HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 05/27/2025 - Memorandum from Sylvia Tatman – Burruss and Denzel Maxwell re Work Session Summary – May 13, 2025, Civic Center Masterplan & Parking Garage
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Date: May 22, 2025
To: Mayor and City Council
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Tyler Marr, Deputy City Manager
From: Sylvia Tatman-Burruss, Project Manager
Denzel Maxwell, Assistant City Manager
RE: Work Session Summary – May 13, 2025, Civic Center Masterplan & Parking Garage
BOTTOM LINE
The purpose of this memo is to document the summary of discussions during the May 13 Work
Session.
All Councilmembers were present. Staff received questions and feedback regarding a potential
future parking garage as a portion of the Civic Center Master Plan. The staff presentation was
provided by Denzel Maxwell and Sylvia Tatman-Burruss.
DISCUSSION SUMMARY
Staff provided a history of the Civic Center Master Plan, reviewed the adopted Goals and
Guidelines, reviewed components of the Municipal Court expansion, and introduced a proposal
for a potential future parking garage.
Summary of Feedback
Discussion included:
• A desire to move thoughtfully and deliberately to understand the ecosystem of parking
and parking demand within the entire downtown area.
o This includes an analysis of the upcoming parking study and how the proposed
garage would fulfill needs within the area in addition to future projected employee
parking demand.
• A desire to better understand how the financing of the garage will be structured and how
that will impact other priorities.
• A better understanding of fleet vehicle storage within the garage and which of those
vehicles can be stored at off-site facilities and which of them are critical for daily use
within the vicinity.
• A request for space planning updated from the 2021 plan for on-site, hybrid, and remote
workers and what is projected for the future.
Docusign Envelope ID: 99FBDBB4-837E-4935-8BD8-804F73443010
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Follow-up Items
Several points of follow-up from questions asked during the work session are outlined below:
• Funding for the design of the parking garage has been appropriated by Council through
BFO Offer 93.1 (2019) for $1.5 Million.
• The Downtown Park Shop move and stabilization of the Trolley Barn are part of the
proposed Community Capital Improvement Program (CCIP) package.
• The cost to build the Firehouse Alley garage in 2017 was $8.4 million, about $28,000 per
parking stall (that is about $11 million dollars today, or $37,000 per parking stall).
Next Steps
• Continue to refine how the parking garage fits into the broader Civic Center vision.
• Continue to explore structure and timing of financing in the broader vision of the Civic
Center.
• Collaborate with other City departments to determine most efficient process for fleet
vehicle storage and availability for daily-use staff.
• Continue to refine space planning for current and future employees based on updated
on-site, hybrid, and remote work assumptions.
Docusign Envelope ID: 99FBDBB4-837E-4935-8BD8-804F73443010