The City Council has approved changes converting the Park and Fly and Park and Go surface parking lots near the airport from temporary to permanent status, allowing the operations to continue for up to 30 years, according to a city administrator update at a recent council meeting.
Administrator update revealed City Council recently approved changes converting the Park and Fly/Park and Go surface parking lots from temporary to permanent status for up to 30 years, with roughly 25% of the sites required to be set aside for development by around 2030 (though no groundbreaking deadline).
Park and Go covers roughly 12.5 acres with about 1,500 parking stalls, while Park and Fly totals around 2,100 stalls across surface and structured parking. The push to change their status came through a privately initiated application from Rosa Development Company, LLLP, which asked the city to allow the existing lots as a conditional use in the CX-2 zoning district and to drop remote airport parking as an interim use in the HX-R district.
The city held a public hearing on the request on March 23, 2026, and published the resulting ordinance on April 2, 2026, after the request had been delayed once at the applicant's own ask. The measure sets new performance standards for the two facilities rather than leaving them under the old temporary framework.
The catch: roughly 25% of each site still has to be set aside for eventual redevelopment, matching a three-acre carve-out in the ordinance for the roughly 12.5-acre Park and Go property. City staff had pushed for that land to be ready for development by the end of 2029, while the Planning Commission argued for more breathing room, recommending a 2034 deadline instead.
That means the lots keep running as parking for now, with a firmer legal footing than the interim permits gave them, while a slice of each property stays earmarked for whatever gets built there once a developer actually comes forward.