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--------- Good evening. It's now 6:41 and I call to order the u regular meeting of the Victoria City Council. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> The next item on our agenda this evening is announcements. Uh, city council is hosting a budget workshop on August 24th

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at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend. As a reminder, all city council meetings and workshops are open to the public and held in council chambers at city hall, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to attend in person, we encourage you to contact our city clerk in advance. In

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other announcements, the state primary election is tomorrow, August 11th. Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. across our five city precincts. If you are not sure of your polling location, please check the poll finder on the city website or contact the clerk's office

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for assistance. And please remember to vote. That concludes the announcements this evening. The next item of business is to adopt the final agenda. Council, can I get a motion to adopt the final agenda? >> Motion to adopt the final agenda.

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>> We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item is our open forum. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the council on items that are not on tonight's agenda or part of an

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active application that will come to the council at a future date. No one has registered to speak in advance and there is no one in the council chambers this evening. So, we will move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is routine administrative, do not require

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deliberation, or are housekeeping items that are required by law. They're approved with one vote unless someone requests an item to be considered separately. Miss Hardy, does staff wish to pull any consent items for separate discussion and vote this evening? >> None from staff. Madame Mayor, >> is there a member of the council wishing

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to pull anything for separate discussion and vote or and there's no members of the audience. So, we will be moving on. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda please? >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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>> We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> The We are moving on to our regular agenda. And the first item on that agenda this evening is item 6.1, which

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is to consider a temporary noise permit for Floyd's Bar. This does in this item does contain a public hearing, but before we do that, I'll ask our community and economic development director, Jen Brewington, to present her agenda report. Miss Brewington, welcome this evening. Thank you, mayor and

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members of the council. Some just background information before we begin here. At the June 8th, 26 2026 council meeting, uh the council approved amendments to chapter 12, article 2, establishing a temporary noise permit process. The amendments provide a clear process for those requesting outdoor

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amplified music beyond 10 p.m. while balancing economic activity with the quality of life by nearby residents. The temporary noise permit process establishes 10 p.m. as a standard ending time for outdoor amplified music within the central business district.

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Businesses or organizations seeking to extend amplified music beyond that time must apply for a temporary noise permit. Each request is reviewed individually through a public hearing and requires city council approval, providing the flexibility for special events while ensuring transparency and consideration

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of potential impacts on nearby residents and businesses. Floyd's Bar has submitted a temporary noise permit application requesting approval to extend outdoor amplified music until 11 p.m. on the eight dates listed on the screen. And with that, I have a sample motion on the screen and

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can answer any questions. This item contains a public hearing uh for a a temporary noise permit for Floyd's Bar at 1758 Arborum Boulevard. I will now open the public hearing and anyone who wishes to speak to this item, please step forward.

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Anyone wishing to speak to this item can step forward. And last call. There's no one um who has opted to step forward. So, I will con uh close the public hearing and open the floor for discussion among the council

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members. Council, any further discussion on this motion? >> I'm assuming we have not we did not receive any complaints or anything with the previous temporary noise commits per member Robert. That's correct. >> Thank you. I guess I would just say

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most of the time this is intended for special events and basically letting them do this every weekend night of the summer is more than a special event. I think it's just regular and like listen I want them to

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succeed. I want them to do well. But um I also think it's a bit of an annoyance to the people around them every weekend of the summer to have to deal with it. So um I'm like I'm sure it's going to get approved again, but if it does, I

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think we should still put in the same restrictions that we did the last time that if if they have one instance of going over 11, it's the rest are gone. So that would just be my two cents. Okay. Council, any

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other comments, questions on this item? >> I would agree with Council Member Roberts on that. I think putting that same stipulation in makes a lot of sense due to some of the history here and um I think it just we owe it to the

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residents from that set. Well, I'm supportive of council member Roberts and council member Reich's uh proposed amendment to the the city of Victoria with respect to this temporary noise permit as has a zero tolerance

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policy on going past 11:00 on any late night and then any given violation that is duly noticed and has the the complaint process that we've previously laid out that you know that we've uh

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because we have to give the applicant due process. Uh it has to be um met to the standard that we've set before and then if if the standard if the if there's a violation and it meets the standard of uh complian non-compliance

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uh determination then we would go and we would revoke those further down the schedule from that point forward. >> Yeah. Miss Hardy please. Uh, mayor, members of the council, I just want to clarify that um

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that for the I don't remember the exact wording, but um you had empowered the city manager for the last round of temporary noise permits um for Floyd's that if they were to be in violation of

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that temporary noise permit, either observed by a city official, a city council member, or the deputies that the city manager could revoke any subsequent um times. So that um if we're talking

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due process generally um that I I just want to make sure that if you're that you're if if you're going to go down that path, if you want to do what you did before, um that that language would be similar language would be

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incorporated into this motion. But if you wanted a different process or due process for them where they would hold another public hearing and have an opportunity um to come before council that that proc that motion might look different than

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what you did before. So I just wanted to um note that as you're discussing >> madam city manager make thank you for making that clarification. I I wasn't clear to that specific point that uh but that is the spirit of what I was trying

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to go to with saying that to adopt that what we had adopt previously um empowering the city manager is to engage in the um enforcement action. I think that that's certainly where my mind is at. Um and you bring up an excellent

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point that that source can come in from a number of different um avenues as to where that infraction notification comes is also acceptable which is what we had before. Is that correct Miss Ber?

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>> Correct. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Any further conversation, comments, discussion? With that, I will entertain a motion. I'll u make a motion to

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uh grant the temporary noise permit to for Floyd's Bar to allow amplified outdoor music till 11 p.m. subject to the conditions approval for the dates as presented in this evening's meeting. >> Okay. And then is that and you

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understand the Fantastic. We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I >> any opposed? >> Nate. >> Motion carries. >> Do you have the dissension noted? Clerk.

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>> Yes, I do. Thank you. >> All right. Uh there are no more items on our regular agenda this evening. So, moving on to reports and emerging issues. Attorney VS, do you have any reports this evening? >> Good evening, Mayor. Council, um no. I wish I did, but I don't. I don't have anything to add. >> All right. Very good. Miss Hardy,

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anything from you this evening? >> Nothing from staff this evening, mayor. >> All right. and members of the council, anything to share this evening? All right, seeing none, there are no more items to come before the body this evening. So, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn.

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>> We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. And we stand adjourned.

