Or whoever's running the meeting, do we have anybody who's waiting to be permitted to be a panelist that I should wait on for just a moment?

Not currently, Chair.

Okay.

Okay, thank you, Jessica.

All right.

Well then we will go ahead and call the meeting to the to order.

So I I'm calling the May 26th, 2026 Urban Beavers and Urban Redevelopment Agency meeting to order.

Will the recorder please call the role?

Duggar.

Hartmeyer Prig.

Here.

I have down that um Nadia Hassan is going to be absent.

Kimmy?

Teeter?

Here.

Tivnon.

Here.

I have down that uh Mayor Baby is going to be absent.

Corinne Hanning.

Here.

Jennifer.

Oh, she's here.

It just the audio didn't come through.

Jennifer, you want to try again?

Okay.

Yeah, it's just really quiet.

Oh, okay.

I'll try to sit close.

That's better.

Thanks.

Walton.

Lair.

John.

Sure.

And we do have board member Duggar.

Duggar just join.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you, everybody.

The first item on tonight's agenda is visit visitor comments.

Visitor comments allow visitors to speak to the Bureau Board about matters that are not included on tonight's agenda.

City recorder, do we have anyone here to address the Bureau Board?

There is no one in person or online.

Okay, thank you.

We'll move forward to board communications.

Do any board members have any information that they would like to share with the rest of the board tonight?

Okay.

We'll go forward then too.

The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda.

There are three sets of minutes for our consideration tonight.

February 24th, March 17th, and April 28th, 2026.

Do I have a motion for the consent agenda?

I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second.

Thank you.

Got a motion, a second, any discussion.

Okay, I hear none.

Uh reporter, can you take the roll?

Doug here.

Duggar?

Yes.

Yes.

Kimmy.

Yes.

Teeter.

Yes.

Tivnon?

Yes.

Hanning.

Yes.

Nye.

Yes.

Lear.

Yes.

Eight, yes.

Thank you.

Um do we have three absent?

Is that right?

Okay.

I think so.

We'll go to the side.

Yes, three.

Two excused and one absent at this point.

Okay.

Thanks all right.

So we have one item for discussion tonight.

It's Bureauville 2026-014.

The downtown parking plan work session.

Uh so Mar Molly and team, anybody else presenting?

Uh feel free to start whenever you are ready.

Helps to turn on my audio.

Um thank you for having us here tonight.

Um we are going to present uh the draft strategies of the downtown parking plan.

I suppose we're sharing my screen, sorry, or is this coming from the council laptop?

I have it pulled up, so I can share if you need me to.

If you wouldn't mind, that would be great.

Wonderful.

If you could go to the next slide, please.

So as I go through a lot of information, and uh I would really appreciate if you could kind of think about two things as we go through and I'll bring these back at the end.

Um so what strategies or related actions have you heard about and do these strategies match up?

Um, needs that you've heard about in downtown.

Um if not, what are we missing in this plan?

And of these strategies, do you have a top priority?

And at the end, I will talk a little bit about what we've heard from the community in regards to top priorities.

Um, and just so you know, the next step on this is that there will be a presentation to council and a resolution for adoption considering consideration on June 16th.

Next slide, please.

So the downtown parking plan looks at data that we've been collecting, uh, talk uh looks at community engagement that we've done over a number of years, um some financial feasibility of the different strategies, as well as some cost recovery options, um, integration with other downtown initiatives.

There are we've got a lot of plans going on, a lot of work going on.

Um, and it's a flexible implementation timeline to really try to find those strategies that fit best into the current needs or into the future needs, and how do we align those strategies?

So it's not your necessarily traditional timeline of you do this in year one, you do this in year three, and you do this in year five, and everything's fixed.

Parking doesn't work that way, so we have to be a little bit flexible.

Go to the next slide, please.

So this is the plan area when we're talking about downtown.

So in the parking world, we look at it in three separate sections in a way.

Um, so Beaverton Central, um, Broadway is its own, the Broadway district is kind of its own entity because of its confined geographic location, and then old town.

Next slide.

So the first strategy, there are a total of nine strategies.

Um, the first strategy is looking at permanent downtown compliance effort to try to make sure that we are supporting a number of other strategies as well as working towards the regulations and consistency that we need for businesses and for residents and turnover utilization, all of those things.

Um there was a contract approved on May 5th.

We are in the process of getting that finalized and signed, which we anticipate to be early June of 2026.

Um, it's a 45 to 60 day ramp up, and we continue to collect data and implement lessons learned from our pilot program that was similar to this.

And we will do community engagement walk arounds as we ramp up, but we will also be looking at operationally what we need.

So we have heard from the community that we want to look at sort of operations that best support the highest demand in downtown.

And so we will be working with Laz, who is the contractor that was selected for this contract on what enforcement and compliance efforts look like operationally, um, whether it's a combination of vehicle and walk arounds, um, including like walking around while collecting data, as well as the hours of operation that we're looking at, how that ties into a future strategy that I'll talk about in a minute.

Um in regards to what our time zones are, what our time regulations are, what time of day those are happening, what days of the week those are happening.

