{"id":29004,"date":"2020-09-03T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29004"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:22:59","slug":"clarksville-downtown-parking-changes-go-into-effect-september-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/09\/03\/clarksville-downtown-parking-changes-go-into-effect-september-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Downtown Parking changes go into effect September 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clarksville Downtown Parking Plan includes Four-Hour Limit at all On-Street Meters<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-460783\" title=\"City of Clarksville\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/City-of-Clarksville-2.jpg\" alt=\"City of Clarksville\" width=\"260\" height=\"72\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On Tuesday, September 8th, 2020, the new downtown parking plan approved last month by the Clarksville Parking Commission will take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The changes apply only to on-street metered spaces, which will now require a 25-cent payment to begin a parking session.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_499395\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Clarksville-Downtown-Parking-changes-go-into-effect-September-8th.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499395\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-499395\" title=\"Parking changes will take effect September 8th for all on-street metered parking in Downtown Clarksville.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Clarksville-Downtown-Parking-changes-go-into-effect-September-8th-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Parking changes will take effect September 8th for all on-street metered parking in Downtown Clarksville.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-499395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking changes will take effect September 8th for all on-street metered parking in Downtown Clarksville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plan also expands the time limit at on-street metered spaces to four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The changes do not raise parking rates and are designed to create a simpler, more consumer-friendly approach to downtown parking and overcome some of the system\u2019s equipment and enforcement challenges.<\/p>\n<h3>The changes taking effect on Tuesday include:<\/h3>\n<p>Deactivating all parking sensors, and requiring a 25-cent payment to start a downtown parking session.<\/p>\n<p>The first 25 cents provides 15 minutes of parking time and one hour of courtesy time.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, parking will remain $2.00 per hour, payable by coin or credit card, and parking sessions will be limited to a 4-hour maximum at all on-street metered parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The effective rate for four hours of parking will be $6.25.<\/p>\n<h3>Also notable:<\/h3>\n<p>The changes do not affect fees and procedures in place at the downtown public parking garages and city-controlled surface parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>On-street metered parking spaces remain free on weekends and after 5:00pm on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, which was approved unanimously, was recommended to the Parking Commission by Premier Parking, a consultant hired to provide parking management, and the City Finance and Revenue Department, which supervises parking operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville Downtown Parking Plan includes Four-Hour Limit at all On-Street Meters Clarksville, TN &#8211; On Tuesday, September 8th, 2020, the new downtown parking plan approved last month by the Clarksville Parking Commission will take effect. The changes apply only to on-street metered spaces, which will now require a 25-cent payment to begin a parking session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[250,512,10843,634,34730,825,1266,34815],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29005,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004\/revisions\/29005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}