Town Center Parking Plan

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Well-planned and sufficient parking is vital to the success of our Town Center economy and the experience of Town Center patrons, residents, businesses, and visitors. The Mercer Island City Council adopted the Town Center Parking Plan (‘Parking Plan’) on November 21, 2023. The Parking Plan strives to activate Town Center by making parking more functionally available, accessible for different users, and supportive of other options for non-driving travel, like walking and biking, to and around Town Center. The Parking Plan includes strategies and recommendations that will be implemented over time through various City department work plans.

Plan Objectives

The Parking Plan identifies three strategies, with corresponding actions, to improve the Town Center parking system:

  • Manage the on-street parking supply to make parking easier to find, better enforced, and more conducive to parking on and being able to walk to multiple destinations.
  • Improve the convenience and efficiency of parking, using wayfinding and connections, to make parking more apparent and navigable.
  • Expand travel-mode choices through programs and infrastructure improvements that support walking, biking, and taking public transit to increase mobility in Town Center.

Get Involved

The implementation of the Parking Plan will address access and travel options in Town Center for the entire Mercer Island community, today and in the future. Everyone living, working, and visiting Town Center is a key partner in this work. Use this page to get the latest information, share your feedback, and stay up to date on other ways to engage with this work.

Well-planned and sufficient parking is vital to the success of our Town Center economy and the experience of Town Center patrons, residents, businesses, and visitors. The Mercer Island City Council adopted the Town Center Parking Plan (‘Parking Plan’) on November 21, 2023. The Parking Plan strives to activate Town Center by making parking more functionally available, accessible for different users, and supportive of other options for non-driving travel, like walking and biking, to and around Town Center. The Parking Plan includes strategies and recommendations that will be implemented over time through various City department work plans.

Plan Objectives

The Parking Plan identifies three strategies, with corresponding actions, to improve the Town Center parking system:

  • Manage the on-street parking supply to make parking easier to find, better enforced, and more conducive to parking on and being able to walk to multiple destinations.
  • Improve the convenience and efficiency of parking, using wayfinding and connections, to make parking more apparent and navigable.
  • Expand travel-mode choices through programs and infrastructure improvements that support walking, biking, and taking public transit to increase mobility in Town Center.

Get Involved

The implementation of the Parking Plan will address access and travel options in Town Center for the entire Mercer Island community, today and in the future. Everyone living, working, and visiting Town Center is a key partner in this work. Use this page to get the latest information, share your feedback, and stay up to date on other ways to engage with this work.

  • 2024 Town Center Parking Counts

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    Staff from IDAX, a multimodal data collection firm the City uses for transportation data needs, will update parking data in and around Town Center. Data collection will take place in multiple locations on Thursday, May 9, and Saturday, May 11. Collection plans include occupancy of on-street parking, permit capture for the Town Center Parking Permit areas, and bike parking usage.

    This work is being done on behalf of the City to continue studying Town Center parking needs and inform future parking/transportation improvements. IDAX conducted parking inventory and usage counts in June 2022 and June 2023.

  • New Wayfinding Resources for Town Center Parking

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    New wayfinding resources are live on the City website on the Getting Around page. The new resources include:

    • PDF and digital versions of the map of Free Public Parking Options in Town Center,
    • Links to schedules for public transportation options provided by King County Metro and Sound Transit,
    • Details about the Town Center and RPD parking permit programs,
    • Images of the new Parking wayfinding signs installed in Town Center earlier this year,
    • Information about the Mercer Island Park-and-Ride, satellite Park-and-Ride options at Mercer Village (south end QFC), and more.


  • New Parking Signs in Town Center

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    City staff are actively working to improve the efficiency and convenience of parking in Town Center by adding highly visible and consistent signage at and near shared-use lots and garages to help drivers find available public parking. Ten signs, directing drivers to where parking garages are located, were installed on existing streetlights and metal signposts on 76th Ave SE and SE 27th St. Installation of the signs is part of the Town Center Parking Plan recommendation 2a, to improve awareness of and navigation to Town Center’s range of parking options.

  • Town Center Parking Plan Adopted November 2023

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    The Mercer Island City Council adopted the Town Center Parking Plan on November 21, 2023. View meeting agenda materials here(External link). (Refer to item #4 on the Consent Agenda.) Thank you to all the local businesses, Town Center residents, and other community members who participated in the process to develop this Parking Plan!

Page last updated: 30 Apr 2024, 02:42 PM