WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 A plan that would bring additional parking to downtown Winter Park is now on hold.<\/p>\n
During Wednesday’s City Commission meeting, local officials had the option to move forward with a public-private partnership for a parking garage development. The city had originally issued a formal solicitation to identify qualified respondents that would assist the city in building a parking garage, and three companies were selected to move forward in the process.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, city officials decided to table the project until after the November election to see whether a proposed property tax amendment is approved by the voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cParking has always been an issue,\u201d said Maureen Hall, owner of Maureen Hall Stationery & Invitations. \u201cAlthough it has been alleviated throughout the years through the parking garages, more people are coming into town.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to information from the city, downtown Winter Park brings in millions of visitors every year, and a 2024 city report shows that Park Avenue gets more than 8,000 visits a day.<\/p>\n
A 2024 parking study conducted by Kimley-Horn showed that there were more than 2,400 parking spaces in downtown Winter Park during the weekday and more than 2,500 spaces during the weekend. This same study showed a parking shortage of about 135 spaces within the Park Avenue corridor.<\/p>\n
Though the project is preliminary, the proposals for a garage included anywhere from 200 to 400 additional parking spaces.<\/p>\n
The city is expected to consider the parking garage plan as a discussion item during a meeting in the first week of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 A plan that would bring additional parking to downtown Winter Park is now on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,274,8905,28,115,1335,139,141,140,278,835],"class_list":["post-372485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-top-stories","tag-camille-acevedo","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}