The Westbrook City Council has approved a parking plan to use as a guide in coming years to ease downtown parking troubles.
The plan, approved Monday night, could include metered parking spots, a city employee hired to enforce ticketing, more public lots and possibly a parking garage.
The city will look to implement the plan over the next decade as more businesses locate to Westbrook and further crowd the city’s congested downtown parking lots.
The parking plan will attempt to reorganize the city’s parking spots so that short-term parking is given priority in front of retail or service-oriented businesses. Long-term parking will be located farther away from buildings with retail space.
To accommodate employees of downtown businesses, the city is looking to create new municipal lots and possibly a parking garage some time in the next decade. Within the next few years, the city may implement metered parking in short-term parking spots.
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