TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Adam Lindsay, ICMA-CM, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, CCM, CFM, Public Services Director
Brian McGill, PE, PTOE, Interim Assistant Public Services Director - Traffic Services
DATE: November 4, 2024
RE:
Title
Paid Parking Program Update
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
All
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal II: Have a responsive City government supporting a diverse and viable economy.
Goal IV: Be a highly desirable place to live, work and recreate.
Goal VI: Have a collaborative citizen and business engagement base.
Executive Summary:
It was requested that at a future Council Work Session, the entire paid parking program be reviewed. This report and presentation discuss the parking agreement between the City and a consultant, program operations, the previous Downtown Parking Study, and recent activity surrounding the parking program. Recommendations for the parking program are included in this report as well as the accompanying presentation. Having a paid parking program and infrastructure should be evaluated across two frames: cost recovery and behavior impacts. All decisions and policies will impact one or both of these frames and sometimes inversely.
Background:
History
At the June 3, 2024 Council Work Session, council requested to review the Paid Parking Program and contracts at a future work session. At the same Council Work Session, and at the June 24, 2024 regular Council Session the Downtown Paid Parking hours were revised from 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM to 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
Program Operations
The City has approximately 6.5 acres of surface lot parking in the downtown area, as well as two (2) parking decks. Combined, the parking program covers over 1,800 City-maintained public parking spaces, including 295 spaces in the Franklin Street Parking Deck, and 363 spaces in the Hay Street Parking Deck.
Parking is enforced by the consultant in the downtown area b...
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