So it kind of all nothing is mutually exclusive here.

Uh next slide, please.

Strategy two, another one that we've heard a lot about is creating a parking brand.

So a parking brand can look like a marketing strategy, signage, directional signage, informational signage, um, anything that kind of helps the public identify where the parking is, what the parking is, um, and sort of who it belongs to in the sense, like we would really like to make public parking very recognizable, uh both off-street and on-street.

So, whether it's thinking about parking kitty downtown as a as a parking uh brand, or just having a very recognizable sign that that lets folks know that this is public parking, and I can use this parking.

And so we are working with our fellow departments on what that can look like because there are some sort of standards that have to be met that are um like national standards.

So we're uh coordinating with those folks to figure out what that could look like.

Next slide, please.

Um, implement paid parking.

Um paid parking is one of those things that immediately people kind of go to meters on the street, but paid parking can actually look like a number of different things.

It's it helps encourage turnover in your highest demand areas, um, kind of makes people choose what option, what parking option fits their needs the best.

So paid parking in a parking garage, paid parking in we have some private lots that have established their own paid parking, and how do we kind of manage that to make sure that it's meeting the needs of the community?

Thinking business license and terms and conditions type of operations.

And then also on street traditional paid parking is always a management strategy that can be evaluated.

It does require investment and infrastructure to begin with, but it can also have a capital return.

I've lumped strategies four and five together because they are very related.

Right now, we have one permit programtown and it's on selected streets, primarily an old town and a little bit in the Beaverton Central area.

Strategies four and five are actually to separate these two programs into a residential permit program and an employee permit program because what we've learned through our pilot efforts and through our community engagement is that we don't we can't meet both of their needs with one program, and we really need to kind of look more individually at what would meet our current residents and our current businesses the best.

So we have started working on little things that can help build a baseline for both programs, such as changing some code.

There will be more code changes along the way, looking at price adjustments, looking at we've we've established digital permits so people no longer have to have a hang tag and come in to get a hang tag.

But there's a lot of options out there considering how much downtown has developed since 2002.

So looking at the locations, are they meeting the needs?

Um how many units do we have for residential?

Um do we put a cap on the number of vehicles per household, things along those lines, while employees maybe the better options for them are in some of the off-street locations or coordination with businesses that have different hours so that maybe an employee of one could park at the of at a different establishment so that the employees are no longer on the street, and then the customers can use the street parking.

So this is kind of what residential employee permits look like.

But technically, strategy four is residential permits, and strategy five isn't state permits.

Strategy six is a big one.

Um improve curb space management can mean a lot of different things.

So looking at time regulations, looking at how we're meeting the multiple modes of transportation, so micro-mobility, transit, parking, loading and unloading, all of those things uh use curb space, um, working with our TSP, our transportation system to kind of coordinate what they're working on and what how parking fits into all of that.

Uh and that can look like new ADA spaces, which we've put in two, and we have two more coming along the way, um, looking at our time limits.

Do we establish zones with time limits?

Um, removing the tick marks, that's something that we've heard was a priority.

So we are actually in the process of removing those.

Um we have uh some traffic commission sessions planned to talk more about new regulations on the street.

We're looking at new ways of doing loading and unloading, pick up and drop off are huge since COVID.

Um, so how do we kind of find those priority spaces as well as as we keep kind of our open air and the commons and things that use the curb space for something new and different?

How do we accommodate those that maybe are mobility limited and need to be in closer to those areas if they can't park right in front of that business?

Um then we've heard a lot about uh sidewalks and lighting from the community.

Um we have done a number of lighting installs on between Third and Washington and the parking lot there and all of the restaurants closer to First and Farmington and Watson as well as in various places on the west side of Watson Avenue.

Strategy seven is really looking at how we can work together with the public and and and the private as partners to try to optimize our off-street parking assets.

So this is looking at the existing supply that we have in downtown, about half of which is privately owned and half of which is publicly owned.

So how can we try to better use our underutilized lots?

We are in the process of making the third and Washington lot or the farmers market lot or the West Library lot, you can call it whatever suits your your need the best.

But making it a pub parking lot.

So not just for library needs, library can absolutely still use it.

But how can we make that available to the public and really advertise it as such?

And then shared parking, sorry, shared parking is another opportunity.

So how do we?

Next slide.

Strategy eight is kind of the opposite of that in a way.

And I've put this in here as a future strategy.

It's not something that we're actively working on right now, but it is what happens if we need additional supply, and how would we go about doing that?

And so that would be we've optimized all of our existing parking, and whether that's a building comes in and they are developing a whole area and they want to build a parking garage.

How do we ensure that that is something that maybe can be used on a district level instead of just on a one-land use level?

Or if we have a residential building coming in that has retail on the ground floor and they want to attach parking, how could we kind of work with them to make some of that parking available to the retail to take some of that demand off?

But at the moment, there's not an active project or program that we're working on for this strategy.

And then the last strategy, sorry, I've been talking really fast and provided a lot of information.

I'm happy to answer questions at the end of this.

Um strategy nine is uh managing temporary use of the curb.

So with the um CFEC rules about no longer requiring a minimum amount of parking for a new development.

