Counselor Adams.

Here.

Counselor Conklin.

Mayor Fitzpatrick.

So Mr.

S.

Yes.

So based on feedback and the conversations we had at the council level about what elements of a parking master plan that we can take on ourselves.

We have a quick presentation that we would like to talk about the principal parts of what needed to be or should be looked at, and then have a discussion with the council about how much do you want to explore an aspect of it, but what we're also recommending that does need to be changed.

Brian Quigley, the assistant to the city manager, has actually taken a leadership and a lead on this role even since uh December.

And so Ryan's gonna walk you through about a seven-page slide set and then kind of go through the questions that you may have after that.

Hi everyone.

Um so yeah, like like uh Scott said, this will be just a this presentation or PowerPoint will be an overview regarding our current code regarding the historio downtown parking district, and then touch on the enforcement piece of it, which uh that will rope in Chief Kelly so if he can provide his expertise on that.

So um so just high level overview.

So, like I said, for this presentation, we're gonna go over the downtown parking district code language.

Um, in particular, there's three points we're gonna we're gonna want to hide, we want to highlight for you all as opportunities to improve this portion of our code.

Um traditional context within our city code, that's this is section 6.350 to 6.37 zero.

Um, after that, we're gonna open up the conversation to you all regarding the uh story downtown parking district map boundary.

That was something I was brought up for discussion um in the past at our uh council retreat.

And then, like I said, we'll bring in uh Chief Kelly for the enforcement practices and next steps.

So regarding our story of downtown parking district, uh, it was originally established in 1988.

Um the the map, the one you see before you, the last update of that to that was in 2004.

Um, for a context for the amount of parking spaces we're talking about, there's about approximately 1300 of them, about 559 of them have a time limit with 809 of them having no time limit of that area.

That's those are numbers we got from our 2019 parking study.

So, like I said, we're gonna I just want to highlight three sections of the code that we feel um are in need of an update.

Uh the first part of that is in section 6.355.

And uh for that, that's we're really looking at updating our definitions and uh clearing up some of the language regarding parking district versus parking area.

So staff's recommendation is just an overall update to definitions and languages.

Some of some of some of the definitions are can are dated or could just be made more concise, more readable, stuff like that.

Um, and then in particular, we wanted to highlight the removal of the term or definition parking area from our code language.

So um what the two images you see there, the one on the left is our downtown parking district.

The one on the right is what our um parking district describes as the parking area.

And for your reference, that's supposed to go um on the right or on it will be exchange street, um, going all the way over to 8th Street on the south.

It was it, that is sorry, exchange street on the south, 8th Street um on the left, and then on the north, that is the Columbia River.

That is when it talks about our parking area related to our parking district.

That is that is what it's talking about.

Um staff is recommending we just remove that language from this portion of the code.

We feel that it would streamline the process, streamline this language that allows for um clear context understanding for anyone reading it, easier enforcement, and then just better alignment with general modern practice or modern parking management practices for cities of our size, as well as talking about downtown areas, they normally just either have a single definition when talking about a parking parking space.

So the next uh recommendation for from staff is updating prohibited parking and exemptions language.

Um, that's section 6.360 of our code.

Um, so there are currently some inconsistencies between parking signage that you can see out there and our city code.

Um Frankly put, the this I took this picture today.

Our signage says that it's two hour parking from 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

except on Sundays and holidays.

Well, our code actually says from 10 a.m.

to 430 p.m.

You know, there are some inconsistencies that need to be um realigned to so that we are you know practicing what we're preaching within our code.

Um we also are looking at wanting to update language around the permitting to meet current practices and processes.

There's we cite within our code um resolutions that are no longer relevant to our current practices.

Um an example of that is a lot of the resolution site like bagging um bagging meters.

You know, that was back when you know you were paying for parking on meters and stuff like that.

You know, we we don't do that anymore.

Those those things need to be fixed.

And that's part of fixing that, um replacing those resolutions and adding language to create a more administrative permit program.

That would be that would still fulfill the spirit of what those resolutions were we're trying to do, which is like permitting for temporary construction or something along those lines.

Um pros for that it creates clear understanding for residents and visitors, reduces reliance on outdated exemption language, provides once again clear standards, and uh just helps permit our long-term parking management goals.

And the third um high high-level uh update we're recommending is just replace section 6.365 with modern information gathering practices in its entirety.

Uh, this part of our code um is fairly out of date in terms of what our current practices are in terms of gathering information from helsels, businesses, and houses in the downtown area, and really needs to be realigned and updated so that we are in better alignment with current privacy expectations.

Um it will help reduce risk of constitutional or civil rig challenges for collection of data from the city, um, reduce staff workload as well as avoid unnecessary data collection.