Posted Oct 21, 2011, 3:31 PM
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The free parking on a portion of Commerce Street is now gone and in its place will be decorative concrete.
The free parking in the center of Commerce Street that is north of Madison Avenue will remain for the time being. The changes are meant to improve aesthetics and make the area, which is part of the city's entertainment district, safer for pedestrians.
There has also been a problem with delivery trucks backing up traffic, since there was no designated loading and unloading area.
The city intends to make up for the loss of spaces by turning the parallel street parking into angled, metered parking, which will happen on both Commerce and Tallapoosa streets. The city's parking lot on the Tallapoosa Street side of the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center will also be available for free public parking after 5 p.m. as of today.
There will not be any net loss of parking, even with removing the illegal parking in the center.
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