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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2023-088 - Modifying the Employee Parking Zones and Modifying the Amount of Employee Permits sold, and Modifying Loading Zones on Oregon StreetRESOLUTION NO. 2023-088 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING MODIFYING THE EMPLOYEE PARKING ZONES AND MODIFYING THE AMOUNT OF EMPLOYEE PERMITS SOLD, AND MODIFYING LOADING ZONES ON OREGON STREET WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code (CVC) Section 22507 provides that a local government may, by ordinance or resolution, restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or certain hours of the day; and WHEREAS, Redding Municipal Code (RMC) Section 11.24.170 provides that the City Council may, by resolution, establish time limited parking zones for such days and periods of time deemed necessary as shown on the Traffic Control Map established pursuant to the provisions of RMC Section 11.04.020; and WHEREAS, RMC Section 11.28.020 provides that the City Council may, as traffic conditions require, designate, modify or eliminate by resolution paid parking zones upon such streets or portions of streets of the City. The areas, streets and portions of streets designated as paid parking zones shall be depicted on the Traffic Control Map adopted pursuant to RMC Section 11.04.020; and WHEREAS, RMC Section 11.28.075 provides that the City Council may, by resolution, establish employee parking permit areas and pursuant to CVC Section 22507(b), an employee parking permit program may be utilized to designate employee parking permit zones that will improve parking availability for customers if the use of the permits will not adversely impact parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THAT: 1. The recitals set forth herein are true and correct. 2. Pursuant to RMC Section 11.24.170, the City Council modifies the loading zone adjacent to the United States Post Office on Oregon Street, between Yuba Street and Placer Road from 12 minutes to 30 minutes. Pursuant to RMC Section 11.28.075, and CVC 22507, the City Council modifies the Employee Parking Program and finds that: a. After an audit of available parking spaces, including all of the leased parking lots, the average utilization of the Downtown area is consistently below 50 percent. The RMC sets a goal of 85 percent occupancy, thus leaving at least 35 percent of spaces available for additional parking to reach the goal. b. The City of Redding manages 457 off-street parking spaces designated as 10 -hour parking. and there are 463 private off-street parking spaces open to the public for a total of 920 off-street spaces. These spaces provide allowances for long term parking options surrounding the vicinity of the downtown core. There is an excess in off-street long-term parking spaces and a reduction in leased parking spaces will help increase occupancy in the core parking zones and in underutilized on -street parking spaces. C. A reduction of leased parking lots and replacement with underutilized on -street parking spaces as permit exempt zones will reduce lease costs and increase occupancy rates. d. The reduction of leased parking lots will require the designation of underutilized on -street parking spaces as employee permit exempt parking. This will allow valid permit holders to park in the properly signed exempt zones to park for longer than the 2 -hr designation. A review of underutilized (below 20% occupancy) parking block faces found that at least 120 spaces could allow on -street permit exempt parking. Of the 120 underutilized on -street parking spaces, 70 would be made available for on -street employee permit exempt parking. The parking system would hold onto a minimum of 315 spaces available for employee permit parking, to insure there is enough parking for the proposed number of permit holders. The 315 spaces would be comprised of the City owned spaces, the remaining leased lots and the new on -street employee permit exempt parking. e. Of the 315 spaces available for employee permit parking, 300 spaces would be offered at a discounted monthly rate for qualified Downtown employees in certain designated employee exempt zones. A review of the employee parking utilization rates found that permit holders park approximately 60% of weekly hours. This would leave approximately 126 spaces for other long-term parkers in addition to the privately managed 463 spaces in the core. f. There are approximately 200 students of Shasta College, that currently do not have any discount parking allowances. As the parking system becomes more robust, it will require the students to pay for parking in the long-term parking, or park farther away from the college in one of the free zones. This could negatively affect residential areas or other zones that are currently free. Allowing students to purchase employee parking permits will help pay for the cost of leased lots, support Shasta College located in the Downtown core and reduce the impacts to the free zones. A survey of students found that not all require a permit and many will still utilize the free zones, a portion work from home and others are off-site many hours a week. It is anticipated that 30-40 may purchase employee parking permits. g. The provision of an Employee Parking Program will encourage employees to utilize underutilized lots and on -street parking around the core of Downtown, without negatively impacting parking. h. The modification of the Employee Parking Program will encourage employees to move out of the Downtown core on -street parking and utilize the off-street parking areas thereby not adversely affecting parking conditions for merchants within close proximity. The provision of adequate customer parking and employee permit parking will thereby not adversely affect residential areas surrounding the Paid Parking Zone. 4. Pursuant to the findings above the employee parking areas will maintain 315 available spaces for employee permit parking. The traffic control map shall be modified to identify the block faces to allow up to 70 on -street parking spaces as employee permit exempt parking as demand requires subject to modification by the City Engineer. These spaces shall be made available for employee parking permits in the areas so designated, as shown on Exhibit A attached herein. and that, based on the findings set forth in Section 3, above, the employee parking zones so designated will not adversely impact parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. Pursuant to the findings above, 300 employee/student permits shall be made available for purchase. Based on the findings set forth in Section 3, above, the employee parking zones so designated will not adversely impact parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. 6. Pursuant to the findings above the employee parking program will allow Shasta College students to purchase employee parking permits and utilize all of the allowed employee parking permit zones. Students will be required to show proof of current enrollment in one of the programs at the Downtown campus. 7. The City Engineer shall cause to be signed and marked any areas noted on Exhibit A, in accordance with RMC Section 11.28.030, and amend the Traffic Control Map adopted pursuant to RMC Section 11.04.020 to account for the change in parking established herein. 8. Amendment of the Traffic Control Map is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), per Section 15601(b)(3) — Common Sense Exemption. CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. It can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the actions may have a significant effect on the environment; therefore, the activities are not subject to CEQA. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 5th day of September, 2023, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: - Audette, Munns, and Winter NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: - Mezzano, and Dacquisto ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: - None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: - None ATTEST: �SHARLENE TIPTON,'City Clerk MICHAEL DACQUISTO, Mayor FORM APPROVED: - y-- 1 1, 0 , Ile. 0 0:; Z�Z� .! BARRY E. DeWALT, City Attorney EUREKA WAY - 175 Existing permit spaces l DIVISION ST D - - -- - .. 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