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McKinney TIRZ board approves $150,000 authorization for downtown parking pilot using computer vision
Summary
The board approved staff's request to fund a downtown parking-management pilot using computer-vision sensors and digital signage, partnering with AMSIS Innovative Solutions; staff said the vendor will use edge computing, retain a 30-day rolling buffer, and not train models to capture license plates.
The Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 1 board on June 2 approved a staff request to fund a downtown parking-management pilot that uses computer-vision cameras and digital wayfinding signs to direct drivers to underused parking supply.
Lucas Raley, director of planning, described the pilot design: an unrestricted lot on South Kentucky, a three-hour restricted lot (Cloyd Lot 2), and the Chestnut Garage, with baseline occupancy measured and digital signs introduced later in the pilot to test whether drivers change behavior. Raley said the city would partner with AMSIS Innovative Solutions and that the vendor’s architecture uses “edge computing” so that “no raw video comes to them,” and that the vendor retains a 30-day rolling buffer for any recorded data.
Cost estimates for hardware and installation were roughly $105,000, and staff requested a lump sum not to exceed $150,000 to ensure adequate funds for signage and final specifications. Board members raised privacy and operational questions — for example, whether license-plate data would be collected and how the data could be used for police investigations — and Raley said the vendor was not training models to capture plates and that, when relevant, the city would follow its normal practice of turning over retained data to police when requested for active cases. A board member moved to approve the request from the TIRZ general fund balance; the motion passed.