How do we manage how construction happens in those areas, how laydown happens, we've got zero lot line development happening.

Um we get a lot of requests for move like moving in and out of our multifamily unit.

So whether it's a pod or a moving truck, um, and how do we kind of guarantee that uh that construction as it's happening, the subs and the contractors don't come in and take up sort of the prime parking right there.

We've got a lot of um projects happening right now.

We've got the loop coming up, we've got the metal arc coming in, we've got Milliken, um, just to name a few.

And so, how do we work together with our contractors with the permit systems that we have in place, the digital permit systems, things along those lines, to establish a more streamlined coordination to better use the curb space.

It's another curb management technique, and also thinking about how what our processes for doing that.

Right now, it's not a clear process for folks, so it can create some confusion.

We also don't require a parking plan for our construction through the building process.

We require a traffic plan so that we know how vehicles are getting in and out of a construction site, but we don't have a parking plan.

Um, and therefore that can also create some chaos on occasion when a big group of subs comes in and there's no clear guideline for where they should go.

So we've done next slide, please.

We've done a fair amount of community engagement.

Um, this project really, or this this plan really started in 2021 and has had some ups and downs.

Um, I'm the first to admit it's taken a long time.

And it's uh we did a lot of engagement.

Uh we did surveys and walkarounds, um, and then we've come back with this new revised plan and these new ideas that we've heard from the community.

Um so we've been presenting this plan since March to various community groups, boards and commissions.

We held two open houses last week.

Um we'll continue to work with the community on each of these strategies as they move forward.

Um, each of these kind of creates their own project or programs and would go through its own process and community engagement process as part of that implementation.

Next slide, please.

So what we've heard from the community so far is general support for the downtown parking plan, which is great.

I love hearing that.

Um, and we've had the top priorities sort of identified, and I know it kind of looks like everything's been a priority, um, but this is sort of the order in which we've heard it.

So curb management was really key.

So time regulations, time limits, time zones, loading and unloading things along those lines.

Um, parking branding and really knowing where to go and how to get there is the second highest that we've heard.

Um folks really like the idea of making the third and Washington parking lot more obvious and more um noticeable as public parking.

And then um to continue time enforcement because it supports these other strategies.

It's one tool in a parking toolbox, um, but it is sort of an underlying support to many of these other strategies that wouldn't be successful without that underlying piece, and then definitely um a lot of interest in different permit options, more permit options.

Um so then I'm going to take you back to my questions that I asked.

Um, and I've just thrown a lot of information at everyone.

So thank you for putting up with my fast talking.

Um, and I'm happy to go back, answer any questions, and uh I would appreciate your feedback.

Thank you, Molly.

Uh so board members put your names in the chat or work through the list.

Um S I see names.

Um first.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you, Molly.

Um, so I think of the strategies, which I love that there's just a lot that can be done, and that there's lots of, you know, will take time for us to kind of implement all those things.

But I would say that I think what my priorities are.

Um I'm eager to have our uh enforcement times adjusted to kind of match the peak need and the you know where enforcement is most important, I guess.

Um, some of the comment that we'd heard from constituents is that you know, there's certain places kind of late morning, midday that their customers like to stay longer and parking isn't really as high demand.

So, you know, I think really getting the um enforcement times to match when it's really needed is something that is priority to me.

Um also getting the residential permit fees to an amount that is like meeting like at least like that medium residential rate, because we know that our permit is a bargain.

Um, but now that there are more residences that have parking permits, you know, like I think we need to kind of get our our rate to be in line with those to make sure that folks are not just scooping up all of our lower price permits.

Um, and I really like the employee shared parking idea.

Um, I think that's really smart, especially because I think in the past, maybe some of the feedback we've heard is you know, people didn't want to do their lots because of the wear and tear and the cost to them, but in that type of model, like you've got you know, got like some shared maybe interest and responsibility.

So I think that's a really interesting idea.

Um, and leaves then you know the more prime parking up for customers.

Uh I think we absolutely need to get that flex parking zone figured out for pickups and deliveries.

I think you know, especially around First Street, um, there's just a lot of double parking that goes on, or someone will park along somebody's, you know, curb.

Um I'm totally spacing what they're called, the parklet, you know, structures.

Um so I think us adjust like figuring that out is gonna just lead to a much more safe area too, right?

If we can kind of get the curb side stuff figured out, but the with the priority for accessible spots, I think is very, very smart.

Um then I have some questions for you.

So those are my priorities.

I don't think I listed them all.

I think I gave you a subset.

That's great.

Okay.

Um, okay, question around um one of the priorities is also, or one of the kind of like pillars, right, was around financial sustainability, which I think is really important.

Has the parking team done any sort of kind of projection or like a schedule of like at a point when we think that the parking program might break even?

Because I know like there was a mention of like, hey, one day there might actually be some program revenue from this.

Do we have or you know, do we have any sort of estimate of when that is?

I I mean I assume it'll come based on which priorities that get implemented when, but I'm curious if you've got uh an idea.

So there are there are a few ways of looking at it, and and so I haven't I can't say we've done a projection of like when will the parking program as a whole break even.

