Residents could catch a parking break at the beach if Delray Beach follows through on a suggestion by Commissioner Tom Carney.
Carney’s recommendation would push back the start of metering of beach-area parking about an hour and a half on Monday throu
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By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach’s valet parking system will escape a comprehensive overhaul, but will be tweaked to address issues raised by commissioners and staff.
“As far as I’m concerned, from what I understand with the stakehol
Budget cuts put the kibosh on Fourth of July fireworks in Lantana last year, but that won’t be the case this year. Last month, the Town Council approved a $25,000 contract with Zambelli Fireworks Manufacturing to put on a 22-minute display set to mus
Parking specialist Scott Aronson was directed to put together a fee-based parking program that will give Delray Beach commissioners a solid starting point on how downtown parking will be managed and funded.
The plan comes after two parking charret
By Margie Plunkett
To meter or not to meter, that was the question at two Delray Beach meetings last month intended to generate ideas that will get the city closer to resolving its longtime parking issues.
More than 50 merchants, restaurateurs
By Margie Plunkett
and Tim O’Meilia
Lantana’s Ocean Avenue bridge closed for two years — bummer.
Lantana’s lease of sections of two parks for two years — cause for fireworks. Literally.
The new $33.2 million Ocean Avenue bridge will not onl
With its year-old parking study in hand, Delray Beach is reaching out for public discussion on how to operate and pay for parking in the city.
The commission agreed public input was in order after parking management specialis
A rainy late afternoon in mid-October on East Ocean Avenue in Lantana. The orange valet parking cones are out in front of Bar Italia, but it’s early and little need for them yet.
Down the street cars are beginning to pull into t
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Beach meter parking would rise a quarter to $1.50 per hour if commissioners give it the th
Commissioners passed the measure 3-2, reconsidering it
By Angie Francalancia
Depending on whom you’re asking, the new parking meters in Boca Raton’s Mizner Park and at the city’s beaches are either a boon or the bane of residents’ travels.
Five months after the city installed new meters at what Mayor S
Delray Beach commissioners revived the discussion of downtown restaurant parking, voting 3-2 to reconsider whether to remove incentives once designed to attract restaurants. The ordinance will be heard on first reading Sept. 6.
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Beachgoers may pay a quarter more an hour for parking in Delray Beach in the next budget year, which would raise about $193,000 in new fees for the city.
The parking increase was one of several proposed fee increases presented at the
By Margie Plunkett
The restaurant sector has retained its place on Delray Beach’s most-wanted list.
The commission unanimously turned down an ordinance to remove parking incentives from some Atlantic Avenue restaurants that would have doubled t
The DDA called for a mor
By Angie Francalancia
The beach is timeless, forever lapped by waves and shaped by shifting sands.
Not so the parking meter, a ticking intrusion into the untroubled landscape that is a day at the beach.
Parking meters or daily fees are the norm at city
A volunteer checks vehicles for expired meters along Ocean Boulevard in Delray Beach. City officials say they hope meters bring in $1.2 million per year. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Tim Norris
Delray Beach’s parking checkers do not hide their light. It’s
By Steve Plunkett
The city, which last summer installed parking meters on Palmetto Park Road east of the Intracoastal Waterway, might now assume ownership of the road.
Palm Beach County, which owns the highway, told city officials it will not permi
By Margie Plunkett
A recent study of parking in downtown Delray Beach would remove a feature thatsome merchants believe keeps the shopping area bustling — free parking.
The study by Kimley-Horn Associates Inc., which was presented at community m