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Council hears staff recommendations to right‑size off‑street parking and relax some on‑street restrictions
Summary
Planning staff recommended a middle approach—targeted reductions in commercial nodes combined with rightsizing across land uses—to bring Bloomington’s decades‑old parking requirements into alignment with current demand; staff also proposed easing some on‑street posting near parks and assembly uses and forming a parking management group, and several council members signaled support for options 2 and 3.
City planning and transportation staff brought two linked parking studies to the council on May 11: an off‑street parking code review and an overview of the city’s on‑street parking posting policy.
Planning presenter Miss O'Day told the council that Bloomington’s minimum off‑street parking standards were created decades ago and may no longer reflect actual demand, noting widespread use of deviations and incentives in recent multi‑family projects. Staff laid out options ranging from no change to rightsizing and setting parking…
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