Officials are proposing a pilot parking plan for Princeton residents

The Princeton Council handed over the proposed pilot parking permit program for residents and business employees to the city’s professional staff for consideration and possible recommendations after a three-hour special meeting on March 1.

Professionals will review the proposed pilot program for Witherspoon-Jackson and the Tree Streets – Chestnut, Pine, Maple and Al and Linden Lane – which were initially the focus of the Princeton Parking Permits Task Force when it was set up. years ago.

Residents of these neighborhoods, located near the Central Business District and restaurants in the Jagtown neighborhood at the eastern end of Nassau Street, are competing with staff for free on-street parking. Some residents lack parking on the street.

The latest set of recommendations of the task force provides for the issuance of parking permits to employees, which cost $ 30 per month, in off-street parking in the parking lot of the former Westminster College Choir and the municipal parking lot on McLean Street, and in unused parking lots.

Residents who do not have street parking will receive one free parking permit, which will be valid around the clock, and a second permit for $ 240 per year. Residents who have a driveway with one car and who want to get permission to park on the street can buy it for $ 240 a year.

On the streets away from the Central Business District, work permits could be purchased for $ 360 a year ($ 30 a month). The number of issued permits will be determined after the revocation of the issued free residence permits.

The task force considered including streets in the West – Hodge Road, Place Library, Budino Street and Morven Place – in the parking permit plan.

The task force also considered including streets near Princeton High School and streets on the south side of Nassau Street – Aiken Avenue, Patton and Princeton and Murray Place – in the parking permit plan.

However, all of these neighborhoods were removed from the parking permit plan after residents pushed away from it – so the proposed parking permit plan remained in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhoods and tree-lined streets.