County solves courthose parking woes

Kootenai County commissioners earmarked $1.323 million in the proposed fiscal 2017 budget to address parking woes on the county’s downtown campus. The suggested solution: Share parking with the city to save money but meet multiple needs.

The future parking lot on city-owned property would include 146 spaces for cars and seven spots for RVs along with traffic signals at Garden Avenue and Northwest Boulevard across from the county’s campus. The traffic signals would allow pedestrians to safely cross the busy stretch.

“This means that we don’t need to build a parking garage,” Commissioner Dan Green said Tuesday. “Working with the city, we’d add the parking that we need.”

The parking lot would be built next year just north of the 119-lot parking project that is nearing completion next to Memorial Field/ Brian Walker , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Sounds like the proverbial old win-win situation. Thoughts?