Parking Enforcement, Paid Parking and Parking Program Restarting

Published on July 10, 2020

Media Contact:
Kellie Stickney
Communications Manager
kstickney@kirklandwa.gov
(425) 979-6562

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Parking enforcement, paid parking and the Downtown Employee Parking Program will all restart in downtown Kirkland on Friday, July 17.

With King County entering Phase II of the Governor’s Safe Start plan, Kirkland is seeing more visitors returning to our downtown to work, shop and play. This means on-street parking, surface parking lots and the downtown parking garage are once again filling up with people’s cars. In order to manage the growing parking demand, the City will be restarting parking enforcement, paid parking and the Downtown Employee Parking Program, all three of which had been suspended to support businesses during the Governor’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order, which ended on May 31, 2020.

In order to make sure that parking is available for patrons of downtown businesses the City will be restarting enforcement of time limits throughout downtown, as well as restarting paid parking in the Lakeshore Parking Lot at Marina Park and the Lake and Central Parking Lot. Parking time limits have been enforced in the Lakeshore Parking Lot at Marina Park for approximately the last month. The City also wants to help ensure that employee parking is available for people working in the central business district, so the City will be restarting the downtown employee parking program. This program provides designated parking areas for employees working in the central business district.

For more information on downtown parking or the Downtown Employee Parking Program visit the Parking page on the City of Kirkland’s website.