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6.1 C REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Ci Mana er November 8, 2010 SUBJECT Temporary suspension of parking meter rates in downtown during Hometown Holidays RECOMMENDATION Approve, by motion, the temporary suspension of parking meter rates in the downtown area on Saturday, December 4, 2010 to accommodate the annual Hometown Holidays festival. BACKGROUND On December 4, 2010, the Downtown Business Group will hold its annual Hometown Holidays event, a parade and festival to celebrate the winter holiday season, in downtown Redwood City. The Hometown Holidays event includes a snow fot, musical entertainment, visits and photos with Santa, Children's Holiday Parade, tree fighting ceremony, and a fireworks display. Due to the parade route and festival events, much of the downtown core's parking supply will be unavailable. To accommodate these scheduled special public events and compensate for the reduced parking supply, staff requests the suspension of the parking meter rates on Saturday, December 4, 2010, from 10:00 AM through 6:00 PM on the streets and city-owned parking lots listed below, so that patrons of downtown Redwood City may park without charge during the event. 1} All streets bounded by Veterans Boulevard, Brewster Avenue, EI Camino Real, and Walnut Street. 2) Off-street parking lots: Perry Lot, Winslow Lot, Main Street Lot, and Library Lots A and B. 3) City staff will reprogram the digital multi-space meters to notify patrons of the temporary suspension of parking meter rates in the downtown and to not accept payment during the suspension. City Council may temporarily suspend parking meter rates according to the City Municipal Code Section 20.133 excerpted as follows: Sec. 20.133. PROVISIONS FOR TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF METER RATES: The provisions of this Division may be suspended from time to time by mofion of the City Council in any case where the Council frnds that strict compliance would not serve the public interest, including but not limited to the use of public sfreets and sidewa/ks for celebrations, specia/ public evenfs, celebration of holiday seasons and any other such activity or purpose as the City Counci! in ifs sole discretion shal! determine. (Ord. No. 2287, § 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 2329, § 1, 5-92-08) ALTERNATIVES Council may choose to enforce parking meter rates in downtown on December 4, 209 0. FISCAL IMPACT The city will not receive an estimated $1,700 in revenue as a result of suspending the parking meter rates on December 4, 2010.