If you live in off-Grounds housing, your parking problems soon may get even worse.
Charlottesville City Council members passed an ordinance Monday to adopt permit parking policies on individual streets in the University area, Council member Kevin Lynch said.
Council met with residents of the Venable, Jefferson Park Avenue, Lewis Mountain and Fifeville areas before passing the ordinance. It would allow each block, or portion of a block, of these neighborhoods to apply separately for permit parking.
The permits would cost $25, in order to cover fees incurred while processing the application. The hours of restriction would be from midnight to 7 p.m., seven days a week.
Council member Meredith Richards said the system allows for a fair amount of flexibility in terms of which neighborhoods would have restricted parking.
"Not every neighborhood was interested," she said.
The affected neighborhoods probably would be Venable, Rugby and Grady as well as areas of Jefferson Park Avenue, Richards said.
According to a study from the city's Department of Neighborhood Development Services, the Lewis Mountain and Fifeville neighborhoods did not desire any changes to their current parking system.
Upon receiving an application, the city will survey the block and the residents, including renters, in order to determine the need for permits.
The city will count the number of cars parked on the street at different times of the day, as well as note the percentage that are owned by commuters instead of residents.
Richards estimated that at any given point during the day, about 75 percent of the cars on a street are commuter-owned.
"Residents around the University are under pressure from both University students and employees. The University is a 24-hour a day operation," Lynch said. "They're simply finding it impossible to park."
The Council meeting also addressed safety concerns.
"Particularly in the Rugby area, students are parking and then staying until three or four in the morning," Lynch said. "And then they're not always in the best condition to drive."
Rebecca White, University director of parking and transportation, said the new ordinance probably would bring more students back to University parking.
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