Um the garage is close, just as an example.

So the garage is close, some of the programs and and permits and stuff that we've implemented.

Um we kind of always estimated that was going to be a three to five year.

We're in the middle of year four, and we're kind of right getting getting near there.

Um there are other options that some of which are things that will require policy changes and councils input on such as residential permit fees or any kind of permit fees, um such as the implementation of paid parking, those things are absolutely things that can break even once the investment's been made.

Um, but it it is a policy decision that we don't currently have in place.

Right.

We have put in um I mentioned with the permits that we've done some preliminary changes to the code that would allow us to sort of start a new baseline, and that did include removing some of the stricter language around what a permit could cost.

Um, so that we can move forward with with looking at that.

But we have, I mean, we have looked at what returns could look like if certain policy decisions are made.

Okay, awesome.

Thanks, Molly.

Sure.

Um, okay.

My other question is kind of like so you know the parking map, like the enforcement zone is not super huge right now, right?

And so I was also kind of thinking about this feedback about you know, certain times of the day staying longer than two hours kind of makes more sense, right?

Or whatever.

But I was curious, um, have we also thought about having longer parking zones or like a variety of parking times.

So, yes.

Um the more we have, the more confusing it gets.

Yeah.

So that's that's one consideration as we look at our parking regulations.

We have a lot of data.

We have over three million points of data from the pilot that kind of gives us an idea of approximately how long folks are staying.

Um our two-hour zones that we have right now are primarily the Broadway district, the first two northern blocks of Old Town, and most of Beaverton Central.

And so we actually have a fair amount of untimed parking.

Everything south of third is untimed.

And so we can see how long folks are staying in those spaces versus how long folks are staying in the two-hour spaces.

Um, we can also see like who's a repeat uh, or if they have a permit, and the permit would allow them to stay in a two-hour space longer.

So on average, our length of stay is still only about two hours in those unregulated spaces between two and two to two and a half hours looking at peaks and averages and all of that fun stuff.

Um in the two-hour zones, the length average length of stay is about an hour and a half.

So we are seeing, and and then when we looked at Broadway when it had a one-hour time zone, um, we were still seeing people stay about an hour and a half.

So that was telling to us that that two hours that we changed Broadway to back um in gosh, is it almost been a year now?

Um when we changed Broadway, we made it two hours because we were saying seeing that hour and a half as that sort of average length of stay with respect to the fact that we had businesses that really needed those short-term spaces.

Um so we actually added three 30-minute spots in addition to making the 15-minute spots, 30 minute spots because they're more enforceable that way.

So we actually added those to help with the delivery and pickup to help with those quick turnover businesses.

Um, but also made it a lot less confusing for our users by making the rest of it two others.

Okay, awesome.

Okay, sorry, sorry, teammates.

I have I think two more questions for Molly.

For if you are uh if you were using a disabled spot, you don't have time requirement or restrictions, correct?

Correct.

Beautiful.

Okay.

And then my last question then would be like I like I'm really grateful for all of the um responsiveness to the kind of feedback for the wayfinding and the lighting and changing over the to you know the library lot to a public lot.

Um I think that maybe part of the storytelling, I guess my thinking is then that hey, this is the enforcement zone.

So if you are able to park at the lot or at outside of the zone, you can stay longer, right?

Kind of letting people know that if you are someone who was able to walk an extra block or whatever, right, that you do have a much more flexible time, but then also making sure that there are folks who do need a closer spot and hopefully have access to a disabled parking permit, like that they can get that kind of up close spot.

Okay, those are all thank you.

Board member Decker.

Cool.

Thanks, Molly, for the presentation information.

Uh super helpful saying the big plan.

The uh I still have concerns about the cost and sort of the piecemeal approach um about everything, but but I just I I go back to not knowing what our total resources are and like how we invest in all these things, but um you know, we spent a lot on enforcement already.

But uh I'll start with my priorities.

Um Councilor Hartmore asked a couple of my questions, so uh I think that was helpful.

I think as far as my priorities, um uh, and I don't know if this goes under parking branding, um, which it seems like it might, but you'll know better than me, Molly.

But just smart parking investments.

Um, if you've ever been to Bend, uh, I think most of us probably have at Wall Street in Greenwood.

I had to look up that there's a giant board, right?

That tells you all the parking lots in downtown and it tells you how many spots are available.

So imagine like going to the airport too, and you're seeing those little green lights, right, that show you in the garage.

Um, it just makes it really easy.

I I uh I don't often drive downtown because I live in downtown, but um I do see people and I talk to people and they circle a lot.

And I see uh as a pedestrian, I see cars circling a lot.

So like it's really important for me to help uh them not circle, right?

Like that's that adds to frustration.

So if there's any smart parking investments, I I I'm not wed to that, like like parking board or whatever that bind has, but just like like some smart parking investments, uh I think would be um to help people navigate beyond just a sign, uh, you know, like when I when I think a lot of the signs that we have uh for wayfinding are more for pedestrians, like you can't get out of your car and rush over to the sidewalk and see a sign.

It'd have to be a pretty big sign, um, which I'm totally open to things like that.

