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Downtown Precise Plan, and states that if there are additional design modifications, to clearly state it to staff so that staff can work with the applicant to meet the design goals. '� � Aaron Aknin spoke about downtown parking and possible solutions. He explained that there are � three types of parking, employee, visitor and event parking. Mr. Aknin notes that there is work to do for visitor and event parking to make it easier, but for day time parking, there are a lot of vacant spaces. In the last few months, Mr. Aknin has walked the garages once a week to look at the parking trends. He showed pictures of the Marshall and the Jefferson Garages around lunch time, which he explains is the peak hour for powntown parking, and the top floor of the Marshall Garage and the second floor of the Jefferson Garage are mostly vacant. Mr. Aknin addressed some short-term and long-term possibilities to accommodate visitor parking. The short-term possibilities are short-term (2 hour) parking along Broadway, improved equipment, parking meters and garage equipment, residential parking permits, valet parking, and satellite parking, where employees could park outside of downtown and take a shuttle. Some long-term possibilities are a new county garage of 900 spaces to help with jury parking, extending the Jefferson garage, create District-wide Transportation Demand Management strategies and work with employers to get people out of their cars. Mr. Arkin repeats that the in- lieu fees can be used to increase parking, instead of using general funds, which could be used for other high demand items. Vice Mayor Foust asked Aaron to touch on a couple of points, the 900 spaces, the number of employees relocating to Redwood City, and that 45% of the work force has single occupancy vehicles. Mr. Aknin explains that the parking spaces are 3 per 1000 sq. ft. creating 900 spaces. The garage will be used by Box employees during the day time hours and the public will have access to the garage in the evenings and weekends, as explained in the Downtown Precise ""� Plan. He also explains that between 900-1000 employees are currently in the Los Altos office and will be relocating to the Redwood City location. At their current location, they have 300 •+� onsite parking spaces and use other methods of transportation. Vice Mayor Foust inquired if there have been discussions about the current employees taking public transportation will be getting off in Redwood City, not Mountain View, causing a different commute pattern. Mr. Aknin explains that it won't be new people on the CalTrain, instead of ridding to Mountain View, they would ride to Redwood City, which is a different commute pattern. Vice Mayor Foust asked that part of the decision the Council took into consideration was that the Box building was going to be parked at 3 to 1000 sq. ft. and have the spaces available for nights and weekends. Mr. Aknin explained that at that time the biggest factor was event parking, and that the 900 spaces helps relieve that and its one of the reasons the project was approved. Vice Mayor Foust asked if they hadn't taken any in-lieu fees and parked it to what it should be parked and Mr. Aknin stated that the building was parked per the code. Council Member Seybert commented that they are achieving low drive alone rates in an area where reaching public transit is difficult and suggests that it could be assumed that the drive- alone rate will stay the same or improve with the closer location to station. Mr. Aknin agreed with him. Council Member Seybert asked what the total number of employees would be at the Box building. Mr. Aknin shared about 1,200 employees; Box subleased a part of the building. Council Member Seybert estimated that 40% drive alone rate of 1,200 is 480, with 900 spaces available. He also asks when visitor and event parking is lacking? Mr. Aknin explained that the garages have the biggest crunches for events, like the Friday night concerts. But that the county � garage is vacant. � JOINT CITY COUNCIUSUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD/ September 28, 2015 PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY MEETING MINUTES PAGE 8 MINUTE BOOK NO. 66 Page No. 08