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Downtown Parking Survey Business Name: Kemper Drug Address:323 Jackson Ave, Elk River Phone or Email: kemperdrugs@mcleodusa.net Contact Person: Wendy Simenson Approximately how many employees do you have working between 9 and 5 daily? 10 Have you or your employees/renters currently been parking in the King Ave Lot during business hours? Yes If not, does your business have its own parking spots outside of the King Ave Lot? How Many Spots are available to you there? The City is now requiring that employee cars witho~t the new parking permits park across Hwy 10 or on unregulated streets and there is no parking in the King Ave lot between 2AM and 6AM. Does that cause any problems for you or your employees? Yes If yes, what are those problems? Inconvenience, time and safety issues in crossing highway 10. If you wanted to buy parking permits for all of your employees who wanted to use the King Ave Lot, how many permits would you have to buy? 30 Do you think that charging for parking in the King Ave Lot is the best way to control parking downtown? I think that charging for parking clarifies what peoples needs/desires are. I think had the City spent more time talking to individual businesses and seeing what their needs were, much of the negatives of the current situation could have been avoided. The Parking Task Force's hands were tied by the assumptions that City Staff made about the parking problems downtown. The conclusions which resulted were based on those assumptions. Could you suggest an alternative way to provide adequate parking for employees and customers? I think that businesses that have no other parking adjacent to their buildings for employee parking should be grandfathered in with permits for use of 4 spots per 1000 square feet of business. I think that spots need to be reserved by painting numbers on them in the employee parking area of the King Ave lot for businesses who need them to relieve the financial burden of having to provide parking permits for part time employees. I think that employee parking areas should not be enforced during weekend days so the lot can be more citizen friendly for downtown events. Also, why waste police time to enforce parking in employee areas on weekends when there is an excess of parking then. I think that parking permits prices should be decreased to an amount that pays for their administration. The current amount seems punitive and egregious. Please Email (simen003@umn.edu) or fax (763-441-9004) this Survey Back by July 3rd, 2007. Thanks for your help with this. We will present the results of this survey to the City Council.