Parking

Our neighborhood businesses have reported that they have difficulty with vehicles used for illegal purposes parking in spaces that are otherwise meant for customers and employees.

Much of our neighborhood’s streets have unimproved right-of-way without ADA-compliant sidewalks and paved on-street parking stalls. In these locations, the City of Everett does not manage the parking as public parking, rather deferring parking management to the adjacent business and property owner.

These adjacent businesses need to use state-sanctioned towaway signage to enforce their desire for only customers and employees to use the parking. As a result, parking enforcement can be quite poor. In addition, when a non-compliant vehicle is abandoned, the business owner ends up with the initial expense of getting it towed.

In December 2022, the Everett City Council approved the establishment of a business improvement area (BIA) for the Everett Station District. With funding from the BIA, the ESDA will create consistent towaway signage that businesses can opt into. The BIA will also utilize the Neighborhood Street Ambassador program to surveil and report back any noncompliant vehicles or suspicious activity.

The City of Everett and ESDA are currently in the activation phase of the BIA. We will develop the parking signage on a similar timeline and will provide more information about how they can opt into the parking program at that time.

Along with parking signage, ESDA is supporting participating ESDA BIA businesses and property owners that opt-in to EPD trespass enforcement by purchasing and distributing coroplast trespass signage.