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Council rejects MPS pilot and approves downtown parking study funded by assessment district
Summary
After community outreach and thousands of impressions, the council declined to proceed with a large-scale automated parking pilot and instead authorized a professionally scoped downtown parking study paid from the downtown assessment district; staff will prepare an RFP and return with scope and budget details.
The Sierra Madre City Council voted on Oct. 1 to drop a proposed automated, camera-enabled downtown parking pilot and instead authorized a professional downtown parking study paid from the city’s downtown assessment district.
Background: Police and city staff presented results of extensive outreach—4 meetings, 2,600 mailings and an online survey of 365 respondents—about downtown parking enforcement and time-limited spaces. Staff said respondents identified lack of available spaces, inadequate signage and inconsistent enforcement as top problems. A vendor…
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