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HomeMy WebLinkAboutParking Advisory Board - Minutes - 03/13/2017MINUTES of the CITY OF FORT COLLINS PARKING ADVISORY BOARD March 13, 2017 5:30 p.m. 215 North Mason – Community Room Fort Collins, CO 80524 FOR REFERENCE: Chair: Holly Wright Vice Chair: Bob Criswell Staff Liaison: Kurt Ravenschlag 221-6386 Administrative Support: Melissa Brooks 224-6161 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: CITY STAFF PRESENT: Holly Wright, Chair Kurt Ravenschlag, Transfort/Parking General Manager Bob Criswell, Vice Chair Melissa Brooks, Transfort, Administrative Aide Nora Hill Timothy Wilder, Transfort, Service Development Manager Carey Hewitt Kayla Boos Sara Kammlade Barbara Wilkins ABSENT: OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE Councilmember Kristen Stephens N/A Susan Kirkpatrick Nicholas Bohn 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair, Holly Wright called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm. 2. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS 3. AGENDA REVIEW No changes were made to the agenda. 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Criswell moves to accept February 2017 meeting minutes, Criswell seconds. Minutes were approved unanimously. Meeting Minutes March 13, 2017 5. COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT 6. PUBLIC COMMENT 7. DISCUSSION/INFORMATIONAL ITEMS A. Continued Discussions: RP3 Commuter Permits, PAB The commuter permits are for nonresidents to park in the RP3 zones. They cost $40 a monthly and parking occupancy is around 25% - 50%. The discussion last month revolved around parking deserts and how parking is underutilized compared to the densities in those areas. It was discussed to possibly reducing the price, promoting the permit more to the CSU community, and reducing the percentage form 70% to 60% occupancy rate. Ravenschlag stated that when the price was set, Staff looked at the various permits for sale on campus. There are some that are less than $40 per month that are for certain buildings and users. There are also lots that are significantly more. Staff came up with the middle range with the thought that this is an area that is further from the core of campus, is less convenient and not in high demand. Staff is going to a Council Work session at the end of March which was prompted by this conversation. There has been feedback to City Council that the commuter permit pricing is to low and should be higher than the cost of CSU permits. The location of where people park gravitate towards campus with the first block usually having a higher occupancy and if more permits are sold, block faces should be assigned so it is 60% per block face. The sales could increase because it has not be widely advertise that there are commuter permits, but most fundamentally disagree about paying for parking. CSU is such an asset to the City and boosts the City’s economy so much and would like to give students a break and employees. This asset needs to be embraced and help people out by making it affordable. It is about quality of life, not about making money. Make it equitable so it isn’t a desert or to full. The parking challenges and the pressure being put on parking supplies are changing people’s behaviors. Transit ridership has significantly increased and there is a correlation to when CSU permit prices increases so does Transfort ridership. Staff wants to make sure each permit sold is evaluated. If there were a 100 on street spaces in a particular zone and 100 permits were sold, that doesn’t me there will be 100 cars parked there. Permits would be oversold. That is an area that occupancy levels have to be evaluated to determine what the oversell rate would be, which is based on demand. Making it available on line would make them more accessible. B. Game Day and Stadium Event Parking The IGA between the City and CSU states that parking management would be provided for events at the stadium that are considers as a major event, 12,000 or more attendees. All football games fall within this requirement. There could also be events outside of games that would meet the threshold to where the City would provide services. There are six home games scheduled for 2017. The PAB discussed at the last meeting the RP3 not be implemented on game days. People could freely park in the neighbors. The City has been conducting outreach with the RP3 neighborhoods and discuss the possibility of Meeting Minutes March 13, 2017 RP3 being implement on game days. Property owners are voting on whether to implement or not. 50% of owners must participate in the vote. There were a lot of concerns from neighborhoods that surround campus about the impact from events, spill over parking into neighborhoods. City Council tasked staff with developing a program that would mitigate the parking impacts in these neighborhoods. Based on that guidance this was the program staff developed. They took the existing RP3 program that is in place Monday – Fridays and tweaked it to have desired effects during events. One was the price of the fine going from $25 to $100. Households can access only two guest permits, during the week more than 2 permits is allowed per household. It is being presented to the neighborhoods in same way as the current RP3, they can vote on if they want the program. The stadium has 40,000 seats and how will parking be accommodated? If parking was distributed around campus at the end of the event traffic will dissipated a lot easier than coming from just a few spots. Throughout the process of this conversation the City has required that CSU insure they are doing what they can to mitigate impacts to the neighborhoods through improving access to campus, assisting with increasing intersection capacity at certain locations. Impacts off campus like parking that is where Council wanted to create the IGA that captured the elements of CSU would be responsible for. Mitigating parking impacts in neighborhoods was one element that the City would provide the service and CSU would compensate the City for providing it. Residents can purchase game day permits. Question is could permits be sold to people outside of the neighborhood and currently they cannot be purchased by nonresidents. The board believes game day permits should be available to nonresidents. There is a price to pay for living in a college town, but there are many benefits too. The board does not agree with offering an RP3 program at events. If an RP3 is approved large event parking, permits should be available to nonresidents. 8. ACTION ITEMS A. Approve Memo to Council about RP3 and Stadium Event Parking Criswell motions to approve the memo to Council and Boos seconds. The motion passes unanimously. 9. REPORTS A. BOARD REPORT B. STAFF LIAISON REPORT 10. OTHER BUSINESS None 11. ADJOURN Hewitt motioned to adjourn and Hill seconds. The meeting was concluded at 7:18 pm. Respectfully submitted, Melissa Brooks Administrative Aide Transfort/Parking Services