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Porterville committee backs city reminder and merchant template to ease Main Street parking ahead of holidays
Summary
The Downtown Porterville Committee voted to have the city send a friendly reminder and provide a merchants' template encouraging voluntary compliance with Main Street parking rules; members will review enforcement and ordinance options in January.
The Downtown Porterville Committee on Thursday approved a plan asking the city to send a reminder to downtown businesses and provide a template letter merchants can use to encourage employees and long-term parkers to use side lots.
Chair Ed McGuire opened the discussion by citing recent parade successes and said the committee wanted to protect merchants from vendors or visitors who “took advantage of our merchants” during events. Committee members and staff described a mix of short-term outreach and longer-term enforcement options to improve parking turnover…
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