Lakeland commissioners will consider spending nearly $300,000 in hopes of making it easier for drivers to navigate two downtown parking garages.
The City Commission will vote Monday on a contract with Massachusetts-based TCS International Inc. to install parking guidance systems in the Main Street and Heritage Plaza parking garages. The project’s cost is $299,888.
“I think it will make it much clearer to the user where they can park and where they can’t park, ” said Tess Schwartz, the city’s traffic operations manager.
The city’s ultimate goal is to allow downtown visitors to have an easier parking experience.
“One will be like the Disney system with LEDs above each space, the other is like express parking at a garage where there are a number of spaces on each floor,” Mayor Bill Mutz said.
Heritage Garage
The Heritage Parking Garage’s parking guidance system will be more extensive based on the diversity of its users in the shared space.
The city will pay TCS International to install 263 single-space censors above each parking space in the garage below the gate to the third-floor, not just the city-owned spaces.