Cooperstown Parking Permits

Will Go Into Effect Tomorrow

COOPERSTOWN – Traffic was steady at the Village Clerk’s office at 22 Main St. this afternoon with residents making last-minute purchases of summer parking permits.

The permits go into effect Saturday, the start of Memorial Day Weekend, and allow permit holders to park on village streets anywhere where paid parking is in place.

For now, the permits are not valid in the Doubleday Field lot, where all-day paid parking it being encouraged.  (However, the Village Board is considering allowing permit holders to park in the Doubleday lot 4-6 p.m.  A public hearing on the law is planned at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the board’s next meeting.)

The first permit is $25, and subsequent permits per household are $15.   Tickets for illegal parking begin at $35.

Village Clerk Teri Barown said 372 have been sold so far.  Last year, a total of 800 were sold.