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Boulder TAB recommends keeping three neighborhood parking permit zones after public outcry
Summary
The Transportation Advisory Board voted unanimously to recommend that city council keep the High Sunset, Columbine and Fairview neighborhood permit parking (NPP) zones unchanged after staff review and resident feedback flagged concerns about removing or shrinking the zones.
The Transportation Advisory Board on Aug. 11 recommended unanimously that City Council keep the existing Neighborhood Permit Parking zones for High Sunset, Columbine and Fairview unchanged.
The board’s vote follows staff analysis of parking utilization, permit demand and visitation, resident outreach and a public hearing in which several residents urged retention of permits to prevent university and school spillover parking.
Staff said the residential access management program (RAMP), which includes NPPs, is intended to be strategic and data-driven, and that the decision to flag zones for potential removal is based on three metrics: parking utilization, permit demand and visitation estimates obtained from Placer AI. “This option would retain all existing MPP zone boundaries, hours of operations, and time limits for nonpermit holders with no modifications to the current program structure,” Samantha Bromberg, senior product manager, told the board as she presented staff’s recommendation labeled…
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