HomeMy WebLinkAboutParking Advisory Board - Minutes - 09/09/2019PARKING ADVISORY BOARD
REGULAR
Monday, September 9, 2019 5:30 PM
117 N. Mason Street, Fort Collins
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Approved by and Title
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Signature and Date Signed
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Eleanor Hill Chair