GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro city leaders spent part of the day walking through downtown with business owners, listening to concerns about a new paid-parking program and the broader challenges facing the city’s core after several recent business closures.
The walking tour in Downtown marked the first of three planned “walk and talk” sessions designed to gather feedback directly from business owners, residents and patrons. City officials said the goal was not to announce policy changes, but to hear how the parking rollout and other issues are affecting people on the ground.
“This is a listening time for council to lean into some of the problems that have come up since we rolled out the new parking plan,” said City Council member April Parker…