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Council to consider $100,000 design contract for Fifth & Forest parking-lot overhaul to support downtown investment

5056406 · June 2, 2025
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Summary

Staff asked council to authorize design work (up to $100,000) to reconstruct the Fifth & Forest downtown parking lot, address failing stormwater infrastructure, and add roughly 20% more public spaces to support adjacent private investment.

City staff asked the council to authorize an engineering design contract of up to $100,000 to redesign and reconstruct the Fifth and Forest parking lot, an under-maintained municipal lot adjacent to several privately owned downtown buildings.

Staff said the lot has decades of deferred maintenance, a failing stormwater system and a complicated ownership…

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