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Good evening. It's now 5:30 and I call this regular meeting of the Victoria or this workshop of the Victoria City Council to order. Our workshops are informal. So, we're going to dive right into our agenda. We just have one item on the agenda this evening, which is um to hear and discuss the findings from

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the community engagement process and uh data collection regarding parking around downtown around our downtown parking. Uh presenting on that item this evening is our city manager, Dana Hardy. Miss Hardy welcome. >> Thank you, mayor, members of the council. We'll dive right in. Uh, as

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downtown Victoria has continued to evolve, parking has been one of the most common topics we hear about and you all have asked staff to take a comprehensive look at our entire parking system in our central business district. So, this evening, we're going to walk through, mayor, as you noted, what we learned

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through our engagement process earlier this year. We're going to compare those perspectives with objective data that we um collected through TC2, excuse me. And Lance Bernard from um TC2 is here. He'll be presenting some information to you a little bit later

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this evening. And then we're going to discuss some potential strategies to improve the parking experience today. And then some things um that we can be thinking about in terms of preserving flexibility so we can plan responsibly

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for tomorrow. So our downtown is growing and that in itself is a success story. One of the best problems any downtown can have is that more people want to spend time there. Residents come to enjoy our restaurants, our shops. They attend

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events. They're going to our trails. They're taking care of every day errands. And as that activity increases, parking has become one of the ways people experience our downtown. For some, we've heard that the issue is

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finding parking close to their destination. For others, we've heard that it's knowing where public parking exists or how event parking works. Those recurring conversations have prompted us to step back and look at those broader

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policy questions so we can better understand how to best resolve this challenge. Throughout our engagement process, we kept coming back to four policy questions. First, what problem are we solving? Is this primarily a

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proximity issue where parking exists but it's not always close or easy to find? Or is it a capacity issue? There just isn't enough supply or perhaps it's both. Second, what improvements matter

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most? Do we manage the existing system better? Do we add parking incrementally over time as opportunities present themselves? or do we invest in larger capital improvements or is it a combination of those things? Is it a

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timing issue? Third, how should we how should we fund those improvements? And then finally, what is that long-term strategy? We know our downtown is going to continue to evolve and parking decisions need to be part of that evolution.

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Before we discuss what we learned, I think it's helpful to just ground our discussion in our parking philosophy. Our downtown is designed to be walkable. Public parking is not intended to serve just one business or one destination. It

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supports many destinations in our downtown. First, the first principle is shared parking. Public parking isn't intended to serve businesses, visitors, employees, residents, and community events at different times. Second is

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that park once philosophy. One of our strengths downtown is that people can park once and comfortably walk to their destinations, their shops, trails, parks, and other community spaces. The third is to build for growth.

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Parking investments should support our future downtown developments while remaining fiscally responsible. These principles have long have a long history in Victoria. They've been developed with business and resident input and feedback and they have guided our previous

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decisions as it relates to parking in our downtown. So, one of the things we wanted to avoid was relying on a single source of information. We have intentionally built the process in layers. The interactive community workshop that we held earlier

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this year helped us hear ideas and concerns and priority priorities directly through dialogue. Our listening session that council provided gave residents and businesses the opportunity to share their experiences and their perspectives

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directly with you all. The resident and business surveys we conducted helped us understand more broadly these perspectives that were shared. And finally, we engaged TC2 to conduct some data collection for us so we could look at that data to determine whether

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community perceptions matched how the parking system is functioning. So each of these pieces informs the next, creating a more complete picture than any one method could. The resident survey received 841

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responses. 84% of those responses were residents of Victoria. We also received 21 responses from those surveys from downtown businesses. The surveys were not intended to stand alone. They helped

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validate many of the conversations we have heard during the workshop and the listening sessions through emails and formal and other informal uh sessions and interactions you've had with residents and businesses. Together, this engagement gives us both qualitative

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input and broader data to inform our policym. There were several themes that consistently emerged regardless how we engaged the community. Whether someone attended our interactive workshop or spoke during that listening session or

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completed the resident survey or responded to the downtown business survey, these ideas continued to surface. First, our downtown is successful. People value our downtown. They want to spend time here. Second, parking has become more challenging,

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especially as downtown activity has increased. Third, people support planning ahead rather than waiting until parking becomes a larger problem. And finally, there's strong interest in proving how today's system works before

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moving into direct capital investment. Businesses are experiencing parking differently than most residents because their perspective is operational. They hear customer feedback every day. They're observing those parking patterns. They know when parking is

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becoming difficult. This is especially during evenings and weekends and during those events. Nearly twothirds of our businesses identify parking as a significant issue. Businesses also expressed strong interest in having additional parking

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parking including structured parking. And at the same time, business support for directly funding those improvements was much more limited. This tells us that businesses see the need, but the funding strategy matters. Their

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perspective reflects operational impacts and a strong desire to expand parking availability in our downtown. Residents experience primary parking primarily as visitors to our downtown. One of the clearest findings is that

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people perceive parking as difficult. 61% said finding parking is somewhat or very difficult. At first glance, this may sound like the answer is simply to add more parking, but it is a little bit more nuanced than that. Most respondents

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indicated that they are willing to walk one or two blocks. That suggests that the challenge is not necessarily distance. They want people people want the parking to be easy to find, easier to understand, and reasonably close.

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Event parking also stood out as a larger concern. And this suggests that event parking may need a different solution or different strategies than what we have what we decide to implement for day-to-day parking. Residents generally

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support improving parking, but they were divided on larger investments and strongly opposed to property tax increases for the parking improvements. One of the most encouraging findings was not where people disagreed, but how much

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agreement existed. Residents and businesses arrived at many of the same conclusions despite viewing parking through different lenses. Both groups recognize that parking has become more challenging as we've grown or as it's redeveloped. Both groups support

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planning for future parking needs, but the greatest difference is around the scale and funding. Businesses expressed stronger support for structured parking. Residents were more mixed. Neither group expressed strong support for paying for

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major parking investments through property taxes or through direct business assessments. When we consider the engagement process as a whole, several common themes emerged. Residents again primarily describing their experiences as visitors

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to our downtown. Businesses being focused on customer access and the day-to-day operations. While they approached the issue from different perspectives, both groups identified many of the same priorities. Improving parking management, making parking

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easier to access and understand and planning for the future. Community engagement helped us understand how people are experiencing parking. The utilization study, the data collection portion is going to help us understand

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how the parking system is functioning or performing. Both perspectives are essential to making informed policy decisions, which brings us to that next question. Do community perceptions align with what the data collection found? So,

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I'm going to ask Lance to um step up to the podium and he will share more about the data collection process that he and his colleagues uh did and those related findings. >> Good evening, Lance. Welcome. >> Good evening, Mayor. members of the

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commission or council. Sorry. >> Would you would you kindly um introduce yourself and your com your business for our records. Thank you. >> So, my name is Lance Bernard, director of planning with TC2. I've had the opportunity to work on other studies for uh the city of Victoria for parking

