Aaron Reyes, of Kingston, stopped quickly on North Front Street to talk to Spectrum News about the challenge of parking in Uptown Kingston.

It had to be quick.

"Right now, I think I'm parked illegally," Reyes said, as he finished an errand and was about to try to beat a parking enforcement officer back to his double-parked car.

Reyes said some extra relief, other than a parking lot recently opened on North Front Street, is needed.

"I'd like to see another parking lot," Reyes said, "or perhaps a garage or something like that."

The City of Kingston is trying to advance a deal with a developer that would create, among other amenities, about 250 public parking spaces. Right now, though, it is not pretty.

In front of a podiatrist's office on Fair Street, a handful of spaces were just switched from two-hour parking to parking without time restrictions. Fourth Ward Alderwoman Rita Worthington wrote twice to the public works director, asking for those two-hour parking signs to be put back up.

During Monday's lunch hour, multiple elderly patients were seen struggling through the rain, hobbling to the office door from parking spaces from around the corner since spaces close to the practice were occupied.

"Apparently, the practice is losing patients because there is no place to park," Worthington wrote in her latest email.

"Can you tell me why they were removed?" she asked in the first email, nine days earlier. "I don't recall anything coming before council on this."

Spectrum News reached out to council members and administrators with questions on how seemingly minor, but impactful, parking rule changes come about. No one responded to those questions.

The complaint from the podiatrist's office and several other complaints will be addressed at a meeting of the city's Public Safety Commission on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.