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Council approves new downtown parking plan: free short-term stalls, enforcement begins in March
Summary
Council adopted a revised downtown parking plan to protect short-term turnover for merchants, with free two-hour on-street and surface lot parking and a parking-deck policy that becomes paid after two hours; enforcement will begin after an education period in March.
Greenville City Council approved a revised downtown parking plan Thursday intended to improve turnover for retailers and reduce long-term parking by commuters and students.
City Chief Financial Officer Jacob Joyner outlined the plan: free on-street parking remains between First and Third streets near the courthouse; most other on-street and surface-lot parking will be free for the first two hours; the downtown parking deck will be free for two hours and then charge 75 cents per hour after that. Resident and employer permit programs for downtown users remain available; reserved monthly parking continues at $72 and unreserved downtown permits at $52, and employee permits at $22 per month.
Enforcement will use license-plate readers and an escalating fine schedule: first offense a warning, second offense $10 and the third and subsequent violations $20; vehicles with three or more outstanding citations older than 90 days may be towed. The city plans an education period through February and will begin enforcement in March.
Troy Dreyfus, executive director of the Downtown Greenville Partnership, said downtown stakeholders support the change, noting the plan was developed with city leaders and business input: “The people that I represent in our organization is 100% in support of this,” he told council.
Council approved the plan and asked staff to proceed with the outreach and enforcement schedule.
City officials said the intent is to make parking easier to understand for visitors and to reserve long-term spaces for those who work or live in Uptown via permit programs.
