Board floats free two-hour parking in the convention center garage; options due in October

What happened

Chair Brandon Sakbun asked the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) to consider free two-hour parking in the convention center garage, saying new downtown restaurants and coming construction will make street parking harder (0:54:22, 0:55:03). A board member backed it as a way to ease lunch and dinner crowding at an underused garage, while warning it could become a parking lot for Indiana State University students (0:56:16). Convention center staff said ISU students flooded the garage for monthly passes when it opened, and suggested talking with ISU parking first (0:58:38). Sakbun said he would not oppose raising the $1-an-hour rate to $1.25 to offset lost revenue (1:00:51).

The outcome

No action was taken. Sakbun asked for three options to review at the October meeting (1:01:14).

Sources

• Item 6.3 introduced, 0:54:22
• Free two-hour proposal, 0:55:03
• Board member support and student concern, 0:56:16
• Staff on ISU students, 0:58:38
• Possible $1.25 rate, 1:00:51
• Three options for October, 1:01:14

Also known as: free parking downtown Terre Haute · convention center garage parking · two hours free parking · ISU students parking garage