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studies in the past. So, it's it's great to continue to have these conversations because that's really um a testament to how well downtown is doing that you are having these challenges and these conversations that need to happen and and part of that is always

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revisiting and trying to better understand how we can improve the customer experience, business needs and so forth. So there's a lot of cities that would love to be in this position that would love to have this sort of challenge to be recognizing that you've got a lot of economic opp economic development happening in the downtown, a

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lot of customers, a lot of um good things happening to um be proud of. So um that always then just comes with some tougher challenges around parking. Um, so we were asked by staff uh at the direction of the council to kind of get a little bit deeper into the data so we

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can really understand how people are using parking, understand the amount of parking that's being utilized, how often is it being turned over. Um, so this is really an opportunity us to sink our teeth into a little bit more of that data. We're actually will be back in

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front of the council here at a future meeting the near term where we can really sink our teeth into a lot of that data because we're still analyzing a lot of it. So tonight we're really just kind of providing the bigger picture of some of the key takeaways, things that we're starting to see with our analysis

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process. Um, so with that said, I think I just want to maybe point out the map that you have on the screen here is really where the focus of our data collection efforts have been um over the last month. Uh, this really

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mirrors the same data collection that has happened as part of past studies. uh with the last study um pretty much similar uh effort here in and where we were collecting data, but certainly there's some new uses um that have come online since the last study. You've

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added some more parking about 85 more stalls with some of that future development as well. So, right, things have changed. There has been some push and pull and and how people are uh utilizing parking in the downtown. Uh so what we have then really been uh charged

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with is to um right collect all of this new data. This was a recommendation from past studies. You have to continue to monitor understand those travel behaviors and certainly a lot has changed um within the last five years after COVID and again a lot of new

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development uh and new ways people are interacting with the downtown as well. Uh so our goal was really to focus on a couple key days. We always look at Thursdays and Saturdays as your typical peak periods of the week that experience a lot more parking demand in a downtown.

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Uh what we were collecting was uh traditionally utilization counts for all of the uh green lots on the map. So that's where we are looking at counting how many cars are parked in that specific um lot uh during the morning,

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lunch hour, afternoon, and evening. That gives us just a general picture then of um what's the capacity threshold? How many cars are there? How much excess supply or negative supply do you have in those lots? But what's unique about this effort now is we dug a lot deeper where

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we actually put up some cameras. We were counting then the turnover. How often are cars circling in and out of these lots so we have a better picture of the time amount of time that they are spending within these lots. Same for a number of the on street parking stalls as well. So, we were really focused on

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the core of um on street parking, Steager, Victoria, to then see are people truly adhering to those two-hour parking limits or are they staying longer? Uh what is that sort of turnover? Uh so, there's a lot more data that we're still analyzing and really

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trying to understand those those uh behaviors. Uh but what we are also looking more closely at then is um what we have for you tonight is really more of that district-wide parking approach. Um, as Dana mentioned, we really are looking at this from a district-wide. We

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really from a a parking planning, parking management standpoint in these type of environments, you're really trying to manage what you have to serve a number of uses. Uh, that we want to understand then um that district-wide level. And so we always then start off

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by just trying to understand the amount of parking that you have in your downtown regardless of ownership, regardless if it's it's on street or public or private. Uh we want to then kind of aggregate things up at that high level to then point us to maybe better

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ways to manage that uh parking over time. So sorry I'm kind of rambling here. So, um, the way we look at parking utilization from a district-wide is through kind of various thresholds. And as you start to reach 85% utilization of

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your entire study areas, when you start to see healthy utilization, you've got a lot of people in downtown, um, but you may be approaching capacity in certain areas. There may be some certain choke points as well that may be experiencing heavy utilization. But from a

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district-wide standpoint, um it's important to then sorry at a district-wide level, that's what we're trying to focus in on with the with these graphs here. Uh once you start to approach over 93%, that's when you really are experiencing heavy

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utilization. There's some choke points and you you may need to be considering how you add more parking to your supply in the downtown area. So, if we look at this from a district-wide perspective and just consider all the parking that's available, things are around that 80% um

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throughout the evening hour. That's the top top point of when downtown's really experiencing the highest amount of utilization as a whole. And so, when you look then backwards, you know, in the morning hours, that's when things are less utilized. Businesses are just starting to open. Employees are just

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starting to come downtown. And then throughout the day, things kind of amp up to that higher parking demand in the evening hour. Similar trend. So, this is a snapshot of what we saw for the weekday. Similar kind of trend on the weekend as well from a district-wide level. Uh things start off a little slow

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in the morning, but things ramp up throughout the day where you see um start to see much more uh utilization, more people parking in downtown. So, even though that we're seeing this from a district-wide level at that kind of 80% 85% where you're at or approaching capacity, that's not to say that there

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aren't some lots experiencing higher utilization. People are really attracted to the core. You know, the lots like the Burrow, that's the first lot that people tend to gravitate towards. That's the easiest one they see, highest visibility off of Highway 5. So, there's some kind

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of travel behaviors of what people know and what they see. Um, so there are some lots that we're seeing much more heavy utilization choke points, but then as you go further outside of the core, that's when things kind of taper off and you see a lot more excess parking that's available. That really just right away

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tells us that there's a better way to manage it. that if the expectation is that we're going to operate our parking from a district-wide level, there's a number of strategies we could apply to really make sure people are aware of how to use parking throughout the downtown and and adhere to that district-wide

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approach that the expectation may be to walk two blocks, maybe a little further uh to find that parking stall because we can't just always try to provide front door parking. You'll never win that battle if you're always trying to provide front door parking in a downtown environment. So, there has to be some

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trade-offs. There's some challenges to get there as well. Um, so as I said before, we're going to dig much more deeper into the data that we collected to really start to better provide some management operations and management strategies for you guys to consider as well. Um, some of the other kind of

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takeaways that we've started to look at that data much more closely is that um, people are parking on street for a longer period of time than what you're signed for. Part of that may be enforcement because there really isn't any active enforcement right now. But we were seeing a smattering of cars that

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are parked on street in front of businesses of excess to 4 to eight hours. So to us that suggests that they are possibly employees, staff um that are st spending longer periods of downtown or they may be patrons as well that are spending um a fair amount of time. Mary, did you have a question? No.

