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Council weighs employee parking strategies and shared-parking agreements
Summary
Council and staff discussed designating employee parking areas, encouraging private shared-parking agreements and potential ordinance changes to parking requirements as short- and long-term tools to ease downtown demand.
Council and staff discussed approaches to reduce front-door employee parking, including dedicating off-street employee spaces, restriping to gain additional stalls and pursuing shared-parking agreements with private property owners. Lance Bernard said identifying spaces "meant for employee parking" requires collaboration with businesses and sometimes formal documentation.
Councilmembers noted existing ordinance reductions in the CBD and questioned whether further reductions or case-by-case shared agreements are appropriate for nighttime-focused businesses (restaurants, bars). Staff said modifications to the parking ordinance and formal shared-parking agreements are possible policy tools but depend on how original approvals were structured (CUPs, code compliance, or documented private agreements).
