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REQUEST FOR ACTION To Item Number Ci Council 5.1. Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by Woxksession October 8, 2007 Loxi Johnson, City Administrator; Scott Clark, Community Development Director; Cathy Mehelich, Economic Develo ment Director Item Description Reviewed by Continue Downtown Parking Study Discussion Reviewed by Action Requested ^ Accept Downtown Parking Study by Carl Walker, Inc. ^ Approve Downtown Parking Regulations and Permit System Background/Discussion On September 17 Mx. Bill Surna Parking Specialist fox Caxl Walker, Inc. presented the Downtown Parking Study and answered questions from the Council, HRA, and downtown business people. Following presentation of the study, Police Chief Jeff Beahen presented recommendations fox employee and residential parking and permitting. Due to the length of the discussions and the number of items yet to be discussed, the Council continued the discussion to this work session. There are two main items to discuss at the work session: 1. Accepting the Downtown Parking Study. 2. Residential parking locations and permits. This memo evill address the parking study. Attached are two memos addressing residential parking. The Council's direction on residential parking affects employee parking so both will be discussed even though the CouncIl has already made a decision on employee parking. First, the CouncIl should decide whether to accept the parking study. Although there axe some concerns and questions about the study, there axe advantages to accepting the study as prepared. First, it gives us a baseline - a starting point from which to make adjustments as parking patterns and volume change. The study data and future adjustments to that data axe valuable tools fox making current and future parking decisions. Second, accepting the study gives the developers of new commercial space the parking data they need to help market their commercial units. Third, the study includes a list of recommendations that, if adopted, will help deal with current and future parking related items in a proactive way to help avoid parking problems. When the study was presented, questions were raised about its validity since the actual parking count was only fox one day and that one day of data was used as the measure fox the study. Mx. Suxna explained at the meeting that this methodology is typical of the parking studies they do. He stated that other cities have also questioned using only one day and have chosen to do additional parking counts, but the end S:\Cuuncil\I,od\2007\Paxking Smdy.doc