Vehicle charging station on town's wish list

La Conner officials are mulling a plan to install a charging station for electric vehicles in town.

Right now the idea is to put one at the small First Street parking lot between the boardwalk gazebo and the Pier 7 building. Presently, that lot has three spaces for handicap access only.

An idea that surfaced at the last Town Council meeting was to move two of those spots to on-street parking, and install a two-outlet charging station there.

Town Public Works Director Brian Lease presented the council with options for a dual port charger, a single port charger, networked or non-networked.

Counc...