Implementation of a plan to add on-street parking spaces in the Sisters commercial district was delayed February 11 until the city council holds a workshop February 18 to discuss the future of the parking district concept.

The plan, if approved, will use revenue generated by the current parking district ordinance fees and assessments.

Mayor Dave Moyer said the parking development plan identifies 43 locations in the parking district in downtown Sisters. Most of the sites will require widening the paved surface of streets and painting parking space marks.

Some locations also will require the construction of catch basins, curbs and sidewalks.

Action on the plan was delayed after Sisters businessman Ray Buselli asked the council to not vote on the plan until after the parking district ordinances are studied. In an earlier council meeting Mayor Moyer and Buselli had questioned the value of a parking district.

This suggests the council may consider rescinding the ordinances establishing fees, assessments and parking space development in the commercial district downtown.

City Administrator Barbara Warren told the council that the moneys collected so far will "have to be spent anyway." The parking district fund currently amounts to $106,993.

Buselli, who had been on the committee that studied the parking district concept in 1992, suggested there may be other uses for the funds. He said the concept of the parking district in early 1992 seemed logical then, "but now I'm not sure."

The motion to delay action on the development plan was made by Councilor Gary Miller who commented that he could "see no hurry."