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Planning department outlines modest 2026 budget; parking study and Thompson House maintenance highlighted
Summary
The planning department presented a compact 2026 budget that emphasizes a parking study (phase 1), historic design-guidelines work and continued maintenance of Thompson House; staff noted an unfilled position that may be held as contract hours depending on workload and space availability.
The Town of Carbondale planning department presented a streamlined 2026 budget to trustees that prioritizes a scoping and planning phase for a parking study, design-guidelines work for Old Town residential areas, and maintenance of the Thompson House.
Jared, the planning presenter, described multiple ways the town could approach a parking study: a “quick and dirty” update to parking ratios based on industry norms, or a two‑phase process that first gathers community goals about parking and then conducts technical parking‑use analysis to derive locally appropriate ratios. “The initial…
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