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Committee sets three strategic goals: university outreach, residential parking, and garage use
Summary
The chair proposed three multi‑year goals: partnering with West Chester University on student orientation, encouraging residents to use driveways/garages to ease street congestion, and promoting garage use to support downtown businesses; staff and chairs will refine priorities for the next work session.
Committee leaders outlined a three‑part strategic approach for parking over the coming years and asked staff to help narrow priorities for the year ahead.
The chair introduced the goals and stressed outreach to the town's largest institutional user: "The first goal is with West Chester University," the chair said, calling for repeated student orientation and outreach so new and returning students understand local parking rules.
The second goal asked the committee to consider residential parking strategies that encourage homeowners to use driveways and garages rather than street parking. The chair noted this would help street cleaning and reduce neighborhood stress. The third goal emphasized garage and lot management as top revenue sources and recommended measures to encourage business owners and customers to use garages rather than curbside spaces.
Staff and members agreed to produce a concise, time‑bound list of two or three manageable priorities to present to the full council at the next work session. Members stressed goals should be "achievable and measurable" and recommended the chairs meet with staff to produce a timeline for 2026 deliverables.
