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Council directs staff to return with options to reduce neighborhood disruption from construction parking
Summary
After repeated public complaints about construction crews taking neighborhood parking and blocking access, the council directed staff to compile options for contractor parking plans and notice to residents.
Council members used a workshop discussion on January 28 to press staff for stronger, clearer rules and better neighborhood notice when construction activity removes on‑street parking or uses public parking areas.
Councilmember (mover not specified) described examples where staging for large commercial projects and multiple simultaneous single‑family builds left residents with blocked streets and inaccessible trash and emergency service routes. “You go see an event and we couldn’t park anywhere because all the parking was taken up by construction crews,” she said when describing a commercial area near Oxford Exchange.
Abby Feeley, administrator for Development and Economic Opportunity, told council staff had surveyed peer cities and found that very large projects…
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