Starting in about a little over a month, shoppers in Downtown Wenatchee will have a little longer before they have to move their cars. The Wenatchee City Council yesterday (thu) extended the parking limit from two to three hours in the downtown core.
Linda Haglund, executive director of the Wenatchee Downtown Association says over the past several months, WDA members have met representatives from the city's police and engineering departments to talk about how to enhance the shopping environment downtown. One recommendations, expand the parking time limit. Haglund says it takes two hours plus for many people to have lunch and then shop at local businesses.
The change applies parking on Wenatchee Avenue between 2nd and Yakima Streets, as well as on the side streets, from Mission to Columbia between 2nd Street and Yakima. Haglund says they'll do the change on a trial basis, through the holiday shopping period, from November 1st, through the Apple Blossom Festival, at the end of May. After the trial period officials with the Police Department and WDA will revisit the issue and see if the change should be made permanent.
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