But but I just think smart parking might be a good idea.

Um I like the lighting improvements you guys made on I think it's Washington.

There are a couple uh few.

Uh I kind of want to double down on that.

Like I think there's more that needs to be done there.

I would even go as far as saying often that lot is underutilized as a is a resident that lives three blocks away from it.

And I always tell people and they're like, oh yeah, that's a great idea.

But I also think about it during winter, right?

Like maybe there's a maybe there's an area where we because it is kind of far away, you know, it's a few blocks away.

What if we did like covered, like a covered area to get from that lot to the first street dining commons, right?

We could use sales or we could do cheaper ones just to see.

I I think I think about just an overall experience from some of our existing infrastructure, like the third and Washington lot.

Um I think the lighting is a massive help because that makes people feel safe at night.

But you know, in in the winter when it gets dark at 4 p.m., it might be nice to have some covered uh covered walkways too, or something like that, or at least some areas, you know, uh, because I work in downtown Portland myself, and a lot of the buildings have overhangs when it's raining that I can stop under, right?

And it just makes walking so much more pleasant when you're not arriving at your destination covered in water.

Um another priority will be uh, and I think you you mentioned the some of the public-private lots.

If we can um, you know, there's there's banks and things like that that have a ton of parking.

You know, I look at Google Maps and the satellite view, and I see a lot of gray uh areas that if we could figure out what the barrier is, whether it be um a small stipend or paying for liability insurance or something like that.

Uh I I think there was some progress made a few years ago with the BDA, probably Councilor Teeter knows more about that than me.

But I think any of that sort of thing would be super helpful to continue to showing we're listening to the computer listening to the community.

Um I also think about bike parking, right?

Like that's got to be part of this equation.

The only real consistent bike parking I know about is at the farmer's market lot, which is you know, I got a lot more uh a couple three years ago or whenever it was, but there's nothing obvious, you have to know that.

And and occasionally there's like you'll see bike spots in front of businesses that get added as they pull permits and stuff like that.

But it doesn't seem like there's a unified strategy or like an obvious strategy.

Um I don't know if that's part of wayfinding or what, but you know, I I think as we as we densify and we want we get people here beyond cars.

I think uh uh you know, at least starting to think about that uh would be good.

Um couple things I think are really great.

Uh I have noticed.

There's a couple shorter term spots.

Um at a private lot.

I I I love those.

Those have been really helpful to businesses.

Um people can so the DoorDash can pick up their order and get out of there in five minutes or 10 minutes, right?

Instead of taking up a spot um that could be used for longer term.

Um and I love the fact that you guys are already removing the tick marks.

Kudos for that.

We have asked for that.

So I want to I just want to extend my thanks for that.

That's that's a really uh really big help because not everyone drives uh uh suburban, and it seems like our spots are sized for that to the point where my friends that come out from Portland kind of laugh about that when they see it.

Um really one last or really one question that I had that that I don't think Councilor Hartmark Prigg asked.

Um I'm thinking about and pardon my ignorance of the the wording here or the terminology, but I think about last mile um uh or micro mobility, maybe that's a word for it, but but but you know, kind of park once and then move around downtown.

And I think about particularly getting people to park in our existing infrastructure, like our our garage, right?

Are there things we should be thinking about that will make it not like a just a walk, but like maybe there's some mobility, micro mobility or anything like that to get people to park in the Risa garage and visit Old Town or visit you know the first street dining commons because that that that feels like a big ask right now, right?

To get people to do that.

I would do that if I needed to, but like are they if if and I'm not sure that everyone would use like micro mobility or stuff like that or bike shares or or whatever the options are, but like um are there things we should be thinking about there?

I didn't see that in the parking strategy, or is that like part of a different overall strategy?

So micro mobility is definitely one of those, and and that's you know, we all love downtown Beaverton, but Canyon and Farmington are challenging.

Um and and so it's the loop.

I'm really hopeful that the loop and and all of the time and investment and energy that has gone into that um will really help with that.

No matter what your mobility you know choice is, that that stretch that makes it feel difficult to be at the garage and go to old town will be reduced.

Um, you know, with Canyon being a truck route and an ODOT route, is it ever going to feel perfect for everyone?

Probably not.

You know, I would I I would be very hesitant to say that the loop is going to solve the problem.

Um but I do think that the coordination between loop efforts, uh transportation system plan efforts, looking at bike uh bike lanes, which is part of the loop, um, you know, all of those things combined that we should be able to create more opportunity or or a more seamless feeling.

Um I mean, I think that's the goal.

Whether or not we decide that we want to have a group of scooters or bikes available at one location or multiple locations throughout, I think that would be a new policy decision that um isn't out of the realm of possibility that happens in downtown Portland, it happens in other downtowns where folks can kind of pick up a bike along the way and and go you know wherever they they may need to go.

Um the combination of those things haven't been high on the list of of investigation, but absolutely, I mean, I I I want to know what's missing from this plan, and if that coordination is is missing, then that's that's really important.

Yeah, I I guess I don't uh I I agree with you on the loop.

I just don't know.

You know, that might be 2030, right?

