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Santa Cruz Planning Commission weighs multimodal impact fee, sidewalks and new parking rules
Summary
The Planning Commission reviewed staff options to reshape the city's traffic impact fee into a multimodal program, strengthen objective standards for development, and revise parking tools — including unbundled parking and tiered residential permits — to address neighborhood spillover from new, transit‑proximate projects.
The Santa Cruz Planning Commission spent its March 19, 2026 meeting discussing policy options to reduce parking spillover and make transportation investments more multimodal as the city anticipates denser, transit‑proximate development.
Claire Glogly, the city’s principal transportation planner, told commissioners the current traffic impact fee is "just over $5,000 per PM trip" and is largely auto‑focused, with roughly 80% of revenue allocated to auto‑oriented needs, 15% to bike and pedestrian projects and 5% to neighborhood needs. Staff said they’ve applied for a Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning grant to design a "multimodal impact fee" tied to a project list and measurable multimodal objectives that could direct more revenue to sidewalks, transit and bike infrastructure.
Glogly described limitations the city faces when trying to…
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