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City Council requests actionable items for downtown parking
On June 18th, the NDDC got an opportunity to present the findings of the parking Conversation, along with some specific recommendations, to the City Council. The Council demonstrated impressive...
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Ongoing online publicity for the downtown parking management project
Throughout the life of this project, we’ve posted updates to this blog and alerted people to them via our RSS Feed, the @Nfld_parking Twitter feed, and our email subscription option. On our right...
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July 31 parking management planning meeting at City Hall
The Council Parking Subcommittee met on Wednesday, July 31st, to prepare for the August 13th Northfield City Council Work Session. The meeting opened with a discussion of Verne Gagne, Gene Kiniski,...
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Downtown parking management: recommended action steps for Aug. 13 Council...
Here is the "Final Final Final" list of recommendations for increasing leverage from existing parking in downtown Northfield. It is included in the Council Packet for next Tuesday’s (8/13) Work...
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A footnote: bicyclists and downtown parking
The two recommendations in the final parking report for which there are not brief, simple sentences are related to bicycles. These recommendations, numbers 5 and 8, are longer term and more complex....
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Washington St. lot restriped to optimize parking spaces
We’ve used the phrase ‘low-hanging fruit’ to describe some of the recommended actionable steps for better managing downtown parking. Here’s one that’s been done already that’s so low-hanging that it...
View ArticleVideo: City Council work session discussion of the downtown parking...
The first half hour or so of Tuesday’s Northfield City Council work session was devoted to the downtown parking recommendations. Here’s the video. For the entire video of the work session, see this...
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Proposed layout of directional and way-finding signs for public parking
#3 on the list of Parking Management Recommendations that were presented to the City Council last week states: Reviewing and upgrading directional and way-finding signs to public parking: City Staff...
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A bicycle field trip with Dale Gehring to get smarter about ‘making the...
‘Over Hill, ‘long with Dale, We did Hit that Dusty Trail… actually, in some places, the trail, or lane, was conceptual. A couple weeks ago, the Northfield News reported that the results of the NDDC’s...
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City ready to experiment with short-term parking spaces in downtown Northfield
Item #2 on the list of parking recommendations stated: Reducing parking time limits for some parking to create pick-up/drop-off spaces: City Council and Staff are ready to begin an “experiment” with 15...
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