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Delray DDA backs changes to surface‑lot hours, recommends free garages and summer rate study
Summary
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority voted May 19 to recommend changing Railroad Lot hours to free customer parking from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and three‑hour metered enforcement in evenings, to promote free use of municipal garages, and to ask the city to study a reduced summer parking rate.
The Downtown Development Authority on May 19 voted to forward a set of parking recommendations aimed at increasing daytime turnover and encouraging patrons to use garages instead of surface lots.
Key decisions: The board recommended the Railroad Lot be free from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to encourage daytime shopper/customer parking, then converted to three‑hour metered parking from 4 p.m. until 2 a.m.; it directed that the Gladiola Lot remain as currently configured for the near term and be reviewed again in two months; and it asked city staff to explore a reduced summer parking rate for off‑street parking (not including Atlantic…
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