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5.1C Page 1 REPORT TO;th$ Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager July 24, 2006 Subject Downtown Parking Validations Recommendation Rescind the motion of July 25th, 2005 which limited the ability to validate parking to retail, restaurant, and entertainment establishments. Background On July 25th, 2005, as partofthe approval ofthe Downtown Parking Management Plan. the City Council approved a motion to restrict the ability to issue validations for limited amounts of free parking to retail, restaurant, and entertainment establishments. Staff has since discovered that the parking control equipment cannot support such a complex validation scheme. In order to avoid unacceptable customer service problems while still complying with the two-tiered validation system required by the Parking Facilities Agreement between the City and the developer of the retail/cinema project, all non-cinema parkers must be treated the same. No significant parking conflicts are anticipated as a result of this action since the uses excluded from the program by the previous motion, such as personal services and offices, have peak periods of activity very different from retail, restaurant, and entertainment uses. Fiscal Impact Staff strongly believes that the fiscal impact will be minimal. This is due primarily to the fact that the $5.00 per hour evening and weekend rate will effectively discourage people without validations from parking in the garage. This will likely diminish the revenue during these hours regardless of who is allowed to validate. However, any impact would be experienced only by the Parking Fund and would not impact the General Fund. / /~-Y ///4 Susan Moeller .. Rede opment Manager Ed Everett City Manager 1:12006 STAFF REPORTSI 07-2006/Downtown Parlling Validation Up(late 1 _.