Sewickley leaders weighing pros, cons of parking options

Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 9:00p.m. Updated 23 hours ago

Within the next five years, Sewickley will see some kind of parking development, Mayor Brian Jeffe said.

What remains to be seen is whether that development will be a parking garage and whether it will be developed privately or publicly or an extension of an existing flat-surface lot.

Nothing is going to happen for some time, Jeffe said in an interview with the Sewickley Herald days after borough leaders hosted a public meeting to discuss a parking study made public last month.

That study completed by Khurshid Hoda, a consultant with Chicago-based Kimley-Horn and Associates at a cost of $25,700 determined Sewickley will need 300 additional parking spaces over the next five years to meet demand.

Hoda said his results took into account possible future developments, including a two-screen movie theater complex nonprofit group Village Theater Co. is seeking to build on Walnut Street and a nearby proposed 30,000-square-foot office building.

Those proposed developments have the borough at somewhat of a crossroads by our own rules, Jeffe said.

Municipal laws require developers address parking needs based on square footage of developments.

With the two proposed developments, we're tapped out, Jeffe said.

We have to address parking, he said.

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Sewickley leaders weighing pros, cons of parking options