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HomeMy WebLinkAboutParking Advisory Board - Minutes - 09/09/2019PARKING ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR Monday, September 9, 2019 5:30 PM 117 N. Mason Street, Fort Collins 09/09/2019 – MINUTES Page 1 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair, Hill, called the meeting to order at 5:31 pm. 2. ROLL CALL BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: CITY STAFF PRESENT Nora Hill, Chair Eric Keselburg, Parking Manager Kayla Utter, Vice Chair Drew Brooks, Director of Transit Adam Eggleston Corina Blas, Admin Support Barbara Wilkins Travis Anderson BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: PUBLIC PRESENT: Bob Criswell Indy Hart OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: 3. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION None 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes approved by Eggleston and second by Hill. 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS Overview of Transit Master Plan- Brooks The Transit Master Plan was adopted in April by City Council. The success of MAX is very evident. Transfort went out and did a lot of community meetings Council Liaison: Ken Summers Chair: Nora Hill Vice Chair: Kayla Utter Staff Liaison: Drew Brooks (970) 221-6386 Administrative Support: Danna Varnell (970) 224-6161 DocuSign Envelope ID: 6000B016-A48C-472C-961A-180B12B2F90C 09/09/2019 – MINUTES Page 2 and everyone was very excited about rapid transit. The focus will be on expansion of the service frequency vs. the service area. There is a grant application for micro-transit that will be submitted next year (2020), that is looking at southeast Fort Collins. Micro-transit is a low-seating capacity van service, carrying a small number of riders at a time from their own location to a transit center or service location. Transfort is currently looking into a variety of models to see how this might work. Mobility hubs are areas where this micro- transit would go but would also have different types of transportation, options such as, bikes, scooters, and/or buses. Mobility As A Service, (MAAS) - How can we connect all of these different types of transportation and make it smoother for the customer. Overall entire plan is looking at how can we build out frequent service where it matters and how can we augment the rest of that. It is a very aggressive plan. The entire build-out cost will be between 270 and 300 million. We think that we can get 75-80% of that from federal grants or other types of things. The bigger issue is how do we fund the operations. Eggleston - There seems to be some interest in looking at putting the BRT down Elizabeth soon. Has there been discussion on doing a budget offer for the upcoming BFO cycle for this? There was a budget offer last cycle, it was not funded. We are at maximum working compacity at our Transit Maintenance Facility. Any expansion that we do with the system we will have to find a different facility. Our estimate is that it will be a 20-million-dollar project. We do not anticipate a problem with this. Eggleston - Can we partner with the school district temporarily? It is a possibility. We have also begun preliminary discussions with the County about some locations. We see that this can double as a public-facing facility, such as a mobility hub and having buses stored and charged there. Going forward we will only be buying electric buses. Hill - If you were going to buy a bus how long would that take? 18 months to 2 years. We are doing another demo with a manufacturer the first week of October. One of the struggles with buying electric buses is that some of the biggest manufacturers are not in the United States. Even if we found the funding tomorrow there are other delays. Wilkins - Can we provide a service to do what school buses do? We are prohibited by federal law to provide school service if we accept federal dollars for operations. DocuSign Envelope ID: 6000B016-A48C-472C-961A-180B12B2F90C 09/09/2019 – MINUTES Page 3 Eggleston - Is there any cutting-edge parking technology companies that you could pilot for? A couple of things that we are looking at is around carpooling and parking. We just saw a presentation from one of our vendors where they have an app that 4 or 5 people can find each other to carpool to the same location or around the same location. The future looks like a lot of different innovative things. The Transit Master Plan is a companion document to City Plan. This is our best prediction of where we think that land usage could go. Both plans build out 20 to 40 thousand people. Our goal is to get down to 10-15 min service everywhere. The plan is to fully build out by 2040. 6. NEW BUSINESS a. Enforcement extended hours update – Keselburg • Parking Services has concluded the official pilot In the 6 weeks, we did not change behavior so it looks like it will take a lot longer. We also had to operate in such a small window due to CSU schedule. • Were looking at couple different days to occasionally pull data consistently. • Having conversations about data sharing so that we don’t run out of our own. • Changing the regulatory ‘parking’ signs in the downtown area would be a fairly large project. We want to ensure proper due diligence is conducted prior to changing downtown signs. • A majority of the overtime citations issued on Saturdays were not repeat offenders. • Additional wayfinding/information sharing ideas are being considered. b. Eileen McCluskey resigned from the Parking Advisory Board effective immediately. The Boards and Commissions will be reviewing new board applicants. c. Economist Article – Utter All in favor for Indie Hart to participate, please say Yea or Nay. A DocuSign Envelope ID: 6000B016-A48C-472C-961A-180B12B2F90C 09/09/2019 – MINUTES Page 4 unanimous Yea decision was made. Utter - What comes first? We have parking minimums that create expensive parking structures. Parking minimums comes first. Utter - How do you incentivize people to make a choice to not drive? By making driving the hardest way to travel whether it be paying for parking or paying for gas. Wilkins - They put the minimum standard because they were being flooded with complaints. Utter - The day will never come that parking garages will not be used if the space is there people will utilize the space. You can’t just take it away because people don’t use it. • How can parking help determine the success or failure of alternative modes of transportation like bikes, buses, and trains? Hill - One way to not parking requirements as much or at least be ready to ramp them down. Let the builders provide what the market demands. Utter - Not focused on taking away from parking but repurposing some parking. Moving forward we have an opportunity to choose if we should have parking or not and we should move toward or not. • Consider the paragraph on page 4: "Water companies are not obliged to supply all the water that people would use if it were free, nor are power companies expected to provide all the free electricity that customers want. But many cities try to provide enough spaces to meet the demand for free parking, even at peak times." Do you think cities should try to meet peak parking demand? Why or why not? Is parking like a utility, or is it not? Eggleston - The difference from the two is the direct economic benefits and negative impacts if you don’t have parking. Utter – We, as a city, try hard to provide free parking. Wilkins - There are other things that come into parking like sales tax, luxury tax and how someone is paying. In other words there are other ways that parking gets paid for. Hart - If you want parking that you paid for, are you opposed to have parking paid for by people who don’t use it as much as you. So, I don’t use as much electricity as you let’s just say should we be paying the same electricity bill if you are using more of the electricity DocuSign Envelope ID: 6000B016-A48C-472C-961A-180B12B2F90C 09/09/2019 – MINUTES Page 5 or should we each be billed for our own electricity usage? If you like that model, then parking would be like the utility model where you pay for your own usage. Utter- Safety of streets. The more frequently the streets are in use the safer it will be. Wonder if there is less access to parking more people walk that create a safer environment. 7. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS NONE 8. OTHER BUSINESS NONE 9. ADJOURNMENT a. The meeting was moved to be adjourned by Hill and second by Eggleston at 7:25 pm. 09/09/19 MINUTES WERE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED ______________________________________________ Approved by and Title ______________________________________________ Signature and Date Signed DocuSign Envelope ID: 6000B016-A48C-472C-961A-180B12B2F90C Eleanor Hill Chair