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<br />BACKGROUND / HISTORY cont. <br /> <br />3) Item 2 from Page 3 ofVedi Associates' proposal has already led the City Staff and City <br />Council to consider these additional measures that may / will modify the downtown parking <br />regulations and permitting process in Spring 2007. <br />Reduce parking time limits onstreet and in the King Avenue lot and enforce weekday and <br />overnight parking regulations. <br />Relocate downtown resident and overnight guest parking to north of Highway 10 lot(s) <br />by free permits. <br />Limit issuance of King Avenue employee permits to 150% (110 permits) of available <br />stalls. <br />Issue employee permits by application on a quarterly basis, at a rate of $1 O/month, <br />starting with 1 per business/property owner, then implement a "round robin" approach. <br />Provide a communications campaign to promote employee use of safe and available <br />parking location alternatives. <br />Evaluate financial means and timing for purchase of "parking boots" and "emergency <br />pull-posts" . <br />Parking regulation and permit system to be reevaluated on quarterly basis by a Focus <br />Group with regulatory changes to be authorized by Council prior to issuance of permits. <br /> <br />While effective the below mentioned measures are short-term and be analyzed to address the <br />following: <br />While current contractor parking is occurring on the north side of Highway 10 and seems <br />to be working well, will this be enough and will this continue to work? <br />There is a strong demand for employee parking permits (currently approximately 340 <br />active permits are in place for the available 87 King Avenue employee parking stalls). <br />The Bank of Elk River parking lot could free up some demand in the King Avenue lot <br />and that impact will have to be measured. <br />Once the aforementioned developments are complete, there is an anticipated parking <br />situation that new customer and residential parking demands will compete with the <br />existing commercial and office employee parking demands. <br /> <br />Also the following question needs to be addressed and answered: "What is the City's <br />obligation to provide public parking, at what cost, where, what percentage, etc." based <br />on the changing demands. <br />A) The demand on downtown parking has shifted from a high demand for customer parking <br />to employee parking. <br />B) Due to the shift from mostly customers to mostly employees the King Avenue parking lot <br />has become primarily an employee lot with a ratio of 1.5 employee stalls for every <br />customer stall( s). <br />C) In most downtowns, a centrally located public parking lot is usually reserved for <br />customer usage and employees park on the periphery of downtown. <br />D) There is an expectation by downtown merchants that customers should be able to <br />park near their establishments. <br /> <br />4 <br />