2010 Employee Parking Permits for Downtown Danville must be obtained in person at the Danville Police Department, 510 La Gonda Way, Danville. However, you can now complete the permit application and purchasing process in advance online by clicking here.  Once you have completed the online process, you must provide proof of employment, in person, to the Danville Police Department, 510 La Gonda Way, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.  Proof of employment must be in the form of a recent pay stub or business card that can be properly verified. 

Please note that Downtown employee permit parking areas are now divided into three “zones” throughout the Downtown. The “zones” are colored white, red, and blue on the Employee Permit Parking Map  for reference purposes. When purchasing a permit for Zone 2 (“red”) or Zone 3 (“blue”), it is required that your place of business or employment is in the immediate vicinity. All permit holders are eligible to park in Zone 1 (“white”). Please reference the permit parking map when determining your parking zone, as the zones are NOT indicated on parking signs in the field.   

• Permits are $25.00 per year for Zone 1, and $50.00 per year for Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to the Employee Permit Parking Map to select the parking zone in which you wish to park.
• Permits are valid from Jan. 1^st through Dec. 31^st of the year issued. There is no prorating of this fee.
• Proof of employment within the Downtown area is required, and must be verified in person at the Danville Police Department. 
• Employee permit parking is only valid in areas marked “All Day Parking By Permit Only”.
• Employee parking permit stickers shall be placed by affixing it to the inside windshield on the lower left-hand side (driver’s side)

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Employee Permit Parking Map 

Public Parking Map 

Council adopts Downtown Parking Management Plan

The Town Council has approved a new initiative to address parking concerns in the downtown area. At their January 12th meeting, the Council looked at a parking management plan designed to ensure plenty of parking for patrons and consumers by encouraging employees to park at the periphery of the downtown and to not occupy the most desirable consumer parking spaces within the core.
 
Danville Mayor Mike Doyle was very pleased with the Council’s action. He said parking has been an issue they have long studied and he feels the changes will be of long term benefit to the Town.
 
“It’s going to take about a year and a half to implement but once we do it’s going to be great,” he said. “It will be really beneficial to get everyone to come downtown and shop locally.”
 
This plan is one component of the Town’s Economic Development Strategy to promote downtown Danville as a great place to shop, dine and play because - among many other reasons - it has ample and free surface parking. Danville Transportation planners first began examining the parking situation in 2008 as part of a study done to outline where parking congestion is the highest and how best to alleviate those issues.
 
Transportation Director Tai Williams said that she and her staff, along with a consultant, inventoried the available parking spaces in Danville and determined that of the 2,929 spaces for use, 1,358 (46%) of them are public parking. The remaining 54% are private off-street parking.
 
“One of the key assets of downtown Danville is ample, free, surface parking,” she said. “But people have a perception that parking is an issue. We wanted to address that.” She added, “Our number one priority is when someone drives downtown to dine or shop, they have somewhere to park.”
 
Over the past few years, Danville has done much to expand available parking including an expansion of the Clock Tower Parking Lot and the creation of the Front Street Parking Lot, within walking distance of the Library, Community Center, Village Theatre and the Downtown core.
 
The study showed that the current level of parking is sufficient to meet the Town’s needs, however there are “hot spots” of heavy usage during peak periods of the day. The consultant conducted a survey of vehicle licenses to determine who is using the majority of the spots, and it was found that many of the parking spaces are being utilized by employees of the downtown businesses.
 
Transportation officials, along with the Town Council have discussed the issue at length in working to provide alternative all-day parking for the employees that would be situated away from the Downtown core and feasibly located for employees to park and get to work.
 
Under the plan, the time zones for the hourly parking in the downtown would be adjusted to more adequately reflect patron’s needs. In addition, the Employee Parking Permit Program would be modified to reflect a higher fee for permitting for areas located in the “hot spot” zones with higher usage, which would encourage employees to use all-day parking lots that offer all-day parking at lower fees. The new fee structure (click here for a map of the new zones) would not take effect until March, while changes to the hourly parking zones (click here for a map of the new hourly zones) would be implemented over the next 18 months.
 
The plan also includes three programs designed to deal with special circumstances and enforcement of the parking management plan.

• License operators for valet parking and determine where it would be located
• Identify and manage requests for special curb parking and designations
• Adopt a Parking Enforcement Strategy to insure successful implementation