Put In Your Nickel’s Worth On Parking Meters’ Return

The Spokane City Council will hold a public hearing tonight on a proposal to bring parking meters back to downtown.

The city removed about 300 meters three years ago, hoping to attract more shoppers.

City staff members say most of the free-parking spots are taken instead by downtown workers.

Bringing back the meters is part of a larger proposal planned by business owners to revitalize downtown.

Also tonight, the council will:

Consider hiring a Missoula forestry consultant to inventory 100,000 trees that line Spokane streets.

The one-year contract with Natural Path Forestry Consultants would cost $36,300.

It is part of a $125,000 effort to catalog and rate the condition of every cityowned tree, many of which are nearly 100 years old and unhealthy.

Decide whether to approve a 50-lot subdivision at 37th and Freya, and a 39-lot subdivision near the intersection of Lincoln and Five Mile roads.

The North Side subdivision is exempt from a moratorium the council placed on Five Mile Prairie development last May.

That moratorium expires Tuesday.

Consider buying two residential lots at 5428 E. Commerce to create a small neighborhood park near Felts Field airport.

City staff members will brief the council on agenda items at 5:30 p.m. in the fifth-floor conference room in City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

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MEETING The council meeting starts at 6 p.m. at City Hall.