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Mooresville advances parking-deck plan and pushes downtown parking-management changes
Summary
Town staff and consultants presented a parking-deck design and a parallel parking-management plan that would add about 277 net spaces on the downtown block and introduce time limits, enforcement technology and the option to outsource enforcement to a private operator.
Mooresville leaders reviewed a conceptual design for a downtown parking deck and discussed short-term parking-management changes intended to free curbside spaces for customers and visitors.
The town’s design-build team and consultants told the Board of Commissioners that the deck concept includes 481 parking spaces and that, combined with the existing off-street layout, the block would have 512 spaces — a net increase of 277 spaces over current counted inventory. Ashton, a town staff member who presented the layout, said the 481–plus–31 configuration would produce that total.
The planning and management discussion focused less on the deck’s structure than on how the town will manage on-street curbspace and enforce time limits. Jim Corbett of Walker Consultants said the town should adopt clear ordinance language on where and when time limits apply and on civil penalties, and that the town “obviously recommend[s] mobilization versus towing” as an enforcement approach.
Why it matters: downtown businesses say long-term parkers and employees occupy…
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