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>> Okay. >> Um so there's some things like that we're we're starting to kind of glean from the data. Um we still want to verify that. We want to really dig deeper into what that means. Um but there is certainly a lot more um heavy attraction to to the parking stalls

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within the core and that being kind of the front of businesses along the main drag and within some of those core lots as well. Um so that's just our our guess preliminary findings that we're just kind of giving you a precursor to because we'll really get more in depth with some of the data and findings the

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next time we're in front of you. um uh to share that information. Um yeah, so I think this is was this your slide, Dave? This is one I was like, "Wow, that's a new one to me." So, I think we're really here to just kind of keep the conversation going because we're going to have to have

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>> some um other conversations around some of the parking management strategies that we were starting to explore with staff behind the scenes. >> Yeah. I I think one of the things that I'm really curious about from a strategic direction, you know, we talk about having employees park further

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away, park elsewhere. Um, but we we consider how many employees every business has when we, you know, calculate the parking that's going to be needed for that business. >> What are some strategies right off the bat that we can implement around

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employee parking? I mean, not every employee is mobile, for instance, and and you know, we want we want them to know that they have a place downtown as well. So, >> mayor, council members, it's and this is a strategy that came out of the last

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study that there needed to be more time and energy spent around what employee parking looks like. Um, and that really needs to get business support as well because there's definitely needs to be a collective collaboration around that particular strategy. um identif identifying spaces, areas throughout the

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downtown that says this is really meant for employee parking. Um but it really does take, you know, a commitment from the city and others to really make that happen. Um so we have worked through similar strategies like that in in downtown Stillwater where we really are trying to dedicate space that really

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pushes employees there. Uh the other thing that you know I I want to be transparent about with those conversations then too is is um their safety and mobility like you said that's always part of that. So a lot of you know employees that might be getting off work late after the bars closing making

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sure they feel safe getting back to their car as well if they're being expected to park further away. So there's there's a lot to unpack with that strategy but it is definitely a viable one to work towards. >> Yeah. And I, you know, I think we some of the things that we've talked about is

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um it's it's not hard to walk two blocks on a beautiful summer day. It's a lot harder when it's 20 below zero and and you're parked two blocks away from where you want to be. But I think some of the things that the city has a responsibility to do is to make sure our streets and sidewalks are clean, that

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it's well lit and everybody feels safe walking around. I mean, I think those are all that the that the walk is pleasant, >> you know, that um I think those are some of the things that we we bear a responsibility to. >> Y >> So, how how about just in general

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because you've made the point and this is kind of to add on what mayor has talked about front door parking and kind of setting that expectation. Um you know, I've been to other cities where four or five blocks is pretty normal. three, four, five blocks. And I know it's weather, it's age, there's a

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number of things, but recommendations around setting that expectation with the residents, the businesses, etc. >> Yeah, >> I think that's important. >> Yep. Yep. I think you're you're spot on, council member, there is just that expectation and really adhering to that district-wide parking approach, knowing

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that there are some trade-offs and some challenges of managing the parking from that level because I'll I'll say it again. you're just not going to win that battle if you're constantly trying to provide front door parking for every person. So then a lot of those conversations really focus around how you manage your curb. What's your curb

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uh on street parking looks like? And really at a best practices standpoint, that's where you want to see the highest turnover. You want to limit that your hours and length of stay there. Certainly the increase in um food delivery services and um drop off

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services, car share programs. uh we're starting to look more closely at how do you manage then a bulk of those spaces for quicker turnover for drop off zones as well. And then as you start to look at your surface lots, that's where we really want people to have the ability to stay longer, you know, two, three,

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four hours to give them that flexibility. Uh the challenge with managing then time limits is enforcement and really what the city's position is on being u more active enforcers in in those time restrictions because at a at

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some point in time, people just know what they can get away with when when there really is an active forcement. So, that's always the biggest challenging um strategy to to take on as a city and many communities have to deal with that as well. >> So, just two quick questions, council

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member, >> uh just because time seems like it goes by too quick and I can't keep track. Uh Blue Agave was open when we did this. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yep. I just that's what I thought but I just want to make sure I'm uh

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saying um and then how do you take into account seasonal changes right so like one of the things that I noticed right like you would expect the weekend would be busier but it according to the graph it was not right I think it was at

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69% and the other one was seven >> yeah weekend was >> weekend was 69 and the other one I think was closer to 80 right So, um, like I mean, and I have some friends that waitress down here, right? Like, and

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they talk about how, you know, people go to their cabins on the weekend. The weather's nice, so you're grilling out. So, maybe it's less busy. So, how do you take into account, okay, in the summer maybe people are not around as much because they're at their cabins, but then in the winter, sure, people travel, but

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>> I feel like we're then probably much more busy down here because people are around. they want to go out and enjoy a meal when they can't, you know, when they're freezing cold, right? So, I I guess how do you >> account for that? >> It's it's a great comment, uh, Council

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Member Roberts, because what we have is a snapshot in time, right? So, there will always be questions behind is that the right snapshot in time. Um, we typically always try to capture these counts during the summer because that's when we think >> you aren't battling with the cold winter and people are are out and about. Um,

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but as we start to look more closely at this data, we can certainly provide some seasonal factors into it to kind of bump up the numbers, play with the numbers to see if we really have that accurate picture. Uh, so there are some percentages we can kind of play with to maybe dial it in a little bit closer. Um

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I just will make the one point of clarification as you look at those two highle graphs that we have in there is the orange my eyesight's going >> is street >> is yeah your on street and then your blue is your off streetet lots as well.

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So as you kind of aggregate that all together you're still somewhere kind of at that middle middle thresholds of where we were seeing those counts in that point in time. Um, but not to belabver it too much, but I think as we start to break down these

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numbers is to recognize some of those are public and private, right? So, what is really the utilization of your public lots and that will be probably another telling story compared to say the burrow lot that is private. So, we'll we'll do that balancing because um we want to see

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and understand what the city's responsible for, what the businesses are providing as well. Now, again, I'll end by saying at the end of the day, somebody pulls into downtown, they don't necessarily care who owns that lot. They're just going to grab that parking stall right away. So, that's that's another part of this kind

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of uh operations and management plan is how do we really perceive public and private lots and um that's that's conversations we'll continue to have. >> All right. Any other questions for Lance before we let him sit down again?

