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Committee warned that prospect of Seventh Street garage sale could require proactive parking‑replacement strategy
Summary
Administration confirmed a long-term option for the owner of the land underlying the Seventh Street garage to repurchase the garage after a 30‑year period. Committee members urged the city to plan for replacement parking and to explore public–private approaches and off‑island employee parking and shuttles to support the workforce.
Parking directors and committee members raised alarm about a potential loss of public parking after the owner of the land beneath the Seventh Street garage informed the city it intends to exercise a contractual option to repurchase the garage when the 30‑year term expires.
Monica Beltran (Parking Director) told the committee that the Seventh Street garage provides roughly six‑hundred-plus public spaces and was acquired under a 1990s agreement that gave the underlying landowner an…
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