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City staff outlines parking study recommendations: progressive pricing, expanded enforcement and pilot residential permits
Summary
The city’s parking manager presented a downtown parking study recommending progressive on‑street pricing, expanded enforcement hours, a neighborhood residential-permit pilot, and investments to address $4.3 million in garage deferred maintenance over 10 years.
City parking staff presented a multi-part review on Feb. 11 that recommends using price and technology changes to improve turnover, close a projected funding gap for garage maintenance, and pilot a residential parking-permit program in neighborhoods near downtown and the university.
Parking Manager Brad Harrell and consultant Eric Haggett (Walker Consultants) told the commission the downtown system includes roughly 2,602 spaces, that the city’s two-hour meters are $1 per hour, and that annual parking revenues and expenses have diverged as maintenance needs increased. Harrell said current reserve levels (about $1.8 million at the end of 2024) would not cover projected garage repairs without rate or policy changes; the consultants estimate approximately $4.3 million in deferred maintenance in the parking garages over the next 10 years.
Major recommendations and tradeoffs: Staff outlined a menu of options the commission can consider, including: - Progressive on‑street…
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