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¿A-s Attachment 1 A Summary of the Ordinance under Consideration on July 25 The ordinance under consideration implements the Parking Management Plan that was discussed at the City Council meeting of June 6, 2005. The five recommendations of that plan were as follows: Recommendation #5: Establish parking prices on the fair market rate. Eliminate time limits. Switch meters in the core area to computerized pay-by-space models. Utilizes Downtown meter revenue for parking and traffic related improvements pursuant to Section 20.121 Modify the parking permit program. Recommendation #1 : Recommendation #2: Recommendation #3: Recommendation #4: The ordinance includes four parts. Part 1 of the ordinance removes time limits from the Downtown area, per Recommendation #2 of the Parking Management Plan. Time limits outside of the Downtown area-where there are not meters to ensure adequate tumover-have not been changed. The table in Part 1 of the ordinance merely re-states existing time limits outside of the Downtown area, reordered to reflect the removal of Downtown time limits and placed in a table for improved accessibility. Part 2 of the ordinance implements Recommendations #1 (establish prices based on the fair market rate) and #4 (utilizes Downtown meter revenue for parking and traffic related improvements pursuant to Section 20.121) of the Parking Management Plan. It sets the base rates that were shown in the Plan and also puts into place a mechanism for incremental adjustments, up or down, of those rates in order to maintain the use of parking areas close as possible to the 85% "target occupancy rate" that is ideal for ensuring easy ingress and egress, reducing cruising traffic, and offering parking opportunities to as many different people as possible. A maximum meter rate of $1.50 is also established. Part 2 of the ordinance also amends appropriate language in order to allow for the installation of computerized pay-by-space parking meters per Recommendation #3 of the Parking Management Plan. The rest of Part 2 of the ordinance contains other parking meter regulations that are unaffected by the Parking Management Plan and have simply been reordered to fit into this new version of Division 4 of the code. Part 3 of the ordinance creates a new parking permit program for Downtown, establishing new types of permits, the periods for which they are valid, and the costs of these permits. This implements Recommendation #5 of the Parking Management Plan. Part 4 of the ordinance also implements Recommendation #5 of the Parking Management Plan. Division 9 regulated unmetered parking lots, so the primary change pertains to the parking area behind the Library, which would become a permit-only zone for use by City Hall and Library employees and City fleet vehicles. Part 5 of the ordinance establishes the effective date of these changes, which would be February 1, 2006. '-"-"-'-1r"