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>> All right. Thanks, Lance. Stay close. We probably have some more questions for you. All right, Miss Hardy, back to you. >> Thank you, mayor, members of the council. So, um, so as you're starting to probably pick up on, no single source is providing a complete picture. So, the

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community engagement helps us understand how people are experiencing parking. The businesses are helping us understand how parking affects their day-to-day operations. And then the data collection or the utilization data is helping us understand understand how that parking

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system is performing. If we relied only on the utilization study, we would we would understand the parking system and how it functions, but we would not see how people are experiencing that. If we relied only on the community engagement,

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we would understand people's experiences, but we wouldn't know if those experiences were aligning with the data that we were collecting. So together, these perspectives give us a much more complete understanding of those opportunities and the challenges

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that we're experiencing as it relates to parking in our district. When we compare the engagement with the utilization study, several observations began to emerge. And I think the conversation that you all were just having and the questions that you were asking are

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hitting on some of the things that you're going to see in these um subsequent slides. Um, let's talk about our current situation. Downtown parking signs have been installed in different locations for

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different purposes and they are fairly inconsistent. So, we do have an inconsistent system today which can be difficult to quickly understand. Signs use different designs and colors. Uh, even terminology, the enforcement hours

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vary. Overnight restrictions are not consistently communicated. Some of the signs are only using that letter P. Other signs use the word parking. Does not clearly distinguish public parking from private or customer. Only parking

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and sign placement and visibility vary through downtown. So there is an opportunity here. The current signage does not provide clear or consistent visual system for directing visitors to our downtown to the public parking places or explaining any applicable uh

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restrictions. So, a coordinated sign family could make public parking easier to identify, could simplify those regulations and com and create more predictable downtown parking experience for people. In terms of planning for the future,

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council, you've already taken an important policy step by recently expanding tiff district 1 nine, which is the roars district downtown. This action preserves flexibility for you all to evaluate future parking opportunities as

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downtown continues to evolve. Importantly, the action does not approve a specific project or commit to this commit the city to any future investment at this time. It does however preserve options while redevelopment

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opportunities continue to evolve. The projected tax increment assumptions for the expanded district that we used when you all created that expanded district were based on discussions with private property owners regarding potential

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redevelopment opportunities through the April 2029 time frame. That time frame again driven by state statute. The policy value of this action is flexibility. It preserves flexibility so

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future decisions can be made using the best information available at the time they are considered. Recommendations that uh the recommendations that follow will build on the same philosophy. taking practical steps today to improve

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the parking experience while also making sure that you have flexibility to make decisions about uh parking in the future. So the question becomes how do we improve today's parking experience while

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planning responsibly for tomorrow and these are some of the things that you were questioning and asking Lance about. So hopefully some of these will um resonate, but the engagement process and the parking utilization study made it clear that there isn't a single

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recommendation that will address every parking challenge that we have. Instead, um they'll point towards a series of practical or incremental improvements that can enhance the current system and how that's functioning while we continue

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to figure out a longer term solution. One of the clearest themes throughout the engagement process was that many people are simply unaware of where public parking is located. It does not necessarily mean that parking is unavailable. In many cases, public

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parking in the district exists, but it may not always be obvious or intuitive to find, and it may not be in that ideal location. improved signage, directional wayfinding, or updated parking maps. Maybe even website enhancements, or a

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plan your plan your visit campaign or resource can help our visitors to our downtown understand where parking is available before they even arrive. Our 2027 per 2027 proposed budget, you may recall, includes funding for downtown

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wayfinding and signage. Um, and that proposal reflects some of the current discussions that you've had or more recent discussions that you've had related to wayfinding and downtown parking. Convenient parking works best when it turns over regularly and you heard Lance

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speak to that. Um, as it relates to that kind of front door parking um, the parking in those key areas. Throughout the engagement process, community members told us they value parking close to their destination. Businesses also emphasized that convenient customer

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parking is important to their success. The parking utilization identified opportunities to improve the availability of convenient customer parking through operational strategies that encourage regular turnover. And as Lance and his team dive deeper into that

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analysis, we'll have some additional um specific uh options or things for you all to consider um for future discussions. But just to be thinking about perhaps some of those strategies, they could include a quick stop park uh quick stop

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parking uh near high demand businesses or clearer time limit signage or educational enforcement that encourages appropriate use of short-term parking. The intent is to improve customer access by helping convenient parking remain

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available for the people who need it most. These solutions can be implemented relatively efficiently and for a low cost. So making better use of existing parking uh is align is directly in alignment

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with our long our long-standing parking philosophy that shared parking the park wants and planning for growth that we talked about earlier this evening. Strategies include making better use of underly underutilized public parking,

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evaluating restriping opportunities where feasible, and identifying additional on street parking opportunities where appropriate. We could also explore uh additional shared parking partnerships and evaluate different operational strategies to

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improve customer access. So, these can be things uh all things that we could be looking to implement enhancing our downtown experience and mayor that this gets to some of the things that you were speaking about. Um

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safe sidewalks, attractive walking routes, lighting, uh making sure that we have clear and safe connections that are intentional and thoughtful. uh making it easier for people to park once and enjoy multiple town town destinations safely.

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This reinforces that parking is not simply about where vehicles are stored, but how people yet can meaningfully enhance people's experience parking downtown.

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Communication and awareness is uh one of the themes that we uh that rose to the top during all of our engagement uh initiatives. Better communication before events may be one of the simplest and most cost-effective opportunities that

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we have to improve the parking experience. We also heard that many people are just simply unaware of where public parking is located and which parking areas are available during events. So updated parking maps, website

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enhancements, parking guidance for events, business toolkits, all of these things could be explored to help visitors better understand the parking options before they even arrive to our downtown.

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The engagement process also challenged us to think beyond today's parking needs. Victoria will continue to evolve over the next decade and beyond. And as redevelopment occurs downtown, where people live, where they work, where they shop, where they gather will continue to

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change. So that means our parking system should continue to evolve alongside our downtown. Future parking decisions uh should be informed through community input, objective data, and redevelopment opportunities. All things that council, you have um have a longstanding practice

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and history of doing. This is reflecting a balanced approach where we're planning for future needs while continuing to improve the experience today. Our engagement initiatives also highlighted that funding future parking improvements

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is an important policy consideration. Both businesses and residents believe additional parking is needed, but support for using property taxes or direct business assessments is limited. The good news is that we have access to a variety of tools that could be

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utilized to help support future parking investments. Those tools include the public private partnerships, shared parking agreements, redevelopment partnerships or use of parking funds or tax increment financing. We're eligible and you've already taken that import

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taken that important step in expanding TF9 uh19 the roars tip district to provide that opportunity. Also, council, you could consider making modifications to our existing parking ordinance as it relates to parking requirements or how parking requirements

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are calculated. Of course, um long-term that capital investment, if there are other redevelopment opportunities or some of the other uh tip opportunities or some of those public financing tools available to us, those are policy considerations that could help fund a

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larger capital investment. Ultimately the engagement and the data collection we did not identify any specific parking project or funding strategy that but we hoped this evening would just provide you a better perspective on what we were hearing what we're learning and help

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provide the start of a framework that will allow for future decision making. So on that note um I just want to open it up to hear your thoughts. Um, we've put two

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questions out there just as a a prompt, but we're happy to take any questions or um invite council discussion. >> Thank you. Um, a a couple of questions for you. I know um that this has not

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been something that council has been supportive of in the past, but in your public engagement, did we talk about paid parking for users, like parking meters, that kind of stuff? Did we ask the question? Do we How do people feel about that? >> Mayor, members of the council, off the

