Board floats free two-hour parking in the convention center garage; options due in October
Who it touches
- convention center garage users
- downtown Terre Haute restaurants
Tracked in the archive
Chair Brandon Sakbun asked the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) to consider free two-hour parking in the convention center garage, saying new downtown restaurants and coming construction will make street parking harder (0:54:22,. 0:55:03 — open the recording, cued to 55 minutes 3 seconds
A board member backed it as a way to ease lunch and dinner crowding at an underused garage, while warning it could become a parking lot for Indiana State University students. 0:56:16 — open the recording, cued to 56 minutes 16 seconds
Convention center staff said ISU students flooded the garage for monthly passes when it opened, and suggested talking with ISU parking first. 0:58:38 — open the recording, cued to 58 minutes 38 seconds
Sakbun said he would not oppose raising the $1-an-hour rate to $1.25 to offset lost revenue. 1:00:51 — open the recording, cued to 1 hour 51 seconds
More from the record
- Item 6.3 introduced0:54:22 (54 minutes 22 seconds)
- Three options for October1:01:14 (1 hour 1 minute 14 seconds)
Outcome
No action; three options requested for the October meeting
No action was taken. Sakbun asked for three options to review at the October meeting (1:01:14).
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