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Parking Upgrades Set To Come To Downtown New Rochelle

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – Parking is going to get much easier for motorists and shoppers frequenting downtown New Rochelle, as the city's parking management overhaul continues.

Downtown parking is set to get "smarter" in New Rochelle.

Downtown parking is set to get "smarter" in New Rochelle.

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New technology introduced by LAZ Parking - the company overseeing every aspect of the municipal parking transition – will soon see new terminals and mobile applications featuring “find my car” software, enabling patrons to pay and extend their parking stay at the “smarter” machines and through their mobile devices.

LAZ has provided the City Council with more than $700,000 in new technology that will accelerate several initiatives, including pay-by-cell functionality, online permitting and license plate number enforcement. There are also plans for valet parking at appropriate New Rochelle locations in the near future.

 

The updated service begins with a “Pay by Plate Program,” which will entail parking patrons to enter their license plate number or parking lot zone number instead of space numbers at machines in downtown garages. Parkers will then have the ability to pay through their cell phones, as well as paying violations right at the meter the same day they are issued, sparing the mailing of tickets and payments.

“The innovative technologies we are implementing with Parkmobile and Cale America (who helped establish the technology) will create a completely new parking experience for the city,” LAZ Regional Vice President Eric Siskind said about the initiative. “We’re looking forward to providing a better, faster, greener and overall easier parking experience for everyone who parks in New Rochelle.”

According to New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, even as the city promotes its green initiatives, it is important that the heart of the city’s business district have a functional parking infrastructure.

“Over the years, the city has worked toward (improved parking options) by upgrading parking lots, installing better meters and adding new spaces on the street,” he noted. “It’s been an incremental process with modest improvements building on each other.”

While the city doesn’t stand to benefit financially from the parking overhaul immediate, Bramson said it should benefit New Rochelle immeasurably in the long term.

“From a narrow fiscal perspective, this arrangement is basically a break-even proposition, with LAZ’s contract funded out of parking revenue, not property tax,” he added. “More broadly; however, by providing shoppers, diners and residents with a positive experience, we can certainly help attract investment and strengthen our economy.”

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