Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Planning board to study creating more parking options

The Town of Palm Beach Planning and Zoning board discusses the intricacies of providing parking in the commercial areas of the town. Click title for link. From the article:
Several members spoke in favor of researching the land available and the cost associated with building a parking garage.
“We’re not going to put in land fill and create more land on Palm Beach to put the cars,” Commissioner Carol Mack said. “The absolute problem is the lack of space. The only solution really is multi-tiered parking. Multi-level parking garages can be a thing of beauty. You can get very good architects to design them so that they’re not an eyesore.”
A garage could help solve an issue with retail employees, particularly on Worth Avenue, who often use the two-hour spaces instead of leaving them for customers. The board discussed several ways of regulating employee parking, including having the town require businesses to say how many employees they have and how they will provide parking for them before issuing a business-tax receipt.