MUSKEGON, MI – As downtown lots continue being developed, the city of Muskegon has added 44 new on-street parking spots.
One lane of traffic in each direction on Terrace Street has been switched to angled parking near Muskegon City Hall and the Muskegon County courthouse.
The new spots are in a section of road divided by a grassy median between Muskegon and Apple avenues.
The location also is near the Muskegon Farmers Market.
The parking is needed to make up for the loss of a city employee parking lot that is going to be developed into housing, said Muskegon Public Works Director Leo Evans.
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The addition of parking has the added benefit of slowing traffic in that area, Evans said.
“It helps make the community and neighborhood more walkable,” he said.
The parking may be temporary as the city has plans to eventually overhaul Terrace Street, which is far too wide than needed, city officials said.
The work on Terrace won’t start until 2022, but the goal is to switch the divided road to one lane in each direction from Apple Avenue to Shoreline Drive, Evans said.
That could mean that half street will be for traffic and the other half for parking, he said.
“It’s an awful lot of pavement for not very many cars,” said LeighAnn Mikesell, the city’s director of development services. “We’d like to make that feel more like a downtown city street than it currently does.”
Similarly, Muskegon and Webster avenues, which previously were one-way streets, were converted several years ago to one-lane two-way streets with parallel parking.
City officials in 2018 agreed to sell the city parking lot on Jefferson Street near Apple Avenue to a developer for a housing complex. After a delay in getting needed low-income housing tax credits from the state, the developer is getting ready to succeed, Mikesell said.
General Capital agreed to buy the lot from the city for $455,000. The developer, which previously developed the Berkshire senior citizen apartments downtown, is planning to build low- and moderate-income apartments there.
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