Hood River City Councilors spent two hours Monday evening discussing downtown parking as a resolution to drop the in-lieu-of parking fee for residential development from over $20,000 to the commercial fee of just over $1,100 died for lack of a second, and then Councilors voted 5-2 to put the fee for both residential and commercial at $10,500.  City officials had made the initial proposal based on Key Development’s request to drop the residential in-lieu parking fee as they consider constructing an apartment building downtown.  But that has brought up a litany of issues related to a tight parking situation in downtown Hood River, and Councilor Mark Zanmiller says he sees the new in-lieu fee as an acknowledgement of the need to develop a systemic solution to downtown parking.  Mayor Paul Blackburn, who joined Councilor Peter Cornelison in voting against the fee change, notes this may bring back discussions around a parking structure.  Councilors are forming a sub-committee to study the issue, and City Manager Steve Wheeler says staff will come up with some ideas to start that process at the next Council meeting in October.