Planning Commission Minutes 2014 04 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes April; 10, 2014 Page 35of 37 Downtown and the Downtown events. They want help with the bad behavior. I did not hear anyone say “down with the restaurants or stop Street Faire.” What they are saying is “help us.”If we don’t, there may be a day which we have seen in other towns is that the neighborhoods do rise up and say “enough is enough.” This is a call to arms, saying “we love what is going on Downtown and we love Old Town” so let’s do something together. CONVENIENCE: From a convenience perspective, do we actually define the availability for homes, seeing where they could park rather than around the block? Can we choose to pave our alleys and snow plow our alleys which we do not currently do nowandexpect people to park inthe alleys? In a big snow event when alleys are not plowed, the residents go to the street and exacerbate the problem. These are all things to consider. We are mapping it,putting a cost to it, and creating policy. At the April 16, 2014, the Parking Committee will see itand we can do this round again with specific recommendations. Anything related to Chapter 17, Planning Commission will review and some of the capital improvements will go straight to Council. We will let you know what is going on. Commission Questions of Staff: Russell asks how many parking spaces do we lose in the summer when we put the decks out. Russ says 13. Russell asks how does City-sponsored valet parking address the parking issue at peak hours. Russ says with valet, you can get more parking spaces in surface lots. If the City worked a lease with an office space, valet can get nearly double more spaces. For example, at KoKo Plaza, by standard at a public opening, there are 41 spaces. A valet can get double that. Russell asks is it possible to assign parking in lieu of prices that are differentiated by use, such as a restaurant ($7000), an office ($4000). Russ says we can use that as an incentive tool like the business incentive program. At this time, we do not have the problem during the day. The restaurants want a better lunch crowd to promote office users. You can use parking ratios to do that. We can do it through ratios, payment in lieu of fees, and others. Prichard asks if Russ needs anything from Planning Commission. Russ says to email him or anyone on the team with any additional thoughts. Pritchard says this issue will need to be addressed with some tough decisions. Thanks Staff for their work and looking for solutions. Prichard says that this issue is scheduled to be brought back on May 8, 2014.