City Officials Rethink Parking Enforcement

At a meeting last week, city officials admitted that they
did not do a sufficient job in informing the community about the end of the
free two-hour parking meters in downtown Lake Geneva. The City Council approved Mayor Sheldon
Shepstone’s executive order to allow free parking again in certain areas,
including on Cook Street behind the theater, on Center street, and the area in
front of the Library and park; free parking in these areas will be available
until April 30^th.

When the issue was discussed last fall, the initial solution
from members of the City Council was to increase the parking ticket fine from
$10 to $15, but city officials later opted for meter enforcement starting in
January. Now that so many complaints
have arisen from residents and business owners, city officials are
reconsidering the decision. They will
now need to draft an ordinance amendment for the current parking regulations;
this would then have to be approved before the two free hours of parking is
reinstated fully in downtown if that is their decision.

Read more on this Lake Geneva downtown parking issue at
Lakegenevanews.net.