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Mill Valley planning commission backs study-driven parking reform, forwards options to council
Summary
Planning commissioners reviewed a Walker Consultants parking study that recommends a blended 3 spaces per 1,000 sq ft standard and complementary parking-management steps, and they forwarded both that package and an alternative—eliminate minimums for small commercial spaces with safeguards—to City Council for next steps.
Mill Valley — The Planning Commission on May 27 reviewed a comprehensive parking study by Walker Consultants and gave staff direction to take the report and a set of ordinance options to the City Council.
Patrick Kelly, the city’s director of planning and building, opened the session by saying the city’s parking rules have not been updated in more than 40 years and can block adaptive reuse and infill development. Kelly introduced the Walker team and said the study’s near-term goal was to align parking regulations with the General Plan and recent state policy.
Walker’s project manager, Tanya Shlek, summarized the work program and field counts. “We saw overall 71% utilization” at peak times in the downtown study area, Shlek said, and reported a Miller Avenue corridor utilization of about 57%. Using peak parked vehicles per occupied commercial square foot, Walker calculated commercial peak ratios near 3.1 vehicles per 1,000 square feet downtown and 2.75 per 1,000 on Miller Avenue, a range the consultants translated into a recommended blended nonresidential ratio of about 3 per 1,000.
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