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REPORT <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br /> <br />December 18, 2017 <br /> <br />SUBJECT <br />City Council Consideration of Municipal Code Changes Related to 72-Hour Parking <br />Rule and Parking Commercial Vehicles On City Streets <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Waive First Reading and Introduce an Ordinance Deleting and Amending Sections of <br />the Redwood City Municipal Code Related to Parking of Vehicles on City Streets <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />Over the past several years, the number of neighborhood parking concerns reported to <br />the City has increased. Based on these concerns, in 2016, City Council directed staff to <br />work with the Complete Streets Advisory Committee (CSAC) to develop neighborhood <br />parking solutions. In addition, the City Manager tasked an internal working group with <br />identifying the underlying issues causing parking problems, and proposing policy <br />options for the Council to consider. This internal working group included City Attorney’s <br />Office, City Manager’s Office, Community Development (Transportation, Planning and <br />Code Enforcement), Police and Public Works Services staff. <br />The following three-pronged approach to resolving neighborhood parking issues was <br />discussed at an August 2016 City Council study session: <br />· Residential Permit Parking (RPP): The City has an adopted Residential Permit <br />Parking program. The policy framework and Municipal Code which implements <br />this program was first created in the 1980s. Beginning in 2015, however, City <br />staff received numerous requests for the establishment of new RPP areas. <br />Based on the number and type of these requests, staff and the CSAC <br />recommended changes to the adopted RPP program. These changes were <br />adopted by the City Council in late 2016. A new RPP program in the Stambaugh- <br />Heller neighborhood was also adopted in late 2016. City staff expects additional <br />RPP districts to be proposed in the coming years. <br /> <br />· Changes to the Municipal Code to Aid Enforcement: One of the key tasks <br />undertaken by the internal working group was reviewing data, particularly the <br />number and types of parking-related complaints received. Based on this data, as <br />6.4.A. - Page 3