{"id":14270,"date":"2024-04-17T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=14270"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:44:15","slug":"city-council-approves-changes-for-downtown-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/city-council-approves-changes-for-downtown-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Approves Changes for Downtown Parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima City Council approved a number of changes Tuesday night related to <a href=\"https:\/\/yakima.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=11171&amp;MeetingID=1137\">parking in the downtown area<\/a>. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reducing the parking violation ticket amount to $20<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yakima.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=11172&amp;MeetingID=1137\">Reducing long-term parking pass costs to $20 per month<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring adequate parking for visitors and employees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Making parking lot parking free for 3 hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Making street parking free for 2 hours, while leaving flexibility for street parking time limits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Changing the boundaries of the area wherein people may qualify to apply for parking permits in city-owned parking lots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Administrative changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In related action Tuesday night, Council <a href=\"https:\/\/yakima.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=11173&amp;MeetingID=1137\">extended the current moratorium<\/a> on enforcement of parking on downtown streets and City-owned parking lots through May 31<sup>st<\/sup>. During the extended moratorium, warnings will be issued for parking enforcement but no fines will be levied. Enforcement will resume June 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A moratorium was first approved by Council on December 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023. It was extended to April 19<sup>th<\/sup> following public input on downtown parking issues during a January 23<sup>rd<\/sup> community meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with the original moratorium, parking infractions related to public safety will be enforced. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parking in a fire lane<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parking in front of a fire hydrant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parking in a manner that creates a public safety hazard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unlawfully parking in a Disabled designated spot&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about Downtown parking changes and ongoing moratorium is also available via a \u201cPoint of Interest\u201d atop the City website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/\">City of Yakima | The Heart of Central Washington (yakimawa.gov)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14272\" style=\"width:371px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/parking-changes-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f15aafd6-18ff-4816-9f3e-904b293ccbb7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Downtown-Parking-Changes-News-Release-1.pdf\">Downtown-Parking-Changes-News-Release-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Downtown-Parking-Changes-News-Release-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f15aafd6-18ff-4816-9f3e-904b293ccbb7\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council approved a number of changes Tuesday night related to parking in the downtown area. They include: In related action Tuesday night, Council extended the current moratorium on enforcement of parking on downtown streets and City-owned parking lots through May 31st. During the extended moratorium, warnings will be issued for parking enforcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14274,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}