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Requesting that the Planning Commission initiate a stakeholder and public review of the Central Corridor parking policy recommendations
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WHEREAS, in the fall of 2008 the Saint Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development and the Central Corridor Project Office of the Metropolitan Council established a staff team called the Parking Solutions Team to recommend strategies for mitigating the projected loss of 85% of the parking on University Avenue due to light rail development; and
WHEREAS, in April, 2009 the Parking Solutions Team released a report titled Mitigating the Loss of Parking in the Central Corridor, with site-specific and corridor-wide strategies for improving off-street parking resources and comprehensively managing on-street parking resources; and
WHEREAS, on October 7, 2009, by Resolution No. 09-1071, the City Council established the Staff Group on Central Corridor Parking Policy to address the comprehensive strategies for managing on-street parking resources, most of which involve policy decisions the City Council will have to make; and
WHEREAS, the Staff Group on Central Corridor Parking Policy has completed the attached report titled Central Corridor Parking Policy Recommendations with recommended policies the City Council should consider in implementing comprehensive parking management solutions in the Central Corridor; and
WHEREAS, these parking management policies will affect all parking stakeholders in the Central Corridor, including business and property owners, employees, customers, and residents on and around University Avenue:
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that the City Council accepts that the issues brought forward by the Central Corridor Parking Policy Recommendations warrant further discussion, and requests the Planning Commission to solicit stakeholder and public comments on the policy implications and report back to the City Council in early 2011 so that comprehensive parking management policies may be ...
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