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SA Page 24 THE PROPOSAL After looking at Redwood City's parking situation, conventional parking requirements from across the country, academic research, innovative new parking requirements, and working with Downtown stakeholders, the staff team has developed a proposal for new parking requirements for Downtown Redwood City. Despite everyone's best efforts, the parking requirements ultimately adopted will not be flawless. No parking requirements are. Because of the massive amounts of research undertaken and the hard work of the committee it is safe to say that they will be very good, but they cannot be perfect. As discussed earlier, the parking needs of different businesses are very tough to determine, even within very tightly defined categories. To add to the challenge, the same business can generate a different parking need within different cities and contexts. As ifit wasn't tricky enough already, the needs of certain businesses change over time, adding another level of complexity. Because of the difficult nature of parking, it is f~ parking requirement applied apparent that we cannot have a false sense of security from our parking requirements. Parking uniformly across a city implicitly will need to be monitored, and our management discriminates against development in of public parking and our requirements for the (downtown), because the burden private parking will need to be adjusted of complying with the requirement is periodically to reflect the changing conditions of greater in the (downtown) than almost Downtown and the realities of parking needs and anywhere else." behavior. Nevertheless, we must develoRnew -Michael Manville and Donald Shoup parking requirements and we can do a good job of it. The following is an attempt to do j1l;st that. About the Proposal Area The parking requirements recommended here apply to the same geographic area as the upcoming Downtown Precise Plan. The Precise Plan boundaries are shown in the map Appendix 1. Approach: "Just Enough" Parking New parking requirements for Downtown must reflect the fact that most visitors will arrive by car while also reflecting the inherent efficiencies of a dense, walkable, mixed-use, transit- connected setting. They must not only reflect those efficiencies, but they must be crafted to act as a tool which can enhance these qualities, as well. 1>;>~e 11 ...... . ..-.,. .-...-,,,.. ---'-. ._-.~ - ._-_..... ,--_.~......_---.__..~_._._---_..._- .~------_..._-.._---._-----.