The City of Colorado Springs Parking Enterprise released its final parking and curb management plan, providing potential strategies and tactics to support the business community, residents, and visitors to Colorado Springs.
The plan, available at ColoradoSprings.gov/Parking, guides the City to actively manage the curbside, increase off-street parking productivity, embrace and leverage technology, and create a comprehensive customer experience, through overarching strategies and specific tactics to improve and enhance the City’s parking operations.
The plan provides a framework for understanding the state of the Enterprise managed parking system while detailing possible future parking and curb use improvements in Downtown Colorado Springs and Old Colorado City.
“This plan provides the Parking Enterprise with a framework to consider possible short- and long-term projects that provide increased access to businesses and institutions, for residents and visitors.” said Alyssa Alt, the City’s Parking Enterprise Manager. “Of course, all of these possible projects are budget dependent as we strategically deploy the Enterprise’s financial resources in support of economic vitality in Downtown and Old Colorado City.”
The plan is the result of a 10-month process that included an assessment of the current on- and off-street parking conditions in Downtown and Old Colorado City. This includes a vast amount of data gathering and analysis, which is shared in the final plan. The process also included two community surveys and two community stakeholder sessions. The draft plan was released for further public feedback during April 2025, with that additional feedback incorporated in the final version.
Alt noted that some items in the plan have already been implemented. Those include changing parking enforcement hours to better reflect use; offering free off-street, garage or lot, parking in City-owned facilities on Sundays; loading and delivery zones in the Downtown area; a parking public information campaign; as well as forthcoming replacement of outdated parking meters with new meters with improved technology.
The City of Colorado Springs’ Parking System Enterprise provides public parking spaces as a key element to support the downtown and surrounding activity centers. Public parking is an economic development tool used to attract private investment into the community and manage urban growth. As an enterprise, it utilizes a self-sustaining financial model, meaning no taxpayer money or general fund dollars can be used to support the Enterprise.