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November 26, 2007 SUBJECT Parking during the Hometown Holidays event RECOMMENDATION Approve, by motion, the suspension of parking meter rates in the Downtown area on December 1, 2007. BACKGROUND On December 1 at, 2007 Downtown Redwood City will be the site of a large parade and festival celebrating the winter holiday season. Due to the parade route and festival events, much of Downtown's parking supply will be unavailable. In addition, a large share of what remains will be in the three off-street parking areas which require no parking enforcement due to their gated, pay..on-exit configuration. Therefore, staff feels that it would be inefficient and impractical to schedule parking enforcement for on-street parking and un-gated off-street parking areas on December 1 at. Section 20.133 of the Municipal Code provides for the temporary suspension of parking meter rates in situations such as this by motion of the City Council: Sec. 20.133. PROVISIONS FOR TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF METER RATES: The provisions of Division may be suspended from time to time by motion of the City Council in any case where the Council finds that strict compliance would not serve the public interest, including, but not limited to, the use of public streets and sidewalks for celebrations, special public events, celebration of holiday seasons and any other such activity or purpose as the City Council in its sole discretion shall determine. (Ord. No. 2287, 9 2,8-22-2005) In a related matter, staff would like to use this opportunity to briefly update the Council on some other holiday season parking improvements: . Informative yet simple parking flyers have been produced and are being deployed around the Downtown area to help people have a better understanding of where to park, how to park for free, and how to use the new meters. These flyers are being distributed to businesses, and are also being placed in pamphlet holders on the Pay-By-Space meters. Samples of the new brochures and handouts will be available to the Council at the meeting. . The Downtown parking website (www,redwoodci~.or9/parkinQ) has also been completely updated and improved to provide easy-to-use and up-to- date information that people need. . Theatre Way parking is being modified with the addition of pay-by-space parking via a creative utilization of our pay-by-phone program. This will minimize the use of the spaces by employees and make the spaces more readily available to customers. Handouts explaining this change have been distributed to adjacent businesses in the area. . Lastly, our shared-use agreement with the County is being fully implemented with the assistance of Ampco, and the County garage is now