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MEMORANDUM
DATE: October 14, 2020
TO: Mayor Troxell and Councilmembers
THRU: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Kelly DiMartino, Deputy City Manager
Caryn Champine, Director – Planning, Development & Transportation
Dean Klingner, Deputy Director – Planning, Development & Transportation
FROM: Drew Brooks, Director – Transfort & Parking Services
SUBJECT: Update – Curbside Pickup & Outdoor Dining Related to Parking
At the October 6th, 2020 City Council Meeting there was a request for additional
information regarding the ongoing status of parking capacity related to curbside pickup
and outdoor dining locations currently occupying parking spaces in the downtown area.
Bottomline
Curbside pickup locations have been continuously analyzed and reevaluated since their
inception May 11th, 2020. Curbside pickup locations may be a greater need for
businesses in the winter when outdoor dining may be more difficult due to inclement
weather. It is expected that some curbside pickup locations will remain indefinitely,
though the final number has yet to be determined. Outdoor dining locations have been
extended and will continue while the emergency order is in place.
Parking capacity on street and in parking structures is monitored continuously with
parking space capacity frequently evaluated to balance the demands of high turnover
customers, employees, residents and longer-term visitors. Currently there is ample
capacity both on street and in parking structures.
Background
Due to the State declared emergency stay-at-home order issued March 2020,
downtown retail and restaurant businesses were not allowed to serve patrons inside
their place of business. To support local business recovery efforts, Parking Services
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partnered with the Downtown Developm ent Authority (DDA) to designate parking
spaces as curbside pickup locations. The signage for these specific spaces were
treated as a right-of-way encroachment, to allow for the “Business as Unusual” graphics
used by the DDA, rather than regulatory traffic signs/devices. See exhibit A.
Beginning May 11th, Parking staff signed 100 Curbside Pickup spaces around the
downtown area, based on identified locations and conversations with vested partners.
As the stay-at-home order progressed, dedicated parking spaces were moved, added,
and/or removed to support evolving local business needs.
Beginning May 29th, the City began installing outdoor dining locations, with several
public parking stalls being converted, to support the minimum footprint requirements for
restaurant patron distancing. As traffic safety barricades were put in place within public
parking stalls for outdoor dining use, many of the prior curbside pickup spaces were
removed from these locations.
With the State transition to the safer-at-home order, retailers and restaurants began
allowing patrons inside their place of business. This transition supported additional
rightsizing of curbside pickup locations, with conversations and support of those
affected businesses.
On September 18th, Parking staff partnered with the DDA to remove 20 Curbside Pickup
signs from the downtown area. This removal, along with the ongoing requested changes
of locations and quantity of dedicated spaces between May to September, resulted in
61 Curbside Pickup locations currently designated in the downtown area.
Additional public outreach, and DDA conversations, are taking place to identify
appropriate number and locations to support updating current signage to indicate a
designated short-term/curbside space, which would allow regulation per Traffic Code.
Modification to current Traffic Code will support intended short-term and frequent use of
these designated locations. Current signage only encourages compliance and does not
allow Parking staff to hold users accountable for their duration of stay. See exhibit B.
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Exhibit A
Exhibit B
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