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7C Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager February 13, 2006 Subject Downtown Parking Ordinance Implementation Recommendation Introduce the attached Ordinance, which establishes a new effective date of May 1 , 2006 for the Parking Ordinance adopted on July 25, 2005. Executive Summary On July 25, 2005 staff presented a Parking Management Plan (liThe Plan") to the City Council to ensure convenient, efficient, and orderly use of Downtown parking as the magnitude and pattem of Downtown parking demand changes. The Plan proposed changes to the current Downtown parking system that are summarized as follows: Recommendation 1: Establish parking prices on the fair market rate. Recommendation 2: Eliminate time limits. Recommendation 5: Switch meters in the core area to computerized pay-by-space models. Utilize Downtown meter revenue for parking and traffic related improvements pursuant to Section 20.121. Modify the parking permit program. Recommendation 3: Recommendation 4: This ordinance was written to create a parking system which would do a good job of handling parking in Downtown after the opening of the "On Broadway" retail-cinema project. When the ordinance was originally crafted the best available information said that mid-February would be the completion date for the project. Now, however, the project isn't slated to open until May. Having the new parking program debut so far ahead of the retail-cinema project is not recommended by staff. The ordinance was always meant to debut shortly before the cinema project and it is recommended that the effective date be revised to keep in line with this original intent. The May 1 date is very close to the expected opening of the project, and is far enough in the future that it can accommodate currently unforeseen project delays without causing significant issues. REDEVSHARED_2006 STAFF REPORTS_O1-2006_Parking Ordinance 2287 Effective Date 1 , ,~"."-~, --,---... ,..----"....'