Like that might be uh it's gonna be a while certainly before we get uh the entire loop built.

Yeah I I guess I don't I uh I I agree with you on the loop I just don't know you know that might be 2030 right like that might be uh it's gonna be a while certainly before we get uh the entire loop built um but you know if there's I guess I guess my my my not necessarily looking for an answer tonight but like if there are micro mobility things that that from your professional experience would help bridge the gap there uh or might be worth trying I would be from a policy perspective I I'd like to hear people's experience on this board and city council at like potentially trying some things to see if that might open up that infrastructure even more uh you know uh to get people to move around so just I I I I guess that's my point is just I'm open to that uh from a perspective of your professional opinion and the parking staffs you know if there's a pilot or if there's recommendations or things we can try but that's all cool thank you thank you I I'd like to maybe add a little bit to that counselor um um with the new Canyon Road pedestrian improvements there is the pedestrian crossing that's gonna happen at Rose PG with the flashing beacon and um you know I to me that probably the best aspect of that project and going from the central garage straight Rose Beech game crossing over suddenly you're on that other side and you're onto Broadway um you know much quicker.

Yeah it was um I I that that did cross my mind Tyler and I was wondering if the other kind of under under appreciated aspect of this is the gonna be the calms right communications around all of these things hey you know like even if people know those exist in the moment they might not know or they might not think about it and so um the the sort of under you know underwriting all of this is like not only do we need to do great things we need to like make sure people know about them and then remind them over and over so um that was a good point and because I you know I know about that and I had even forgotten about that.

So thank you for that.

That's all I had Council Teter.

Thank you, board member Duggar.

Uh there are a few names that came in there all at the same time so good board member nine next yeah board member Duggar uh had some good things and I just wanted to add on our built to a couple of his items um bike parking is one of those things that I think really lacks in downtown Beaverton and Beaverton Central um both um I think an easy win for Old Town is to put I don't think any bike parking exists at first street dining commons um be pretty cheap to put in some loop racks in the asphalt area and there you go um so that was one idea and then um another thing is regarding wayfinding and um highlighting the public lots the city owns there's the one the library and then there's the small one down in Farmington.

To me one thing is like there's a lot of visual clutter in our world and um there's a lot of signage everywhere.

So maybe consider using the street itself um was um I don't know a big pink stripe or something um guiding people to those lots um from in particular like first street dining commons you know can connect and then creating some sort of visual linkage um you know it's less expensive way than providing a cover pedestrian access way um but it's still giving people that visual reminder um and I think once they use that lot a couple times they're gonna be like this is so close why am I spending my time driving around looking for parking um so that was just my two comments I think I agree with the priorities and where they are I look forward to seeing enforcement again and parking so thank you.

Thank you.

Let me pull up the PowerPoint again.

Okay so I think your questions at the end let me just scroll down um all the strategies look great.

I would love to see even if it's just a draft um graphical timeline of how these things sort of stacked or where they overlap at all it might be a little too soon for that but I I think that's also a a tool that would be really useful when communicating to the public around this I think we're gonna only gonna have more scrutiny on um the area that we're really focused on tonight when the Meadowlark project construction really gets going oh we're gonna hear an earful um but I'm I'm so excited at um the feedback that you were getting just continuing to get eyes on this from people that are interested in parking that attended the um event at the library and all the other outreach you've been doing thank you so much for going out and doing all of that it's a lot of work um and I I think that I'm kind of in line with a kind of the staggers and priority that you were hearing back from the community of the curb maintenance and figuring out the timing and and dialing that in adjusting it both listening to what um folks that are parking the cars are saying but also what the businesses are saying.

Thank you so much for going out and doing all of that.

It's a lot of work.

Um and I I think that I'm kind of in line with the kind of the staggers and priority that you were hearing back from the community of the curb maintenance and figuring out the timing and dialing that and adjusting it, both listening to what folks that are parking the cars are saying, but also what the businesses are saying.

Um so that makes sense.

The branding and wayfinding and and just drawing more and more attention as possible to that one lot is on Third and Washington is definitely um I think the lowest hanging fruit here in terms of just opening up access and possibility for people.

And I also I think I mentioned this once before, in addition to the permanent signage, um when we are in a peak season or peak time of the week or whatever it might be, having some A-frames that go out right at those pivot points where we just see cars start circling and circling.

And it's typically I I've seen cars go down, like they pass Sizzle Pie, they make a right back on Watson, they turn by the funeral home, they make the right again, they go past that amazingly gorgeous mural, they make a right by sizzle pie, and they just keep doing it over and over again.

It seems like if we could capture their attention to just go right over there.

Um maybe we could do that with some temporary signage that can move around too.

I love the idea of partnering with businesses to free up um or at least just get permission to use the the surface lots when they are not open.

That seems like there's a lot of um you know to gain from it and not a lot to lose on their side.

I'm I'm still kind of confused about why that seems to be so tough.

Maybe it's a liability thing, maybe it's a turf thing.

Um, but whatever we end up doing there, I think that it's like let's just find out that it unless they're straying us along.

It seems like we can conclude these conversations pretty quickly.

Like, are you open to it?

