Changes Coming To Bend’s Downtown Parking Garage
The City of Bend Parking Services Division is installing an access control system in the Centennial Parking Garage in downtown Bend to help improve safety and simplify payment options for parking customers.
The new access control system, which is a moving arm that raises and lowers to restrict vehicles from entering or exiting, will limit entry into the parking garage to paying parking customers. This will help limit the number of vehicles and individuals accessing the garage and participating in unsafe or unwanted behaviors, such as reports of individuals racing vehicles through the garage. The current three-hour free parking in the garage will be replaced with a new merchant validation program where participating downtown businesses can continue to provide free parking for their customers and encourage shopping at local small businesses.
(Update: Adding city staff member, spa manager comments)
The city plans to get a new gate operating sometime next week
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) A plan to install a parking gate at the Centennial Parking Plaza has been in the works for a while, but it became a priority this year after an increase in trespassing complaints. That is something that residents, business owners have really complained a lot about, Marx said Thursday. That s our top priority.
The garage s free three-hour parking format will be replaced with a downtown merchant validation system and will have a number of technological advancements.