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The Capitol Preservation Board has turned the Capitol Hill parking conundrum over to a task force. Board members - including state legislators and representatives of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. - met this week to consider plans that include making state workers pay for their parking spaces, a shuttle-bus system and, eventually, parking structures to ease the parking crunch around the Capitol. The committee decided that the Capitol complex eventually should be able to accommodate about 1,200 cars. But board members couldn't agree on how to provide those spaces. One option includes opening spots in an employee parking lot through a "cash-out" program, where workers would receive a transportation allowance they could use to pay for a parking space or a special bus pass. Others have suggested a parking structure in the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds. In the end, the committee turned the problem over to another committee. That parking task force is scheduled to report back in December.


