During the January 24th, 2018 Council Meeting, Jenkintown Borough Council approved a contract with ParkMobile, an online parking payment system. The ParkMobile program will allow residents and visitors to conveniently pay through their cellphones, in hopes of eliminating the practice and anxiety of having to ‘feed the meter’ when guests would rather be able to enjoy their stay in town watching a movie, shopping, or dining without the additional reason to feel worried. We’re excited to announce that Jenkintown Borough is on schedule to launch this new online payment option with ParkMobile in November 2018. More information will be distributed once the website goes live.
Additionally, in 2017 a parking study was completed by the Montgomery County Planners & the Jenkintown Borough Administration per the request of Borough Council. In analyzing the results of all research, it was determined that the current parking fees and rate structure, which had not been updated in decades, was no longer sufficient to support its current operating costs. In fact, it was determined that the costs to provide parking within the Borough and surrounding Boroughs & Townships, have risen considerably.
Based on the feedback provided from other municipalities and the findings of the parking study, it was decided during the November 27th, 2017 Borough Council meeting that Jenkintown Borough should increase the parking rate from twenty-five cents an hour to twenty-five cents every half-hour. The implementation of this change, which included replacing individual street meters, signage, reprogramming all street meters and having software created to reprogram all three parking kiosk meters in the public parking lots, took a total of eight months to complete. We are now ready to completely transition, and as a result, all parking meters and kiosks are scheduled to reflect the revised parking fee in November 2018.
Finally, parking will still be FREE on Sundays throughout the entire year. Holiday Parking Rates (Free on Wednesdays after 4:00 PM and free on Saturdays & Sundays) are set to start this year in coordination with Small Business Saturday (November 24th, 2018) and are set to continue through Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019.
Thank you all for all you do to help make Jenkintown Borough the special place that it is!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Borough hall by calling 215-885-0700 or stopping in.