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7.1.B. - Page 12 Tanya Gulesserian, on behalf of J&S Management, appreciated the City's report. They have been doing what they can to alleviate the parking problem for the tenants and educate the tenants. She thanked staff for getting a bicycle rack at their building and seen an increase of the use of the bicycle rack. Ms. Gulesserian reviewed the staff report and had the following recommendations: 1. Seek clarification that there will be a permit parking program, 2. Clarification on the Marshall Street Garage, that there will be a continuation of the offer for at least 300 permits, and 3. After the initial change this evening, recommend staff provide a report on how it's going in three months to see if the rates are working. She said that the basis of the three recommendations is that they determined that average number of parking permits is 265 on a monthly basis, and that only 540 permits are issued. Thus, the garage is over capacity. Steve Penna said that the report is conducive to the goals that the City is trying to achieve. He recommended to Council to have more than one resident serve on the committee, and he opined the report does not go far enough in regards to the monitoring and the limitations of the parking hours. He suggested keeping the hourly parking rolling for a two to three hour limit, and he believes this will benefit merchants. Adina Levin, with Friends of Caltrain, said that her organization is following this issue closely - parking and transportation through the entire El Camino corridor. She said that as a user, she supports the idea of raising the rates in the core area and decreasing the rates further out and having signs showing that. Her organization is looking at the parking policies and the new structure that will cost $15 to $20 million dollars. In that regard, she mentioned that the cities of San Mateo and Palo Alto are facing the same need for the downtown area to reduce the number of people that drive and park and looking at parking structures. She encouraged Council to look at the Transportation Demand Management (TDM) information in the cities of San Jose and Mountain View, for these provide robust programs in her opinion. She also suggested Council look at the cities of San Mateo and Boulder, Colorado that use parking revenue to reduce parking rates. The Mayor gave a summation of what was said for this agenda item. He mentioned that there is an interest from the City Council to: review other cities like Walnut Creek (and how they get their private partners to make available their land for public parking); have a discussion of quantity for handicap parking; grab and go spaces concept; the rolling of the parking; there is a desire for increase bike parking; survey of permit holders; and measure feedback to monitor whether the program is working or not. Mayor Gee commented on the casino buses and that the City Manager and the Chief of Police are monitoring the parking situation. Mayor Gee reiterated what one of the Council Members said earlier that the downtown did not happen overnight. It has progressed, stopped and now evolved with a Renaissance. He believes the parking program has to evolve with the downtown. The days of coming to downtown and parking in front of a restaurant are gone. He believes that the easiest people to change are the visitors but it is hard to get our residents and businesses to change. He advocated working together to change the culture. He acknowledged that Redwood City is not the only city facing the parking issue. He also JOINT CITY COUNCIUSUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD April 28, 2014 MEETING MINUTES PAGE 12