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Board backs smaller parking-reduction incentive for affordable and mixed-use projects
Summary
The Historic Resources Preservation Board recommended reducing the parking-reduction incentive from 25% to 15% for qualifying affordable housing and mixed-use developments; staff said the City Commission directed the change and on-street counting rules are unchanged.
Board members spent extended discussion on a proposed change to the parking-reduction incentive for qualifying developments. Planning staff said the existing code allowed a 25% reduction for mixed-use and affordable housing projects, but the City Commission directed staff to lower that incentive to 15% as a compromise that would not trigger comp-plan amendments.
"The direction to reduce it to a 15% reduction came from the city commission," staff said, adding that the existing policies in the comprehensive plan supported some level of parking reduction but that the commission asked staff to reduce the size of the incentive. Staff clarified the change affects the percentage reduction in required off-street parking spaces — for example, a 100-space requirement would fall to 85 spaces with a 15% reduction rather than 75 with a 25% reduction — and that the rules governing which on-street spaces can be counted toward that total are not changing.
Public commenters urged the board to reject the reduction, arguing on-street parking should be reserved for residents. After the discussion the board included the parking reduction change as part of its recommendation on the broader LDR package sent to the City Commission.
