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6.H. - Page 2 of 11 ANALYSIS The proposed ordinance will establish a new parking permit program for commercial areas. Much like the City's Residential Permit Parking Ordinance, the proposed Commercial Permit Parking Ordinance would allow the creation of commercial permit parking areas in Redwood City through the adoption of City Council resolutions. Once a commercial permit parking area is established, the businesses in the area could apply for permits that they can use and/or provide to their employees. The permits would exempt a vehicle from the area's adopted parking time restrictions. Permits will be good for one calendar year and would need to be renewed annually. The proposed ordinance also allows the City Council to establish a fee to offset the costs of the permits and their issuance. Following discussions with the business community, the businesses have asked that the City to adopt the Commercial Permit Parking Ordinance but hold off on any resolutions establishing and implementing the program areas. They would like to first see the impacts for the new RV regulations and the 2 -hour parking that were recently adopted by the City Council. City staff agrees with this approach, as it will give traffic a chance to normalize to the new restrictions and prevent unnecessary additional restrictions being placed on the City streets. Should the RV regulations and the 2 -hour parking not meet the needs of the business community staff will bring a resolution establishing the program areas to the City Council for approval. FISCAL IMPACT The adoption of the proposed ordinance has no costs associated with it. If and when a future resolution is approved establishing a program area, the City will incur costs associated with establishing the program in that area. These costs include, minor sign modifications to implement commercial permit parking areas at a cost of approximately $8,000. The material purchasing cost of the permits would be approximately $2,000. Additional effort would be required of the staff who issue permits. The additional staff time would cost approximately $10,000. Adoption of the commercial permit program would not incur additional enforcement costs because permits can be verified at the same time as the Safe Parking Program's two- hour parking restrictions. As previously noted, if the program area is established the estimated startup cost for establishing commercial permit parking areas for the Safe Parking Program areas is $20,000 with an ongoing annual cost of $12,000. Additional costs will apply if new commercial permit parking areas are added in the future. Permit fee revenues could offset some of these costs, if adopted. If permit fees are not approved, the first year costs for this program will be funded from the Safe Parking Program. The total estimated project budget for the RV Safe Parking Program is approximately $1.7 million for two years. This includes approximately $750,000 per year in operating costs, including services provided by LifeMoves, and approximately $200,000 in one-time parking site improvement costs. Future operating costs of the program will be included in the Parking Fund operating budget, which has a balance of $109,900 in its operating supplies and expenses budget. Page 2 of 3 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore 161