Farmington to present details of downtown parking study on Monday

Thursday, September 11, 2008 | Source: metromode
Right now there are 2,370 parking spots in downtown Farmington. City officials, however, hope to squeeze out a few more in their new long-term parking study.

City officials will present the details of the study and how they hope to use it at 6 p.m. Monday in Farmington's City Hall. That means they will show how many spots the city has, make suggestions on how to better manage those parking spaces and discuss how to create more spots in the future.

One of the city's main goals is to search for ways to reconfigure existing parking lots to increase occupancy and ease of access.

"If you combine three lots next to each other can we gain any spots by combining them?" says Annette Knowles, executive director of the Farmington Downtown Development Authority.

The city is also looking at creating parking decks as a long-term solution. Knowles says that if downtown is built out as the master plan calls for in the coming years, the city will need to double the number of parking spaces to service that growth.

Source: Annette Knowles, executive director of the Farmington Downtown Development Authority
Writer: Jon Zemke
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