Provo Council puts parking plans on hold

PROVO — No fee, no permits. Not yet, at least.

That was the result of an attempt Tuesday by the Provo City Council to include a parking fee with its planned implementation of the North Joaquin neighborhood parking-permit plan.

The council, which passed the permit ordinance a year and a half ago, put the fee discussion on hold until July.

The plan to control overnight parking on the street from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. now likely won't go into effect until September 2011, but the council put off that discussion. The parking-fee plan was originally targeted to go into effect Sept. 1, 2009.

A planned Joaquin Village apartment complex to be built on the site of the former Joaquin Elementary School triggered the parking-fee plan in that area. The complex had been scheduled to be completed this summer, but the project has been delayed and construction has yet to begin.

The 952-student complex would have its own parking for about 800 students. The council approved the complex with fewer parking spaces than students, thinking some wouldn't have cars because the structure is near BYU. The street-parking permit would help solve that dilemma. Original Article