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Tbilisi City Hall has announced plans to sell land for parking lots for just GEL 1. City Hall has already selected 183 locations around the city, which they will offer for the symbolic price of 1 Georgian Lari to build a parking lot on the site.

Andria Basilaia, Head of Economic Development Department of Tbilisi City Hall, met with businessmen on June 28 to announce the call for tenders. The deadline for tender submissions expires on July 15.

Tbilisi suffers from a notorious lack of parking, leading to cars parked on sidewalks, and blocking entrances and wheelchair ramps. The lack of parking combined with high car ownership rate also leads to extra time driving searching for parking, which costs the city economic productivity and releases more pollution into the air.

In April, 2017, City Hall under former Mayor Davit Narmania planned to create ten multi-level parking areas. Narmania said that the parking areas would be built in all the overcrowded districts of Tbilisi, including Station Square, Marjanishvili Avenue, Pushkin Square, Dinamo Arena and Tbilisi City Hall. Nine were planned underground, and one above ground in order to preserve architecture and green spaces. These plans did not come to fruition under Narmania. Kaladze’s government released a call for proposals to develop the concept, but no companies responded to the call, perhaps due to the technical difficulty of constructing multistory underground parking facilities.

In March, Kaladze ended Tbilisi’s contract with the parking regulatory company C.T. Park, which had exclusive rights to manage parking in the capital. Parking management services were subsequently taken on by Tbilisi Transport Company.

By Samantha Guthrie

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