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8.A. - Page 10 As mentioned above, the average daytime parking occupancy across downtown is 70 - 80%. Assuming an average occupancy of 80% across all 2,500 daytime parking spaces; there is a system wide surplus of roughly 125 parking spaces. Based on these data, there is sufficient parking across the downtown to accommodate new downtown park(s). While there is an adequate parking supply across the system, there are unique uses in the Main Street Lot that need to be considered. The City currently sells monthly parking permits to downtown employees and residents. Over the last year, the City has seen a reduction in the use of these permits — never approaching the cap of 100 permits. For September, only 44 permits have been sold and for most of 2018 fewer than 50 permits were issued. Approximately 15-30 of the permits issued in any given month are to residents who live in the apartments next to the Main Street Lot. Should the parks be built as proposed, monthly parkers would use a larger share of the available parking spaces — but they could still be accommodated as they are today. Listed below are efforts either underway, planned or available to minimize the impact of any potential reduction of parking on downtown parking. Next Steps While parking is available at all times on most days, there are specific locations at specific times that are heavily parked and exceed the 85% occupancy goal. Staff is working to address areas that are over parked to bring them in line with current policy. Following is a list of initiatives that are under way, planned for the next few months, or could be enacted if there were support: Current Initiatives • More shared use parking. Two projects under construction now (at 2075 Broadway and 851 Hamilton) will add over 400 publically-accessible parking spaces on evenings and weekends. • Transportation demand management. With the adoption of the Citywide Transportation Plan, the City Council established a goal of 50% of trips citywide be made by ways other than driving alone. The implementation of transportation demand management programs for new developments will help shift downtown employees and residents into carpooling, transit, walking, and bicycling. In turn, this will free up parking for downtown patrons whose only option is to drive alone. • Parking guidance system. A consultant is currently designing a real-time, dynamic parking guidance system for downtown. The system tell people where parking is available and help guide them to those spaces. This will balance parking use across the full parking supply (including private garages which are heavily underused), reducing peak period hotspots. Upcoming Initiatives