In addition, there will be a 290-car underground parking garage with about 90 spaces for building residents, the rest for municipal parking.

You should park in the municipal parking, not the private lot.

Street or municipal parking in rear lot.

Turn right for two short blocks until the entrance, on the left side, to free municipal parking.

The project will involve "upgrading roads, walks, street lamps, municipal parking, landscaping, storefronts and putting utilities underground," she said.

Yet the coins themselves reveal much about the dizzying diversity of people who use the city's parking meters, and about the changing dynamics of municipal parking.

The plan, which also involves building a new combined municipal and residential parking garage in cooperation with the town's parking authority, has not yet come before town planners.

Mr. Natale said he realized he needed a place with ample municipal parking, and other features as well.

Tall trees shade the harborside lawn where picnicking concertgoers spread their blankets; municipal parking is nearby.

Today the sections are stacked in a municipal parking lot six blocks inland from the beach.