Parking Permits Required in Royal Oak Neighborhoods During Festival
Parking Permits Required in Royal Oak Neighborhoods during Arts, Beats and Eats Festival. Visitors will not be allowed to park in Royal Oak neighborhoods. Neighborhood areas likely to be impacted by visitors to the festival have been designated a permit parking only zone during the event. “We have over 11,000 parking spaces available for festival attendees. There is no reason anyone needs to park in our neighborhoods” said Royal Oak City Manager Donald Johnson.
“We held three meetings with residents near the festival zone” said Johnson. “The number one concern of residents is with festival attendees parking in the neighborhoods. Residents don’t want the extra vehicle traffic on their neighborhood streets. They don’t want to find all of the street parking taken up by visitors. They don’t want the noise or litter or anything else from visitors returning to their cars.”
“We want to protect our neighborhoods and we determined the only practical way to keep festival traffic out of the neighborhoods is to require parking permits.” Vehicles parked on neighborhood streets without a permit are subject to a $50 parking ticket and can be towed. Temporary signs will be posted next week.
The City has mailed two parking permits to over 3,000 residential properties in the permit zone. The permit zone is bounded by 10 Mile on the south, Woodward on the east, Catalpa and Gardenia on the north and Gainsborough, Wayndotte and Mohawk on the east.
Contact: Donald Johnson, City Manager (248) 246-3200
Arts, Beats & Eats website - www.artsabeatseats.com
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