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Council directs staff to study parking and transportation mitigations for transit‑proximate projects
Summary
The City Council asked staff to evaluate policy options — including updating impact fees, strengthening transportation standards, refining neighborhood permit processes, and adding enforcement capacity — and to return in six months with recommendations.
The Santa Cruz City Council voted to direct staff to review a package of policy options to address parking pressures caused by state rules that reduce local parking requirements near transit corridors.
Vice Mayor Kalantari Johnson and council members Triguero and O’Hara framed the item as a response to repeated neighborhood complaints about spillover parking and impacts…
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