By Cecilia Chan | Gilbert Sun
Gilbert must do a better job of managing the parking in the Heritage District and look for additional funding sources for its public garages because more will be needed downtown, according to a consultant.
“You have plenty of parking today,” Andrew Vidor of Walker Consultants told Town Council in a special meeting recently. “As development continues to ‘densify,’ you’re going to need more infrastructure to support that.
“If we developed all the projects that are in that Heritage District Master Plan – the Vaughn Ventilator and some other projects – you are going to need 2,100 more parking spaces,” Vidor said. “That’s twice the amount of parking structures you have today.”
