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Mill Valley council favors eliminating downtown parking minimums for small projects and backs shared-parking, staff-directed ordinance
Summary
After a data-driven review by Walker Consultants, the Mill Valley City Council directed staff to draft a parking ordinance that removes minimum parking requirements for nonresidential projects under 5,000 sq ft in the downtown/Miller Avenue area, increases shared-parking allowances, updates residential ratios, and declines to resurrect a broad in-lieu parking fee.
The Mill Valley City Council voted July 21 to direct staff to prepare a new parking ordinance that would eliminate minimum parking requirements for most change-of-use or small new nonresidential projects under 5,000 square feet in the downtown and inner Miller Avenue corridors, while preserving a 3-per-1,000-square-foot threshold for larger projects and expansions.
Council and staff framed the decision around a Walker Consultants study presented at the meeting that measured on-street and lot occupancy and commercial parking demand. Walker reported that curbside on-street occupancy peaked at about 83% at Friday evening peaks, public lots averaged roughly 77% occupancy and some private lots were underused (about 48%). The consultants calculated a downtown commercial parking ratio near three parked cars per…
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