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top of my head, I don't believe we did ask that specific question. I think we kept it more broad um for this latest survey. However, back in I believe 2019, uh if memory serves, we did uh do a

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workshop that specifically looked at and some engagement around that question. Um, and that at that time there was not support from the community for paid parking in Victoria, but that does not mean that we could not revisit that if that's something that you all wanted to

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revisit. >> Okay. Thank you. And then I another question that I had is around shared parking agreements. Um, you know, I think we do have a couple of um private properties and business private businesses that have shared parking agreements. Does the city have a role in

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that? uh mayor, members of the council, we can have a role. Um it depends on I would say it's a case by case by case basis. It really depends on um the project how approvals were put in place. So if an initial approval had a

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cup, if the cup needed to be modified, it would have to go through that um conditional use permit um modification process to do that. However, if the parking was um provided through just straight code um and there was a private

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agreement and that private agreement was demonstrated was able to be demonstrated and we had that documented somewhere um which could have happened at the staff level informally. Um those things are put with the um the project files. So we

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have record um that that's there and they're meeting the requirements and this is how they're meeting those requirements. Um we've done that too. So there can be a role um just making sure that there is adequate parking especially as uses change.

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Um but it really how formal or informal that role is depends on how the parking was approved in the first place. So, um, any downtown business, and I feel like there's something like this in

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place that I've heard about, too, where I'm making a deal with the bank who's not open during the evening hours, our employees can park in their lot. That's not something that we would facilitate or negotiate, but it's something that private property owners could do. Okay. >> They could do.

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>> Okay. And then you mentioned the 2019 study. Um, and maybe Lance, this is a question for you. Do we have comparisons from the 2019 study to the current day study about how different those utilization patterns are or has so much

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changed in that seven years? Are we seven years past 2019 that it's it's no longer useful data for us? >> Yeah, mayor and council members, we we were just starting to kind of sniff around what the data was telling us in 2019 and back at a high level

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utilization rate from a district perspective. then things still seem about the same. Um, but there are still the similar trends that we're seeing with with choke points in some of the lots as well, but back to the outskirts. As you get a block or two away, that's

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where we see less utilization as well. But we'll look more closely at that. Um, but things have changed so much in the last, you know, six, seven years where you have brought on new development, new tenants, um, added more parking, managed things a little bit differently. So, um,

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it's just always the ongoing conversation and and that's why we always recommend to continue to update your data to see what's happening. >> From a best practices, stay with us here for a second, Lance. From a best practices standpoint, um,

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what is a great indicator that it's time to add parking? So if you are at 85% capacity for more than x amount of hours, more than x amount of days a week, >> you better be thinking about adding parking. What What is that from a best

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practice? Yeah, from our perspective, if you really start to see the bulk of your whole district and all of these lots and on street parking above that 90 93% is when we really start to challenge ourselves of how do we add more parking or how do we do

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something significantly different to to alleviate those choke points. We use that 93% threshold as kind of a cap where you still want to have 7% of your system available for turnover internal traffic circulation so you're not you

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know causing these choke points. from our field observations and folks that experience downtown with colleagues as well um have have not seen or seen those like traffic circulation issues where you're you're at gridlock and people are can't get in and out of

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the lots um that you really can't find a spot. I think from our field observations and again dialogue we've had with folks at Experience Victoria said well yeah it's it may be challenging at times but I do find a space but I did have to kind of figure out where to go. it was a block or two away. Um, and then there may have been

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some questions about can I park here? Back to some of the the wayf finding strategies that I think can go a long way to help alleviate some of those things as well. So, long- winded response to your question, >> but I I I mean, I think all of that is is very helpful. I know one of the things that I always when I ask people

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about parking, I mean, I'm out and about quite a bit in the evening time when things are busy down here and I tend to ask people where did you park and was it difficult to find a place to park and I think there you know certainly I hear

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yes depending on what you know yes it was difficult to park yes I found a place but um I feel like people almost always find a place nobody well of course if they must have found a place if I'm talking to them. If they drove away, they wouldn't be talking to me, I guess. But,

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>> you know, I just that that's the kind of thing that I I would really want to get my arms around is um one of the things I hear about is we don't know where to park and I think the signage could go such a long way. Um somebody had mentioned to me all the where you park

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is up here and my eyesight is here and if I'm new to this town, I'm looking where I'm going and I'm not looking up here for parking signage. So, I think that's, you know, thing that we can improve on. >> Yeah. And I I will add real quick, part of our effort was to do a sign inventory

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as well. So, we have a digital file of where all the parking signs are located and we will come back with a hierarchy of signage and some strategies on how to actually move forward to a sign plan. >> Great. So, with that, thank you. With that, I'm going to be quiet and ask council if they have questions and

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comments. Of course, council >> and I'm not sure I'm not and this might be a question for Lance, but would it be helpful for us to have that data for spotlight events like >> classic car night, concerts in the park,

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um other events that were that are happening because that's where people are coming down here, they're driving in, they can't find anywhere to park now, they're not going to return. So my goal is to essentially improve the customer experience

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and how do we do that? Are are those spotlight events is it important to have the data then or are we just going to be looking at you know kind of average days? Those would be my my thoughts on anything else we could possibly do with it. Um,

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you know, just brainstorming. Again, this is nothing serious, but restriping, you know, helps adds a few different spots. Um, consistent parking signs, um, additional partnerships.

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Um, not sure how you would work that, but how full is Rose private parking and is that something where we could possibly create a partnership for people who are working in the downtown to park in, let's say, a public parking spot in

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the row facility or, you know, we try to get them to park down Stiger Lake Lane more often than the the convenient spots for for customers. Um, I don't know. Those are just some of my brainstorming ideas that I've been

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jotting down as we go through here. >> I I want to talk a little bit about um event parking. So, our car classic car night things so fun and really well attended and people don't have any problem parking all the way down County

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Road 11 for classic car night because I see it all the time. But what about utilization of a shuttle? Did you get when you talked to folks about parking, did we ask the question, would you utilize a shuttle? Would it be for special events or would you do it more

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often? And what would that shuttle circulation need to look like in order for it to make you want to take it? I mean, if you have to if you come down for dinner and your dinner is finished and you're standing outside for 15 minutes waiting for a shuttle, that's probably not okay. But if you know another one's coming along in five

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minutes, that's probably great. And then and that would give us some opportunity. So, did we ask that question? >> Mayor, members of the council, we did not get that far in asking that question. So, that was something that earlier this year um I'll say early

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spring, late winter when we had um kind of an initial conversation around this this year around parking. That was one of the potential options that we could have a shuttle service. It could be kind of a circular service. It could be destin there were a couple options.

