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`7.►-�1 _ REPOR T To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager October 13, 2003 Subject Suspension of enforcement of maximum parking periods and meter rates in certain areas of downtown during the holiday season. Recommendation Pursuant to Redwood City Municipal Code Section 20.133, by motion, suspend enforcement of those sections of Redwood City Municipal Code (Article VII, Chapter 20, Division 4—Parking Meters Generally) regulating on-street, 2-hour maximum parking periods and meter rates for those areas lying within the downtown area as described below, for the period of Thanksgiving 2003 to New Year's Day 2004. Background Since November of 1998, the City Council has annually adopted a motion to suspend parking meter fees in certain areas of the downtown for a specified period of time. This practice has � been carried out over the holiday season from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day to encourage people to support downtown restaurants and merchants. This has been well received by the merchants and their customers. In 2001, the practice was codified by the addition of Section 20.133 to the Redwood City Municipal Code, authorizing the temporary suspension of maximum parking periods and meter rates for "...celebration of holiday seasons and any such other activity or purpose as the City Council in its sole discretion shall determine." The on-street 2-hour parking meters are typically bagged with a notice that indicates parking will be free for two hours—parking for longer than two hours would be prohibited and would result in a citation. If approved, approximately 250 meters would be bagged on the blocks adjacent to Broadway (one block in either direction) from Main to EI Camino Real as follows: • Broadway, from EI Camino to Main • Main, from Marshall to Middlefield • Jefferson, from Marshall to Middlefield • Middlefield, from Marshall to Main • Hamilton, from Marshall to Winslow • Winslow, from Marshall to Middlefield • Marshall, from Arguello to Winslow • Perry, from Brewster to Broadway • California, from Winklebleck tu Broadway � Only 2-hour meters are affected and there would be no change to the parking fees in the public parking lots.