Parking Payment-in-Lieu OK’d for 624 Church St.
A proposed residential development at 624 Church St. in downtown Ann Arbor – a 13- or 14-story, 83-unit apartment building with approximately 181 beds – will be able to provide 42 spaces of required parking by contracting for the spaces in the public parking system. That’s instead of building the spaces on site as part of the project.
The authorization to work out the arrangement came on a vote taken at the Oct. 3, 2012 meeting of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority board. The DDA manages the city’s public parking system under a contract with the city.
Ann Arbor’s “contribution in lieu of parking” program was authorized by the city council on April 2, 2012. That program allows essentially two options: (1) … [Full Story]