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That's um we didn't we got some highle costs. We looked at what the circulation potential could be. It could go all the way down to uh the rec center Lions and then have a couple drop off spots downtown. Um that's about as far as we

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got uh with that. Um but we're happy to revive that if that's something you and do some additional engagement around that to see if there's interest. than that if that would be the desire of council. I actually had that note as well just because right with parking

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it's always that catch 22 right because you want to have enough parking but you don't want to have so much parking that when those special events don't happen that now you have a bunch of empty lots right and so I think and this is where you talk about public p public private

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partnership right can we you know come to an agreement with someone where we yeah we split costs on a shuttle for the I don't know how many it's what every other week And how many do we have in a summer? I mean, it's not a ton, right? So, I mean, there we're not talking about every week out of the year. We're

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talking about a limited amount in the summer, which you know, if it's raining a lot, a lot of times they get cancelled. So, people I would think would be more willing to sit outside for 5 10 minutes in nice weather to take a shuttle then. So that's one of those

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things where I definitely have that on my >> Yeah, I think a pilot project on shuttle service >> or what are the options at least like what I mean? >> I think a good pilot would be the spotlight events to try it >> and then that almost leads into the

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evolution of Victoria with Downtown West and some of these other things >> because is that center of downtown evolving? Maybe even moving, maybe even multiple centers, >> right? >> Do we see enough So >> enough parking issues for like even like

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light up Victoria, right? Like I you know like like you said those spotlight events. >> So that could be and the other thing is I think wait time came up. I took an Uber recently and I had to wait 15 minutes for an Uber. >> It's going to you're going to have to wait.

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>> Would you rather wait or would you rather walk? I mean right. So you have >> even at an airport you have to wait for an Uber. So it's just life. So >> all right. Very good. I I think that that fundamentally some we have a couple questions before us that staff needs. We

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should address those questions um so that we're not you know bogged down in solutioning before we really have an accurate assessment of the problem. So that said, I would say your first

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question, Dane, that you have here, madam city manager, I I feel as though the answer to that question is yes. The the study does accurately reflect what

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the problems are facing downtown. I think that that's brought out by some of the high level uh results that that there are various layers of solutioning and we should have an exploration of those those layers. So that sort of then

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brings down to the your second question is what would we believe is helpful and I I think that codifying what those what I'm going to say like a rank ordering like so what is the simplest that comes all the way down to the most difficult

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and that can be you know phased in two ways. One um on the basis of effort and one on the basis of cost. Um and then certainly within that you know the the cost aspect is you know h what kind of solutions would there be available to

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address those? We we have added tools recently to address the costs, but th those tools should not be utilized until we can have enough accurate information to make a a sound, reasonable decision

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that's data driven. The loudest voices are not necessarily the voices that are most correct. And that I think has to be our guiding principle here. These problems were not created overnight. They're not going to get solved overnight. And there's serious resources that are going to be needed to do it.

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And it's the taxpayers of V of of Victoria that are going to be part of that solution. They they've given us their opinion as to how they want that solved. And they've spoke. Anybody who's read the survey results hears it loud and clear. Uh I don't think there's any

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ambiguity of what we're being told there. So, I I would like to see us be able to have reason solutions before we then start to reach into those toolkits and figure out how we're going to utilize those toolkits, you know. And then, you know, I'll just on other

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comments that we should take into consideration. There are other things that we need to see the fullness of time unfold a little bit before we start jumping into solutions. We still have downtown west that we have invested heavily of our

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taxpayers resources into that. We need to suess see success there and see how those impacts spill over because it it would it would not do the citizens of Victoria very well to make a decision that then gets impacted by something

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that was unforeseen in that space. And then we can't discount the fact that additional development is a place that can be utilized to solve some of these problems that are here. And there are other areas of the city that are ripe for redevelopment. And that's where we

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should be looking to use those toolkits and partnering with that to maximize what the the citizens of Victoria's um well spent tax dollars go to. I would just say I mean I think right

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there's long term and there's short term and I think right like whether it's us building a structure ourselves or it's something built because of redevelopment I mean those are obviously long term like it's not happening overnight right like that is something that's going to

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take some time to do um but there are lots of little thing I mean you know we you know yes blue agave just opened And I'm sure traffic is much heavier there now than it probably will be,

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right? With any new restaurant, new things, people want to go, right? So, it's busier. That's going to affect parking. But we also have another restaurant that's going to be opening, right? So, I do have concerns about where we're at right now. And if we can do smaller things that will help, right,

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it might be putting a band-aid on a bullet wound, right? like but or lipstick on a pig, whichever metaphor you want to use, right? Like but if there are things we can do to help in the interim before we get right before we decide before we get all

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the data on right whether it's redevelopment to build something whether it's us building at the taxpayers's expense right like there are things we can do and one of the things that we I think I I would propose doing is so

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I tried looking back. I wanted to look back at the row project because it's been three years and it's like I can't remember what our thinking was, right? Like I mean and obviously even the city has changed in those three years when we approved it.

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But I was looking and right so part of our ordinances right we have the amount of parking that they need to have per square footage but as part of this uh CBD right we can reduce that by 50%. Right? because it's shared parking. So,

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we are we you know, people should be able to share parking. They don't need exactly, you know, what our ordinance says. You know, we reduced the uh apartments from what, two per unit to one and a half. I was perfectly fine with that

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because I think that's enough parking for an apartment complex. Reducing like the orthodontist from 10 spaces to five, again, 50%, I think that's fine because My kids have gone there. There's never 10 people at an orthodontist, right?

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Like you're not going to have 10 cars at an orthodontist. That's fine. Where I think the issue is and where I would like to see the potential change or at least talk about more is with those businesses where their primary hours affect the evening. Right? An orthodontist

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regular businesses are if you know they're 7 to 5 or 9 to5 or whatever they're not affecting, right? Like we've seen like the parking is fine there. So reducing those 50%. Doesn't really necessarily affect our downtown parking because there's plenty

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of shared parking during the day by based off of what we've seen. It's right. What's driving the parking issues is are our restaurants because they're so popular because people want to be down here and do them. And so I I I

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look back and I'm like I don't I don't think we should be reducing or at least we should be having a larger conversation. And what I couldn't tell from back then was from the packet I did not have time to watch the re-watch the meeting. in the packet.

