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DOWNTOWN PARKING REPORTS |
Downtown Parking Workshop with City Council - Nov. 7, 2024
 This City Council Workshop will include primary findings from the Walker Consultants Study from May 2024. The City's next steps provide options of upgrading to new technology, permit improvement, enforcement, mobile pay, and ordinance, hour and pricing adjustments. FREE parking nights and weekend continues!
Downtown Parking Study - May 10, 2024
 The City is taking steps to improve downtown parking and mobility – and planning for future parking needs.
To gather input from stakeholders, hundreds of downtown residents, employees, patrons and property owners participated last year in a City-sponsored survey to provide feedback on what is going well, how parking is used now, and what the needs are for getting around in downtown Knoxville. Survey topics included affordability, convenience, parking location preferences, and quality of parking options.
The City also is working with a consultant, Walker Consultants, to assess downtown parking and provide recommendations.
Click on the link below to read Walker Consultants' report, which City staff will be evaluating. The recommendations are just one of many preliminary steps being taken as the City updates and improves its parking services.
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DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE PARKING
The Downtown Knoxville website provides a database of parking locations and relevant information about on-street parking, residential parking, information for bicyclists, and more.
DowntownKnoxville.org/Parking Website
DOWNTOWN PARKING MAP
Map shows parking options in Downtown Knoxville.
Downtown Parking Map [PDF]
DOWNTOWN STOP-N-GO
Started in October 2023, 10 new Downtown Stop-n-Go parking spaces went in to effect on Wall Avenue, which fronts the north end of Market Square downtown. These spaces, designated strategically throughout downtown to support businesses and their patrons, allow people to turn on their vehicle’s flashers and park for free for 15 minutes.
Downtown Stop-n-Go Info
On Aug. 2, 2021, the City converted 11 downtown on-street metered parking spaces at six locations from 2-hour to free 15-minute parking. The “Downtown Stop-n-Go” designated areas are located at South Gay Street and Wall Avenue; South Gay and Union Avenue; the 700 block of South Gay; South Central Street and Willow Avenue; Union and Market Street; Clinch Avenue west of Market Street; and West Church Avenue and Walnut Street.
Motorists using the 15-minute spaces should activate their vehicle flashers when parking there. Public Building Authority parking enforcement officers will write citations if motorists violate the 15-minute maximum time that a vehicle may occupy one of the designated spaces or if the flashers are not activated.
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PARKING METERS
Parking Meters are in effect Monday through Saturday throughout downtown, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Gay Street between Summit Hill Drive and Hill Avenue, and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. everywhere else. Short-term meters charge $1.50 an hour, with a two-hour limit. Long-term meters (on the Gay Street Viaduct and along Depot Avenue and South Central Street) charge 30 cents an hour, with a 10-hour limit. Meters are enforced by the Public Building Authority. In addition to its downtown enforcement, PBA enforces meters in the Cumberland Avenue District, between White Avenue and Lake Avenue from 17th Street west to the railroad tracks from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
Parking Meters Info
SEVIER AVE. CORRIDOR PARKING
Where Do I Park? The restaurants, shops and breweries along Sevier Avenue are increasingly popular. Did you know there are about 175 parking spaces in the immediate area – and another 380 spaces within about a 1/3-mile walking distance?
Sevier Ave. Corridor Parking Map [PDF]
MARKET SQUARE, STATE STREET & LOCUST STREET GARAGES
Parking is FREE at the City's Market Square (
406 Walnut St.), State Street Garage (
520 State St.) and Locust Street Garage (
540 Locust St.) after 6 p.m. on weekdays and throughout the weekend - except for specific special events. Normal weekday rates are $1 an hour.
PBA Parking Info at KnoxParking.org
KNOXVILLE CIVIC AUDITORIUM & COLISEUM
Parking is available at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum facilities (
500 Howard Baker, Jr., Ave.) from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday for only $15 a month or $5 per day
(starting July 2016). You can ride KAT from the Coliseum to the City-County Building (runs every 7-8 min.) or get off at the stop closest to your destination.
Knoxville Civic Auditorium/Coliseum Parking Info
COMMERCIAL PARKING PROVIDERS
SP+ Parking, 865-525-8438
Premier Parking of Tennessee, 865-441-2553 / 865-633-0350
Republic Parking System, 423-265-3218
PBA MONTHLY PARKING
To purchase monthly parking or to get info about monthly parking spaces within City-owned garages (
not City County Building) and other downtown garages, contact PBA at 865-215-2434.
PBA Monthly Parking Info
PARKING PERMITS
Often there is a need within the downtown area to reserve or remove parking spaces for activities that may not abide by the posted parking regulations. Examples of these activities include, but are not limited to moving, delivery & removal of goods, construction activities, performance of specialized business tasks, locating of temporary storage units, locating of construction equipment, general construction, special event activities, etc. Without this type of permit the requestor would be seen as a violator and could be subject to ticketing or subsequently being towed.
Parking Permits Info
PARKOPEDIA APP
Parkopedia.com offers a free phone app that reports data from sensors at the entrances to City-owned downtown garages. So you can see, in real-time, how many parking spaces are available at each garage. If State Street Garage or Market Square Garage is full, you'll know to head to the Locust Street Garage, or the City County Building Garage - or park at the Civic Coliseum and ride the free KAT trolley to downtown and Old City destinations.
Parkopedia App for Knoxville
GAME DAY TRAFFIC & PARKING
Sporting events at the University of Tennessee play a big part of living in Knoxville. Whether you are a Knoxville resident rooting for the Big Orange or trapped in the traffic patterns caused by Big Orange fans, you can't avoid the University of Tennessee and its events. Gathered here are links to traffic patterns for football games, parking maps and rates, and more!
Game Day Traffic and Parking Info
KNOXVILLE AREA TRANSIT (KAT)
KAT is the City of Knoxville’s public transportation system, operating buses across the city. KAT carries around 3 million passengers each year and their 20 fixed routes reach over 80% of the City of Knoxville’s entire population within half a mile.
KAT Connecting Options
PARKING TICKETS
Parking tickets received in the City of Knoxville are handled by City Court.
Parking Tickets & City Court Info
IMPOUNDMENT LOT INFO
Vehicles in the City limits are towed to the Impoundment Lot at
Vice Mayor Jack Sharp Rd. in East Knoxville. Approximately 6,000 vehicles a year are processed through this lot. You must bring proof of insurance, a Government issued picture ID, a licensed driver, and proof of vehicle ownership to Impoundment Lot to retrieve your vehicle.
Impoundment Lot Info
Parking is allowed on most residential streets and some collector arterial streets within the City of Knoxville. See Chapter 17 of the Knoxville City Code for parking and traffic regulations. Unless a parked vehicle violates one of the regulations in the City Code or is parked in a signed or yellow-curb No Parking Zone, it is legally parked on a city street.