The Downtown Advisory Board meets tomorrow, Thursday the 22nd, and they've got a tentative schedule for more parking reform and a preview of an information report at Council on Monday the 26th.
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| A tentative schedule! |
From the memo:
At the February 27, 2023, Council meeting, Mayor Hoy directed staff to return to Council with a plan to implement paid on-street parking in the downtown parking district and phase out the parking district tax.
At the June 26, 2023, City Council meeting, an information report will be shared with City Council outlining the on-street paid parking implementation plan that is outlined in this memo.
The Downtown Advisory Board has recommended converting the free parking district model to an on-street performance-based system of parking and elimination and/or phasing out the parking tax for several years. Ten years of downtown parking utilization studies have recommended replacement of the current Downtown Parking District model with a performance based on-street paid parking management system....
The timeline as you can see suggests it will take three years to implement. In the meantime Staff will also be recommending a reduction in the current free parking arrangement with a limit moving from three to two hours.
In order to manage the increased demand for on-street parking until such time as the on-street paid parking system is implemented, on-street time restrictions will need to be changed from three hours to two hours. Third party data collection results indicate the average on-street parking time limit is less than two hours and a change would increase available on-street parking options. [italics added]
The parking garages would remain free now, and remain free under a right-priced system.
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| Free parking promo - November 2020 |
There may be more to say in the Council preview here, as the information report to Council looks to have a little more detail - but also, the conversation might be exhausted, at least here, and there might not be more to say.
See previous notes here tagged "downtown parking."
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