If so, what do we have to negotiate for that?

And I don't mean money-wise, I mean just like what does that look like to come up with some agreements on it?

If not, let's move on.

But it'd be great to get some clarity on that.

And also, what's the upside of it?

Is there any way to thank the businesses that are contributing needed parking in in this area?

Is there anything that we can do to kind of surface that for them and um maybe send them some business along the way?

Um, so those are the two big ones that come to mind for me.

The signage, the wayfinding, and then partnering with folks to kind of just access this parking that is right there for people, which I know is a point of frustration for folks that see empty lots and they can't do anything about it.

Um I think that's it for me.

You've heard from me a lot before.

I appreciate it.

I appreciate all the feedback.

I really do.

Thank you.

Board member Kimmy.

Thank you for the presentation.

Um I I um concur with uh what board member Hipnot said everything she said.

I doubled on on that.

Um I think what is the holdback from uh opening up the third and what's the I mean third third and Washington was it, our our library parking?

So we've been telling people they can park there because the only enforcement mechanism in that lot right now, well, I shouldn't say enforcement right, the only regulation in that lot right now is that you can't park there overnight.

Um and because it's been underutilized, we've told people to park there, but it was tied to the land use that established the library.

It's it's library parking.

And so for us to come in, the parking team, I should say, to come in and change the signage, it has to become public parking.

Otherwise, it's under the library's control.

To make it public parking, the land use has to be changed to public parking.

And parking as a principal use in downtown is a conditional use.

So we're actually we've already started the land use process to change essentially the designation from library parking to public parking through the land use process.

Uh, we actually have our neighborhood review meeting next week to uh with the CBNAC, and that's the next step to the application process.

But it does take a lot of time, and it actually does have to go in front of planning commission to make the final decision.

Can you can you time that so that we can have that change uh once we have in uh parking enforcement come along in next four or five days to 90 days?

They they actually are kind of along the same timeline right now.

Okay.

So I'm I'm actually cautiously optimistic that that that is what will happen.

Um it's also dependent on when it gets to planning commission and when it gets scheduled and and things that are somewhat out of my control, but um but the timeline to to go through that that land use process and the timeline to ramp up enforcement are relatively similar.

Okay, so then yes, it is not your control, but as a console, we can direct that to be expedited somehow.

I'm going to defer to Andy or Tyler on that question.

Yeah, I mean the planning commission um they are scheduled weekly meetings, so their cadence is a little easier to meet than than some other boards and commissions, but yeah, we can check into that to see what uh what the schedule is.

I don't I think Molly's right.

I think they'll they'll line up um similarly later this summer.

Okay, I mean just point of fact that we we like to see that implemented and changed you know pretty quickly.

I don't want this to be another six months before we see major change, so that's the sentiment.

Um other question is um I'm I'm pretty much aligned with everyone.

I just want people to know there's a massive uh free parking available and it's it's used, it's readily used.

And as long as people park there, I don't think we'll have too many changes that we have to make with uh even time uh management or frequency, I think it's pretty fairly distributed.

One thing I might add is that in the morning this loading and unloading on 1st Street and Watson and the double park on the Watson is holding up the traffic majorly.

And I think we need to discuss like um we cannot have loading and unloading on that Watson Street.

So somehow figure that out that they have to use some other way or designate a place across the street somehow, but they cannot double park there because it's a major uh thoroughway.

So that's the last comment I have.

Thank you for the presentation.

Thank you.

Okay, I'll throw in a few comments.

Um I had some good comments there.

And just laughing inwardly for myself because of just how frustrating I think just in general government bureaucracy can be, even for those of us who are in it.

Like we've got a public parking lot that people use as public parking, and yet we have to go through the process to get it actually approved to be public parking.

Because if somebody else wants to have their own public parking lot on their own property, they need to we need to be able to say even the government goes through the same process.

And it's just frustrating because it takes so long.

Uh but it's also what holds us accountable to our own.

Uh so it's good and bad and painful in the waiting process.

Um I also appreciate Councillor Kimmy's comments about Watson and loading zones.

Um I've had a frustration of people parking and loading in the bike lanes too.

And um I think Watson is particularly problematic for it.

So I don't know if that's tied up with enforcement or just when we're planning out loading zones, making sure we're putting them off of that main roadway, even not directly on first street next to it so that traffic piles up, but just making sure we're thoughtful about where that's being located.

Um comments about bike parking, herb space management.

That is high on my priority list.

Um, we talk a lot about parking cars in general with this strategy, and that's good.

It's the main purpose.

But I think Councillor Dougger mentions it sometimes too, just framing it as how how are people able to access the places they're wanting to go.

And it is really hard to know if you're going to be able to have a spot to park your bike in the Diamond Commons or at the RECER or anywhere throughout downtown.

And um when I was with the BDA, we got eight or ten or twelve bike racks that funded through a grant and worked with the city to help get them installed, but um that was still difficult, making sure it's the right placement.

So I don't know if there's partnerships we can have with BDA or community or businesses that want to install their own bike racks, but if we can make that easier so that it's not even always us doing the work, that's great.

Um so curb space management is higher on my priority list.

