What's Happening in Fayetteville, GA…

Parking is often difficult in any metropolitan area, but a solution may be in sigh in Fayetteville.

City officials have been trying to make people visiting downtown aware there are hundreds of parking spaces available for free. Soon, there could be even more located near the Old Courthouse.

Brian Wismer, the city's community development director, recently showed members of the city council drawings of a concept called ‘reverse-angle parking’. These spaces would be placed on the Old Courthouse's south side, where there are currently nine spaces in which drivers have to parallel park. Wismer says the new concept could almost double that, to 16 spaces.

The new spaces would be angled to the sidewalk, and drivers would pull up and then back into their chosen space, rather than parallel park. They would have much better visibility and not have to try and back out into traffic. Wismer noted that because of the way the roads are constructed around the courthouse, it would not be necessary for drivers to rush to back into the spaces.

Each member of the city council verbally gave Wismer the go-ahead to develop the plan further, and present it again in future, when it could be approved officially.

City officials might work with a postcard printing company to devise a card to mail to residents when the project is finished, informing them of the change.