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Webster Groves panel's shared-parking proposal to guide future requests; council kept existing restrictions
Summary
Members of a Webster Groves commission reviewed a two-tier shared-parking proposal designed to standardize parking restrictions and heard staff say the City Council will apply the new guidelines only to future requests, not to existing grandfathered parking zones.
Members of a Webster Groves commission spent the bulk of their meeting reviewing a multi-year shared-parking proposal and the City Council's decision on how it will be applied.
The commission's proposal, developed over several years and presented to council in November 2023, calls for a two-tiered approach. The first tier is a safety screen based on street width: streets below the commission's safety threshold would receive no-parking restrictions on one or both sides to ensure emergency and service vehicles can pass. The second tier would allow permit or "shared" parking where residents petition for it and density measurements justify permits.
"It is a two-tiered plan," commission member Carrie Faulkner said, summarizing work the group compiled since late 2021. "The first tier is anyone can make a request ... If…
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