Despite a large crowd showing at city hall to oppose a new downtown parking district, the Bozeman Commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of making the change. | Wikimedia commons
Despite a large crowd showing at city hall to oppose a new downtown parking district, the Bozeman Commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of making the change. | Wikimedia commons
Despite a large crowd showing at city hall to oppose a new downtown parking district, the Bozeman Commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of making the change, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
The new district encompasses the downtown, extending approximately 1,000 feet in all directions from the center.
Commissioners Michael Wallner and I-Ho Pomeroy cast the only votes in opposition, citing the already high cost of parking in Bozeman.
In allowing the parking district, the commissioners said, per the Daily Chronicle report, the intent of the change is to deal with downtown parking spillover that affects residents.
The vote does not add additional paid parking in Bozeman, but rather gives the Bozeman Parking Commission the power to create permit parking zones in the district.
“I think it’s a tool, I don’t expect the tool to be used anytime soon,” Mayor Chris Mehl told the news outlet.
The final wording of the policy allows for property owners within the district to still oppose it if they choose to. In order to prevent the district, 60% of the properties within the district would have to protest it.
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