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West Chester Chamber asks committee to raise special-event parking fee for Christmas parade
Summary
The West Chester Chamber of Commerce asked the borough parking committee to consider a $20 special-event parking fee and expanded lot participation to help offset the chamber’s parade costs and preserve the annual event.
Katie Walker, executive director of the West Chester Chamber of Commerce, asked the West Chester Parking Committee on May 13 to consider increasing the special-event parking fee for the borough-managed garages from $10 to $20 for the night of the Christmas parade and to extend the fee to surface (flat) lots for that event.
Walker said the parade is “a beloved tradition in West Chester” that draws “tens of thousands of spectators” and that public-safety and operational costs make the event expensive for the Chamber to run. She said the Chamber’s final invoice from the borough last year was just over $17,000 and that the parking revenue applied to that bill amounted to roughly…
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