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Downtown retailers press committee for parking relief after daytime-hours enforcement; committee proposes flexible 9-hour window
Summary
Retail business owners told the Parking Committee that a newly enforced 6 p.m. daytime cutoff is increasing costs and operational difficulty for employees. The committee proposed a potential flexible nine-hour window for business accounts and agreed to work with Colonial Parking to draft options and verify lease entitlements for tenants.
Retail and manufacturing tenants in the town center urged the Parking Committee to consider exemptions or flexible options after enforcement of the daytime parking cutoff moved to 6 p.m.
Chris Curtin, owner of Cloud Chocolate, told the committee he has leased space in the borough for 20 years and said the 6 p.m. cutoff "is costing me over $20 because my staff is over 06:00." Curtin described production schedules that extend past 6 p.m., said employees typically leave around…
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