Greer council workshop reviews downtown parking study; on-street spaces nearly full at peak

Greer City Council held a workshop Feb. 26, 2025, to review a downtown parking study by Walker Consultants that found on-street parking reached 98% occupancy during a Friday evening peak counted in November and that the district has about 147 delineated on-street spaces and roughly 875 public off-street spaces.

The study, commissioned by the city and presented by Jim Booker of Walker Consultants, drew on two site visits, stakeholder meetings and a public survey of 561 respondents. Booker said the analysis shows high curb occupancy and lower utilization of off-street inventory, and he urged the council to identify a local champion to carry any parking-management program forward. "If we just deliver your recommendations and nothing's done with it, or we don't have anybody to sorta carry that forward, it's just gonna sorta sit there as it is," Booker said.

The study area covered roughly 20 blocks centered on Greer Station, running to the rail line at Moore Street to the south and Arlington to the north. Consultants reported a combined public and private off-street utilization of about 43% during the…