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Preservation board recommends directing downtown parking fees to a dedicated fund; EV-charging rules made optional
Summary
The Historic Resource Preservation Board recommended the City Commission adopt ordinance 2025-29 to direct fee-in-lieu parking payments for the downtown core into a dedicated Parking Improvement Fund and to change EV-charging requirements from mandatory to optional in alignment with a state senate bill referenced in the record.
The Historic Resource Preservation Board on Dec. 10 recommended the City Commission adopt ordinance 2025-29, which would clarify the city’s fee-in-lieu-of-parking program for properties within the downtown “core area” and direct those payments into a dedicated Parking Improvement Fund for core-area parking infrastructure, maintenance and operations. Scott Rodriguez of the planning and zoning division presented the ordinance and explained its two main elements: dedicating fee-in-lieu revenue to a parking fund and changing vehicle-charging requirements to align with recent state legislation.
“All fee in lieu payments will now be directed to the parking a dedicated parking improvement fund, and it'll be used for park it parking related in infrastructure improvements, maintenance, and operations within the core,” Scott Rodriguez said.
A board member raised a procedural question after reading the ordinance text and said they could not find the numeric fee amount in the ordinance or the 2021 fiscal-year fee schedule; that member said they spent several minutes searching the code. “I could not find the amount of the fee for the fee in lieu of parking,” the member said. Rodriguez replied that in the new fiscal-year fee schedule the fee is listed as $25,000 per space.
A committee member moved to recommend adoption of the proposed LDR text amendments included in ordinance 2025-29; another member seconded. The board voted to recommend the ordinance to the City Commission, with the motion passing unanimously. The recommendation now goes to the City Commission for consideration.
If approved by the City Commission, the ordinance would shift fee-in-lieu revenue to a funding source designated for downtown parking improvements and would make certain EV-charging provisions optional to align with the state-level change referenced in the meeting record.
