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Here’s How to Apply for the New Downtown Permit Parking Program

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By Richard Kaufman

The Department of Parking Services is ready to receive applications for the new parking permit program for residents who live downtown.

One-hundred parking permits will be issued to qualified residents that will be valid in any one of the 10 long term (12-hour) municipal parking lots throughout the central Greenwich business district area. The annual cost of these permits, including Connecticut sales tax and a $5 processing fee, will be $725. This cost will be prorated to the first day of the month in which the permit is issued. Permits will be valid through the remainder of 2021.

Parking Services will begin accepting applications for these permits on Wednesday, Feb. 17. A lottery system will be utilized if the demand exceeds the approved allocation of 100 permits. The deadline to submit applications will close at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 1.

The Board of Selectmen approved the permit program last month during a regularly scheduled meeting. At that meeting, Greenwich Deputy Police Chief, Mark Marino, who also heads the Parking Services Department, said the program was developed in response to changes in parking trends in the downtown area, stemming from people working at home during the pandemic.

It’s also part of Parking Services’ long standing goal of trying to steer all-day parkers away from the two-hour parking spaces on Greenwich Avenue, so they can be used for people coming into town to shop or eat.

First Selectman Fred Camillo and Selectperson Lauren Rabin voted in favor of the program, but Selectperson Jill Oberlander objected, saying that unintended consequences might pop-up if the program was implemented.

Marino said that the program won’t have a negative impact on the volume of cars in the downtown area lots.

“I think the people that we’re targeting for these types of permits are already parking in these parking lots, or in the downtown area. I don’t see it as being an influx of new parkers that are going to have an impact on the capacity of the parking lots,” he said at the time.

An application form, along with a detailed list of the program’s regulations and defined boundaries, can be found on the Parking Services page of the Town of Greenwich website or can be obtained in person at Parking Services between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information, visit the Town of Greenwich website www.greenwichct.gov, contact Parking Services at 203-618-3060, or email parkingserviceslottery@greenwichct.org.

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