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Sandpoint officials outline downtown parking redesign and paid-parking plan
Summary
City staff presented a redesigned Downtown Parking Lot layout and a draft parking management plan that would add paid off‑street parking and digital passes to shift long‑term parkers to on‑street spaces and recover maintenance costs.
City of Sandpoint staff and the Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency on Feb. 4 presented a redesigned downtown parking‑lot plan and described a broader parking‑management proposal that would reintroduce paid off‑street parking and digital passes for frequent users.
The presentation included a new lot layout that staff said would increase the number of full‑size stalls, convert drive aisles to one‑way circulation to meet parking‑code width requirements and remove some existing landscape islands to gain efficiency. Brandon Stylance, an engineer on the project, told the board that if the two existing entrances are kept “we would have to convert them to 1 way, you know, 1 way in, 1 way out.”
Why it matters: City staff say the current pattern — free off‑street stalls downtown and largely free on‑street spaces — produces a mismatch between customers who need short visits and long‑term parkers who occupy off‑street lots. Jason Welker,…
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