclusion

RSVP by March 12 by emailing Cheryl at cmirer@downtownpittsfield.com.

This is to be a constructive, respectful meeting of all of us working together to define issues and find solutions.