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It wasn't super clear, and I'm sure we talked about it, but it wasn't super clear to me that we were reducing it 50%. Where like again, it could we could have talked about it in the presentation. I

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just didn't watch it, but in the packet, it wasn't clear. So, just making sure like for future restaurant, right, like that we're we're not reducing that. And then that tells us, right, like if we don't reduce it and we're like, well, there's not enough available parking to

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get to that number. Um, or maybe it's not 50%, maybe it's only 25%. We do, right? So, um, but if we can't get to that number, then we know we have a bigger problem, right? And then we do have to do something more. So, that's one of those things where I I for those night businesses where it's the

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nighttime driving hour like that drive the like I think we need to take a a bigger look at that and not just automatically reduce it by 50%. >> All right, let's let me uh take a shot at kind of wrapping this all up in a bow. So, I think um you know to council

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member uh Robert's point um as new businesses come online, we should really have a a great robust conversation about parking. And even though we've applied that standard in the past, we want to take a look at anything that we have coming on in the future. The things that

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we can do now, um and you had a good list of those. Um, enforce the the time limits. Make the signage consistent. Um, business toolkits, great idea. Plan your

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visit. Another great idea. Um, anything that we can do that helps the the the customer find their parking spot here, we should utilize. And um I know we've done a really great job providing toolkits to businesses from our you know

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from the resources here at city hall to say you know link your website to our website so you can see where the parking is all of those kinds of things. I think all of those are great initial first steps that we can take. Um did I forget anything? Oh and maybe let's think about

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doing a pilot program with the shuttle. >> Can well mayor I think we need a dual path in this >> certainly. And we talked about rank ordering and without mentioning it, council member Roberts laid that out in in a form rather than fashion. But one path

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is, you know, core parking issues that we're talking about here. The other path is the the event uh process where these are exigent circumstances. they they create consternation and you know where we can

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then employ some of these pilots and creative solutions to that. I mean we are going to also we should I didn't hear but you know educational campaigns to citizens getting things out in newsletters say something like hey Victoria is a walkable city and point

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out some of the things that we've done as council in trying to make Victoria more walkable over the years and it's going to get even better. We still have highway five that needs to be done >> and before we start committing large dollars, we we need to see the impact of

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how that change is going to happen. We're going to get tunnels that go under Highway 5 to make pedestrian access better. We're going to get an overpass that's going to make access better. And to be able to bring a campaign to say, "Hey, sometimes the best parking spot is

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no parking spot. Let's use our feet." Um, I think we've all have seen that I have been a huge proponent over the years of trying to, you know, either walk to city council meetings, walk home from city council meetings, not take up parking spaces so that we just reduce

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the demand. Sometimes it's about consciousness and education to bring that message to solve those problems. every car that we can pull out of downtown is one more car that is a potential of another car. That's not a gonna say that there's a problem. And

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then lastly, we've talked about this before. There are people who are using the trail as a recreational service and they're taking the prime spots from downtown businesses. And we we should

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figure out a way that we can educate people, put up signage to Chad's point, that trail parking, you know, we can we can make accommodations for that. Uh, and like we've said, not everybody is going to listen to that, but awareness

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is is a huge part of our toolkit. >> Very good. >> Can I ask a quick question? I know we're running low on time. Uh, do we know how many spots >> because I don't feel like we have a lot that actually have twoour parking signs right now. I feel like right out here there's a few kind of by Winchester and

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Ry, but even those I feel like isn't it only during the day and it's not after 5:00 p.m. or am I reversing that? I feel like only it's like 9 to5 or something like that. 2our parking. >> I think your your one of your pictures had it on there. 8 to 5 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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>> Mayor, members of the council, Council Member Roberts, I don't this goes back to the inconsistency, so I don't want to miss speak here, but I Yes to all of that. I just was curious like yeah like is it only a few like do we want more? I mean I hate to also like limit people right

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you come down here and you want to watch the Vikings game at Vix or something right like football's three hours so like you don't want to limit people's but you know maybe it's not every parking spot but we add a few more or is it at night instead of just 9 to5 but

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again like then it's who's out there watching to make sure they move. I don't know. My only one last other comment is uh to I think Greg was talking about handouts and stuff like that, but like you know are our businesses willing to put handouts in, you know, like in their

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vestibule if they have one or whatever, right? For here's a map to show you the parking so that the next time you come, you know, right? Like again, just trying to think of simple ways that educate people that don't cost a lot of dollars.

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>> Good. Thank you, Miss Hardy. Yes. >> Thank you, mayor. members of the council. Uh, council member Roberts, just real quickly to kind of build on what you were talking about, um, one of the things staff will be doing is meeting with Lance and his team to as we drill into that data. Um, yes, we have

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some of those, um, signage to promote circulation and turnover. Um, but do we have enough? Are they the correct as do we 15 minutes and two hours are pretty typical downtown? Do we have enough? are they in the right locations? Those are

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things that we're exploring. Um, and we'll continue to explore as part of this process. So, as we do the deeper dive into that analysis and we'll be coming back with very specific recommendations and as I'm hearing

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consensus around um maybe um that um uh rank order, Council Member Ivansky, that you hadn't talked about that there's maybe um different from simple to um mo

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most complex in terms of cost and effectiveness or like efficiency to implement um as it relates to the day-to-day parking um solutions or strategies as well as event and then trail. So maybe we have

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three buckets. So I feel like I was seeing consensus and head nods on that if we can incorporate that into our follow-up discussion. >> Great. I had just one last comment. Sorry. Um >> thank good. So, oh yeah, the other um

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thing is right, we have like a wide range of people, right? So, we have a lot of seniors that like to right and we talk about this in every walk of life, making sure we get things out that, you know, are all over social media but find a way to get it to our seniors. So, the handout type thing, right, would help

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people who maybe aren't online and that stuff. But another option for our younger crowd maybe, you know, are there apps out there? You think of our GPS apps, right, like Ways and things like that. you know, you're driving and it's like, oh, someone spotted a cop up ahead

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two miles, right? So, is there apps out there for parking that people can put in like I saw a parking, right? There's a parking spot here, right? So, um that help you know obviously we you know you can't we you know we can't afford things like the airport has where it tells you

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you know like there's mechanisms that tell you yeah there's 40 spots left or whatever and it gives you a green light or whatever but maybe there's people things that you know with public help we can >> tech I yeah technology is a great >> resource and I know we looked into it

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number of years back but you know technology comes down in price so all right Last thoughts before we wrap this up. >> I know we're stealing your bundle here, but the only thing you didn't mention was additional partnerships, and I think that's an easy couple phone calls. If Row has 30 spots being taken up, is

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there a way that they can have the people that are leasing out the other offices, Blue Agave, the orthodontics, whatever else is in there to see if they can park their employees in those spots. Again, additional partnerships, I think,

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is something that we should take a look at. And if it's there, great. If not, we tried. >> Yeah. Well, it it is certainly top of mind for this council and the city staff, and we work on it continuously. We talk about it a lot. So, we will uh

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forge ahead and continue to tackle the problem. So, with that, there's no more other items on our workshop agenda this evening. So, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. We have a motion and a second.

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All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. We stand adjourned.