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Staff Report for Work Session on Draft Downtown Parking Management Plan
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Parking is a valuable and limited resource of our Downtown area. If managed carefully it can provide a part of the framework for a thriving city center. Our consultants, PlaceWorks, in conjunction with staff have developed a draft Parking Management Plan to define a vision, mission, and work plan for a successful Downtown. Staff recommends that the City Council receive the draft 2016 Downtown Parking Management Plan (DPMP), along with staff's initial recommendations, and provide direction to staff on the initial recommendations, priorities and strategies suggested in the report. This report is informational and no action is required.
BACKGROUND
The goal of the Downtown Parking Management Plan is to improve parking utilization by understanding how different parking policies impact user groups in Downtown San Leandro. The plan analyzes parking inventory, utilization, and turnover in the core downtown and periphery areas. The data includes BART riders, employees of downtown businesses, shoppers, and residents who use parking either for short durations or all-day. By understanding parking patterns, the City hopes to adopt a strategy that will aid future land-use and economic development decisions.
In the Downtown area, the City controls about 3,239 parking spaces, of which 1,773 are on-street and 1,466 are off-street parking in seven parking facilities, including the recently reconstructed Downtown Parking Garage. The San Leandro Downtown Parking Management Plan seeks to:
* Better utilize the existing on- and off-street parking inventory
* Strategize best solutions for Downtown's short- and long-term parking needs
* Address multi-modal access needs for residents, employees, customers and commuters in San Leandro
This effort has been funded by the Sustainable Communities Technical Assistance Program (SC-TAP) of the Alameda ...
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