Have a favorite parking spot on the street in Falcon Heights that you use every State Fair? Well, if you're headed out there this year, parking on the street may cost you for the first time.
Earlier this year the Falcon Heights City Council approved a one-year contract with Park Mobile for hundreds of street spaces to charge $25 per spot.
Those will be primarily in the northeast quadrant of Falcon Heights, roughly bounded by Snelling and Hamline avenues, and Roselawn and Iowa avenues.
"Usually if you go two blocks over, you have to pay anywhere, especially if it's like private lawn parking in St. Paul or private business parking, more like $50 a spot," City Administrator Jack Linehan explained. "So people would be really willing to drive around hunting for spots. So our hope is to kind of right size the demand."
Linehan says there won't be meters but the system will be user friendly.
"They're not gonna be marked stalls, so it's basically if you find a spot you just follow the signage and pay," says Linehan. "And so, you know, it all depends on how people park. So anywhere from 800 to 1000 is what we we we anticipate."
The Great Minnesota Get Together is now less than two weeks away, a very early start to the "end of summer" in Minnesota. The Fair starts August 21st and runs through Labor Day, September 1st.