With just over a month before parking meters are scheduled to become active in downtown Charlottesville, around two dozen people gathered in CitySpace Wednesday for an update on the pilot project to bring paid parking to downtown. City Council voted 4-1 in April 2016 to proceed with a six-month program to test a new parking […]
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Council to vote on rates for new meters, lower garage fees
Charlottesville’s City Council will be asked Wednesday to set a rate for parking meters that soon will be installed between Market Street and Water Street, but that is not the only change proposed for downtown parking. “There’s always been an economic mistake in the way parking was set up here, where it was free on […]
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Parking meters could come back to downtown Charlottesville this August
A six-month test of parking meters around Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall could begin as early as August. Officials believe that if the project is successful, it will improve the chances of finding a parking spot near the mall. “What we hope that it does is open up some of those spaces,” said Rick Siebert, hired last […]
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Judge denies CPC’s petition for emergency third-party receiver
Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore has denied a request from the private company that currently operates the Water Street Parking Garage to appoint a receiver to manage the facility on an emergency basis. “It’s an emergency of their own making,” Moore said at the conclusion of a three-hour hearing Monday. The Charlottesville Parking […]
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First of many hearings held in Water Street Parking Garage lawsuits
Judge Richard E. Moore presided Wednesday over what could be the first of many Charlottesville Circuit Court hearings to resolve several legal disputes between city government and the private company that currently manages the Water Street Parking Garage. The Charlottesville Parking Center filed suit against Charlottesville in March alleging city officials have kept rates in […]
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City files countersuit against Charlottesville Parking Center
The city of Charlottesville has filed a countersuit against the Charlottesville Parking Center, claiming the private company breached a contract when it purchased 106 spaces in the Water Street Parking Garage last October. The operations of the garage are governed by a condominium declaration signed in 1994 and amended in 2002. “In or about October […]
