TROY – The number of metered parking spots in the city could at least double by June as the municipality as downtown grows, a city development official said.

The city has 1,620 parking spaces on the street, but only 174 are metered, said Cheryl Kennedy, the city’s economic development coordinator.

City officials have been working with LAZ Parking, which has operations in Schenectady, about Troy’s parking issues.

Those issues include: Parking meters, the use of the city’s downtown garages at Fifth Avenue and State Street, the surface parking lot on First Street known as the Y lot, parking enforcement, pricing of parking spots and turning over spots, Kennedy said.

A discussion about public parking will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Troy Innovation Garage, 24 Fourth St. More meetings are planned.

Former Mayor Harry Tutunjian’s administration introduced the current parking meter setup, and the city never expanded the number of metered spaces.

Placement of the meters is another matter: Broadway has parking meters on one side of the street and none on the other side. Congress Street across from Russell Sage College between First and Second streets has parking meters, but Congress Street between Second and Third streets doesn’t.

There’s been a push for a residential parking permit system downtown, but that has faded.

The number of meters and locations is under study. Kennedy said the number of metered spaces could reach at least 340 by the end of the second quarter of 2018.

Local restaurateur Jim Scully, who owns Bacchus Wood Fired Pizza on Second Street, said the city might want to wait before acting on parking. The proposed development of 1 Monument Square with 11 movie theaters will affect parking downtown.

“We might have jumped the gun,” Scully said about any changes to the city’s parking situation without considering the 1 Monument Square project. The movie theater proposal has been halted by a pending lawsuit.

The city has a parking study, but Kennedy said it needs to be updated.