Just days away from the July 15th Parking regulation launch date and the City agreed to modify the plan by not enforcing parking regulations on Saturdays until the council can deliberate further in August. So we can say they are listening to you!

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Excerpt from the article in the Fayetteville Observer.

The city of Fayetteville has modified a parking plan that could have resulted in motorists being ticketed every Saturday for parking too long in downtown spaces.

Under a revised city plan, people will be able to park as long as they want in the on-street free downtown parking spaces on Saturdays as long as there are no special events, Mayor Mitch Colvin said Wednesday.

“For non-event weekends,” Colvin said, “there is a consensus (of the council) not to have any enforcement there.”

Colvin has been lobbying fellow council members in recent days to modify the plan on Saturdays. He didn’t want any enforcement on weekends, saying other big cities don’t have it. But the mayor said he felt this was a step in the right direction.

“That was probably the best I could do without us being in session,” Colvin said.

He said the council will formally discuss the issue at a workshop in August.

Currently, the city has hundreds of spaces in the downtown area that allow people to park for two to three hours free of charge, depending on the street, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. People who park longer than that can be ticketed $10. Today, enforcement ends after the daytime hours and there is none on weekends.

But a new plan will be unveiled Monday.

It calls for enforcing the two- and three-hour time limitations from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Colvin said other council members informed him they favored modifying the rules so that enforcement of the parking rules only occurs on Saturdays when there are Fayetteville Woodpeckers minor league baseball games at Segra Stadium, the Dogwood Festival and the International Folk Festival.