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Council asks staff to study removing meters for 2‑hour free parking; agrees to holiday stay for downtown
Summary
After a wide-ranging discussion, Muscatine city councilors on Oct. 14 directed staff to analyze finances and implementation if coin meters and pay‑by‑app were removed in favor of free two‑hour parking downtown (proposal 1). The council also agreed to consider a temporary stay of enforcement for the city's holiday shopping period.
Jeff Osborne, Second Ward council representative, presented two parking proposals to the Muscatine City Council on Oct. 14 and asked whether council wanted staff to develop formal ordinance language and hold three public hearings.
Osborne summarized the proposals: one would remove coin meters and the pay‑by‑app requirement and make all metered spaces two‑hour free parking (mirroring what council members described as a successful pattern on Second Street); the other would keep paid meters but extend the current Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. enforcement window to Saturdays and Sundays, with weekend enforcement by complaint rather than by attendants.
"This is not a vote. It is direction for discussion, direction to so that we can move forward with, 3 public…
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