Keep Downtown Plattsburgh Parking Free!


Keep Downtown Plattsburgh Parking Free!
The Issue
In 2018, Plattsburgh City Council members voted to implement a paid parking kiosk system in downtown Plattsburgh NY, which will eliminate most, if not all FREE PARKING in downtown Plattsburgh. The Plattsburgh Parking Advisory Committee (PPAC) is currently reviewing bids to rapidly implement this system in downtown. If this is implemented, ALL PARKING downtown will potentially be paid 24 hours a day-- it is highly likely that all the parking lots and all the on-street parking will be PAY-TO-PARK.
We the people-- downtown business owners, downtown business patrons, downtown residents, downtown business employees, downtown property owners and the many out-of-state downtown visitors-- OPPOSE THIS vehemently. Don't saddle downtown with the burden of a massively expensive and wholly unnecessary paid parking system.
The Common Council can vote to undo the change to paid parking, or to indefinitely postpone it as downtown adapts to the many changes it currently faces. We the people ask they do this.

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The Issue
In 2018, Plattsburgh City Council members voted to implement a paid parking kiosk system in downtown Plattsburgh NY, which will eliminate most, if not all FREE PARKING in downtown Plattsburgh. The Plattsburgh Parking Advisory Committee (PPAC) is currently reviewing bids to rapidly implement this system in downtown. If this is implemented, ALL PARKING downtown will potentially be paid 24 hours a day-- it is highly likely that all the parking lots and all the on-street parking will be PAY-TO-PARK.
We the people-- downtown business owners, downtown business patrons, downtown residents, downtown business employees, downtown property owners and the many out-of-state downtown visitors-- OPPOSE THIS vehemently. Don't saddle downtown with the burden of a massively expensive and wholly unnecessary paid parking system.
The Common Council can vote to undo the change to paid parking, or to indefinitely postpone it as downtown adapts to the many changes it currently faces. We the people ask they do this.

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The Decision Makers
Petition created on June 24, 2019