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Jan 30, 2024

End to Free Downtown Parking Brings Changes

Starting March 1, on-street parking in downtown Leesburg will convert to the

Starting March 1, on-street parking in downtown Leesburg will convert to the ParkMobile payment system.

Starting Wednesday visitors to downtown Leesburg will find a different parking experience.

March 1 marks the end of the town's free parking promotion that began before the holidays last November. That annual fee-waiver period was extended because of renovations in the Town Hall parking garage that reduced the number of available spaces.

While work continues in the garage, the town will reinstate fee collections starting Wednesday morning along with restricting use of spaces in the underground section to those with monthly parking permits. The first two hours of parking in the garage will be free.

Collections also will resume for on-street parking with bigger changes in order.

While the parking meters have been covered for more than three months, in recent days they also have been replaced with signs providing instruction for using the town's app-based parking payment system, ParkMobile. Starting this week, all on-street parking fees will be paid electronically—either through the app, a text, an online payment link—or by making a phone call. Also, the town will resume enforcement of the two-hour maximum parking limit, which is intended to ensure the spaces turnover throughout the day. Those with handicapped placards or license plates may park for up to four hours.

On-street parking limits and fees are enforced from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.

Town Public Information Officer Kara Rodriguez acknowledged that the changes may not be easy for everyone at the onset, but said the majority of people paying on-street parking fees already have been using the ParkMobile app.

"We have hope for as seamless as possible transition," she said.

For those unable to pay using a phone, the town suggests using the Town Hall garage, where credit cards are accepted, or one of the free-parking lots in town, the Liberty Street lot or the Pennington lot and garage on Church Street near the courts complex.

More information on downtown parking is available here.

Nothing like limousine leftists discriminating against poor people who don't own a cell phone to call to pay, let alone pay online. Typical.

I vowed never to return to Reston Towne Center after wrangling with their parking app. Many businesses have closed due to parking fees and perhaps, a cumbersome app. I'm disappointed that Leesburg has re instituted paid parking on top of all the other fees (taxes) we are charges. Even our 2 metro stations are the ONLY ones in the entire WMATA network to charge for weekend parking. Outrageous

End to Downtown visits send to end Wednesday March 1.

So much easier than pulling a couple quarters out of my pocket. Thanks for making the process of parking my car dependent on an internet connection. I'm not even sure why we pay for parking on tax payer funded roads, doesn't make much sense.

Seems like an online-only option violates something... What about old people or those who aren't tech savvy?

I wonder how much the town makes from parking fees and whether or not it's worth it to collect them.

They will have to park on the outskirts of the town and walk. It's *perfectly* elitist of Leesburg's "leaders" isn't it?

Politicians ann bureaucrats can never simplify anything, only make it more complex. That'll surely encourage folks to come to Leesburg...not

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