PORT ANGELES — A downtown parking solution which calls for a redesigned Gateway International Transportation Center — and possibly increased costs to downtown merchants to help pay for it — will be the main topic of the Port Angeles Downtown Association’s meeting on Wednesday.
Merchants will be asked to vote on the “solution plan” from the city’s parking advisory committee, as well as on the original Gateway development plan and on recommendations made to the Downtown Association at its Jan. 8 and Jan. 29 meetings.
The merchants will also face the possibility that they will need to pay increased downtown assessments to pay for replacing the parking that will be lost when Gateway is built.
“There’s lots of downtown business sense on how to make this work — the real acid test is Wednesday evening (at the Downtown Association meeting),” said city Economic Development Director Tim Smith.
The meeting — for all downtown merchants but open to the public — begins at 6 p.m. in the Harborside meeting room next to Downriggers Restaurant on the second floor of The Landing mall.
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