AUBURN — A plan that would increase monthly parking permits from $35 to $45 and change the uses of some downtown lots will a topic for the City Council on Tuesday night.

Councilors will discuss changes proposed to the city’s parking management plan during their special workshop.

Monday’s normal workshop and business meeting was rescheduled due to Labor Day.

The Police Department has been put in charge of managing the city’s downtown parking, from controlling the lots to selling parking permits. Permits were available during regular business hours at the city treasurer’s office in Auburn Hall. They’ll now be sold at the Police Department’s window in Auburn Hall’s basement.

Police Chief Phil Crowell unveiled a slate of changes at the council’s Aug. 19 meeting that ranged from shifting who can use certain lots to increasing fees. Crowell said his staff now had a better inventory of downtown parking and suggestions about how to allocate it.

The loss of a private Court Street lot, which was converted into a park for Chapman House, and new businesses coming in forced the city to take another look at how it allocates parking.

Auburn has 1,296 spaces — 260 are privately owned and 1,036 are city owned. Those are leased to businesses, sold as parking permits, used for police and city vehicles or as open public parking.

The plan calls for shifting some of the parking uses around, especially in Great Falls Plaza.

For example, the lot at the northern edge of the plaza is reserved for parking for guests of functions at the Hilton Garden Inn. That lot would become open for free two-hour parking and for people purchasing $10 day passes. Hilton’s function parking would move closer to the hotel, across from the Esplanade apartments.

Parking in the lot alongside Turner Street is used for jurors. The city would install a kiosk there, allowing free use by Superior Court jurors and for people who purchase long-term, temporary passes.

Parking in the city’s Mechanics Row garage would shift as well. Police vehicles would take the spaces nearest the ground floor entrance, reserving the ground floor spaces near Auburn Hall for free two-hour parking for day pass users.

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