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Council approves new parking enforcement system, keeps on‑street limit at three hours
Summary
Council authorized purchase of parking enforcement hardware/software, increased fines, and new enforcement hours while declining a staff proposal to reduce on-street limits from three hours to two.
The Blowing Rock Town Council voted June 10 to modernize parking enforcement by purchasing new handheld enforcement devices and backend software, increasing selected fines, and changing enforcement hours — but it declined to shorten the on-street maximum from three hours to two.
What the council approved: Council voted to move forward with the purchase of parking-enforcement equipment and software, authorize an implementation plan, raise selected citation amounts (time violation fines and subsequent penalties), and set regulated enforcement hours to 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Saturday and 1 p.m.–5 p.m. Sundays. Maple Street’s lot remains a three-hour monitored lot under the adopted plan. The vote was unanimous.
Why it matters: Staff presented recommendations from a consultant study that included consistent…
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