Planning, Building, and Development Director Tim Dempsey recommended the city initiate the policy for the month of July.

“We’ve been doing a lot of work towards enhancing the business climate downtown during construction,” Dempsey said.

Dempsey said a pilot program is a way to encourage more residents to visit downtown.

“It has a fairly significant financial impact if you look at over the course of a fiscal year,” he said.

City Manager George Lahanas said the timing is perfect because people have an opportunity to see the city’s progress with new developments.

One motivation for the policy is to limit on-street parking in areas where roadways are too narrow for safe, two-way vehicular travel.

Traffic orders considered alongside the policy include eliminating on-street parking on seven streets throughout the city with a curb, gutter and width less than 24 feet, as well as a one-sided parking restriction in parts of the Bailey Neighborhood.

Residents are encouraged to reach out to Department of Public Works Design Engineer Andrew Bisaha for additional questions about implementation information.

Feedback on the pilot program can be directed to the city directly through an online comment form.

“With the ongoing construction and the summer population decline that comes with being a college town, this is a time of year when downtown businesses can really use some extra support and patronage," East Lansing Parking Administrator Caleb Sharrow said in a press release.

Editor's note: This story was updated on July 1 at 12:54 p.m. This story previously stated that there were talks of the 30-minute parking initiative being delayed. There weren't talks of the 30-minute parking being delayed, but there were talks of another parking initiative being delayed.