{"id":204866,"date":"2026-05-28T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:06:10","slug":"planned-apartment-complex-in-wyomissing-raises-parking-availability-concerns-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204866\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned apartment complex in Wyomissing raises parking availability concerns | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8212; Some say parking availability is at a premium in part of Wyomissing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It probably won&#8217;t be, and I&#8217;m worried about my scooter,&#8221; said Tony Matz.<\/p>\n<p>Scooter space or otherwise &#8212; the question in Wyomissing involves the current parking lot at 915 Penn Avenue &#8212; with Wyomissing Borough telling us in a statement that council didn&#8217;t precisely follow the public notice procedure before voting to approve a conditional use application for the space and a planned 30-unit apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because in our society with our governance that&#8217;s the way things operate,&#8221; Matz said.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors say they like the growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around here, I think they&#8217;re doing good job of putting a lot of businesses and good places to eat around here,&#8221; said Imani Brown, who lives in Wyomissing.<\/p>\n<p>But at what cost?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now it seems to be doing good as far as what&#8217;s going on here, but as it grows, I think it will be an issue if they change this lot it will definitely minimize the parking in this area,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it goes though the channels properly what can I say? I could be against it, but I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Matz said.<\/p>\n<p>So this is ultimately about procedure and parking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that will definitely cause an issue around here especially these places that have parking right out front a lot of the pick up places cause a lot of traffic along here,&#8221; Matz said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8212; Some say parking availability is at a premium in part of Wyomissing. &#8220;It probably won&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-204866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}