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Downtown Clinton Parking Rules To Be Discussed

Downtown parking rules may be changing again soon.

Doug Graves, owner of Graves Stationers on the downtown square came before the Clinton City Council Monday evening to discuss the parking situation. Graves claims his customers are getting parking violations and in turn it is hurting the business of the downtown merchants.

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Graves says the parking issues will eventually force the downtown merchants customers to go elsewhere because they do not want to receive a parking violation. He says they need to be encouraging people to bring their business downtown, not discouraging them.

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There are two 15-minute parking spaces the city has in place from when First National Bank had a downtown location and Graves says those spaces are being monitored and suggests maybe eliminating those or extending the time. He feels people that come to the downtown area to do business do a good job of policing themselves.

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The City will most likely look into meeting with downtown merchants on adjusting the downtown parking time limits or even potentially removing the 15-minute parking signs.

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