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Downtown business owner warns pedestrian mall would worsen parking shortage
Summary
Tim Steiner, owner of new downtown business Station Golf, told the Cheney Planning Commission that College Avenue parking is insufficient for 18 businesses and said closing the street to cars as a pedestrian mall would limit customers who travel from up to twenty miles away.
Tim Steiner, a new downtown business owner at 116 N. 6th Street, told the Cheney Planning Commission that downtown Cheney lacks parking and urged commissioners not to close College Avenue to vehicular traffic.
"There is a shortage of parking in the downtown," Steiner said, and he told the commission that 18 businesses in the area share only 14 parking spaces and that "at best six cars" can park on College Avenue. Steiner said some customers travel as far as 20 miles to visit downtown businesses and warned that converting College Avenue to a pedestrian mall would limit customer access.
Steiner presented images showing curb and curb-adjacent parking and referenced parking solutions used in other small Washington cities such as Dayton and Walla Walla. He also said nearby business owners had not been consulted about any proposal to close the street.
The Planning Commission did not take action on the parking matter during the meeting; the comment was recorded during the citizen participation portion of the March 9 meeting and will remain part of the public record for future agenda consideration.
