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Downtown paid parking is interrupting volunteer river cleanups, organizer tells Wichita council
Summary
A volunteer leader said new paid parking downtown has blocked access to a key cleanup site and urged the city to create free volunteer parking dates or event tags so community groups can continue trash pickups without paying to serve the city.
Christina Fuerst, who runs the Wichita Riverwalk Cleanup Crew, told the City Council on Feb. 10 that paid parking introduced in downtown Wichita is disrupting volunteer cleanups at a key boat-ramp parking lot south of Kings of Freight under Kellogg. Fuerst said the group has run monthly cleanups since 2017, volunteers have removed 2,791 bags of trash since 2019, and at the referenced site…
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