Danville’s industrial development authority will consider three items related to parking at its regular meeting at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
One would provide more off-street public parking, and the other two would create parking specific to a business and a residential building.
In June, the city reintroduced parking time limits to the River District, as growth in the area prompted a need to increase turnover of parking spaces for shoppers and visitors. There is no paid parking, but tickets are issued if a car is in the same spot past the two-hour time limit.
This spring, the two-hour limits that are already in force on Main Street and side streets will be extended to Bridge, Craghead, Colquhoun, Newton and Wilson streets.
The first parking item on the IDA’s agenda involves a parcel at 633 Monument St., in the city’s Tobacco Warehouse District, adjacent to the River District.
City staff is requesting approval for the purchase of this 0.17-acre parcel from its owners, Ola Cheek Elder, Edward Elder and Jessica Irene Saunders. There is currently a one-story house on the property.
The parcel is adjacent to other IDA-owned properties, and “the opportunity to acquire 633 Monument St. and combine it with existing IDA parcels will enhance and maximize the current effort to provide public parking,” says the staff report in the meeting’s agenda packet.
The site “is ideally situated for addressing public parking needs in this area of the city,” it says.
The purchase price is $180,000 and closing costs must be paid to the IDA no later than May 30, according to the report.
The other two parking items on the agenda involve selling private parking spaces for commercial and residential use.
Carter Craig Law Office in the River District plans to move from South Union Street to Patton Street and has requested parking spaces closer to the new location for accessibility and safety, according to the report.
The IDA will vote on whether to approve five parking spaces on Patton Street behind the law office building. Lease of these spaces would cost the company about $212 monthly.
The lease would require all employees use the five spaces solely to park passenger vehicles and/or motorcycles. Employees who park in spaces reserved for other use would have their vehicles removed, the lease says.
The third item involves parking for the Morotock Manufacturing Building on Floyd Street in the River District. The building, a former textile mill that was built in 1907, is being revamped into apartments called Morotock Lofts.
The IDA entered into a parking lease with the developer of the project in March to provide up to 50 parking spaces in the under-construction parking deck on the corner of Spring Street and North Union Street. Each leased parking space will cost the landlord $50 per month.
Morotock Lofts is expected to be complete late this year, as is the six-tier parking deck. If Morotock Lofts tenants need parking before the deck is complete, the city and landlord will work together to identify up to 50 spaces within a quarter-mile of the apartment building, according to the lease, which will cost the landlord up to $30 per month per space.
At the meeting, the IDA will decide whether to approve the final lease for this agreement.
Also this week: The Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facilities Authority and the Danville Planning Commission met Monday. The airport commission meets at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The board of zoning appeals meeting scheduled for Thursday is canceled.
In Pittsylvania County, the Staunton River Regional Industrial Facilities Authority, the library board and the board of zoning appeals met Monday.
