The third and supposedly final Community and Economic Development Committee meeting on downtown parking is tonight, and Downtown Rutland Partnership executive director Michael Coppinger said his board reviewed the mayor's proposal -- parking getting scarcer more expensive on the street but cheaper and easier in the deck -- yesterday.
"We agree with, I'd say, 99 percent of it," he said. "We're going to ask the board and the mayor for a few tweaks."
Coppinger would not go into what those tweaks were because he wants to present them to the committee before airing them out in the media, so you folks will just have to pick up tomorrow's Herald, won't you?
Coppinger said the DRP board also talked about Alderman Ed Larson's alternate proposals -- subsidizing free parking in the deck and allowing two-hour free parking downtown -- and concluded they would be worth testing out once the Mayor's plan (or the tweaked version thereof) is in place.
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