Council rejects Lewis-Clark State College perimeter parking permit agreement after neighborhood objections

The Lewiston City Council rejected an intergovernmental agreement that would have allowed Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) to enforce permit parking on streets immediately adjacent to campus after robust public comment from neighborhood residents, church representatives and questions from councilors about notification and residency exemptions.

The item before council, Resolution 2025-40, proposed to authorize a parking-permit program on a set of streets adjacent to the LCSC footprint. Under the draft agreement, LCSC would issue permits (staff and students currently cited $95 in public comments), control enforcement for designated curbside spaces Monday–Friday during school hours, and remit a portion of revenues to the city (25% in the first year and 30% in the second year, the agreement states).

Why it mattered Neighborhood residents and the Congregational Presbyterian Church near campus said they had not been directly notified that the city and the college were negotiating a parking agreement and urged the council to weigh impacts on residential parking, church access and low-income students who use…