Um shared parking.

I'll share it, but I like it in concept.

I'll say when I was with the BDA, it was often very frustrating.

And I felt like this is me personally, I felt frustrated because it felt like something I like I was trying to do and get uh businesses to agree to partner with us on, but knowing that the success rate was actually almost impossible.

Um the pushback that I always heard was liability concerns, and the BDA couldn't cover it.

The city, I'm not sure if the city can cover private lots with our own insurance if it's sharing parking after hours.

So if there's some way for us to overcome some of those challenges and help, that would be great.

Molly, I don't know if you have thoughts on like creative strategies there.

Like I just feel like I'm we're spending wheels with it a lot of times.

Yeah, I think that uh you and I you and I were in that together when that was happening, and it was frustrating, and we did have a um a lot of those conversations.

Um that's why one of the strategies that I've been looking at is around employee parking in public in private parking lots, because um what we have heard from from property owners is that they're gonna feel a lot better knowing who is there.

Um so you know, if you're if you have an employee permit and there's terms and conditions that go with that permit, uh you know, that permit is revocable if you're gonna vandalize somebody's property.

You know, the hope would be that that wouldn't happen, but of course, um, you know, that if they know I you know, three spaces are gonna be used by these three employees of this specific business, they're gonna feel a lot more comfortable with that than just having the general public use their their lot.

And so how can we utilize those spaces best?

Or also just the customers of this one business that are gonna use this other business's lot after ours, um, which is kind of your older model of of shared parking, so that we're not asking them to share it with the general public, we're asking them to share it with a subset of users that they can identify.

Um, it still gets that subset of users into underutilized parking and off of the street to open that up for customers and alleviate some of those fears.

So that those are the conversations that I have found just by finding out what the liability concern is.

Um in at least in concept, they are most open to okay.

No, thank you.

I think the focus on employee shared parking might be more fruitful.

I think Henards and some of the businesses there have shared parking with Beaverton Pharmacy, just private agreements between them.

Um I could be mixing up some business.

That is that's a more traditional um parking agreement where customers of a specific restaurant are allowed to use the Beaverton pharmacy parking.

Yeah.

But yes, so there is a shared sort of your traditional shared agreement there.

Okay, good.

Uh I appreciate board members Dougars' comments about smart parking signage.

Um I pulled up the street view of the sign and band that he was talking about.

Um I really like that.

And I'm not like a somebody who gets really excited about wayfinding signage, but I think that is something that could be really helpful for people.

And when I think about what Bureau's role should actually be in parking enforcement, a lot of times I feel like uh parking enforcement is not might not need to be the role of Bureau long-term, but infrastructure is, and so I'm thinking like way find wait smart wayfinding signage.

I am a supporter of paid parking infrastructure, and I think a Bureau can get some of that set up so that we can start getting a financial return on the use of our curb space so that when Bureau's not around, the city doesn't have a big liability that we're taking on.

Um but like smart signage, paid infrastructure, all of that kind of ties in together, I think, with Bureau Infrastructure Investments.

Um the parking the downtown parking meetup last summer.

I was really surprised to hear from businesses that they were actually more open to the idea of paid parking, and one of the reasons for that is because people could just they could choose how long they wanted to stay in downtown.

So if it was 30 minutes, great, if it's an hour and a half or two and a half hours, they would have that option.

Um so I'm okay with I'm I'm good with paid parking, but I think for May 1 management.

Uh the residential permits, because we're almost sounds like we're almost done with those updating that program.

But residential permits and then uh oh man, I just lost it.

That's good for now.

Thank you.

Um yeah, but thank you for this.

Um I think I don't remember who said it.

Somebody said a timeline.

Oh, Counselor Tibnon.

That would also help me, and I think it's hard for you to give us that right now before we had a chance to weigh in on the strategies, but I'm hopeful as we can keep going forward.

You'll be able to share like a general timeline based off of what we shared with you, and if it can tie in with some of the board number Hartmeyer Priggs' thoughts about uh financial return or financial cost of some of the things we're doing, so we can thank for some of that.

I think all of that could help some of our future conversations.

But that is all I had for you.

Um I don't see any other names in the chat.

Does anybody anybody else have any comments?

Any other board members.

I have one quick one.

Um can you possibly give us the uh cost estimate for any parking um like a parking kitty or whatever program that we can maybe possibly implement for next meeting?

We uh we've actually started talking to the software company.

Well, I shouldn't say we've started talking to the software company.

We actually already use the software company that created parking kitty.

It's a custom application that was created by Passport.

Passport is actually the citation software that we use.

Um, so we've actually started digging into that.

I I can definitely give you some ideas of what the software, like if we wanted to do something custom, what software development would look like.

Um that's also tied to parking infrastructure, which is not a number I would be comfortable giving you at the moment because it would be how many, you know, are we going with meters or are we going with um parking stations?

Are we using this kind of software?

What kind of electrical infrastructure needs to go into that or solar?

Um so that's a number that would be very uh variable.

But to develop a a software like parking kitty, we can get you that information.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, board member Kimmy.

Okay.

Molly, I don't see anybody else's name in the chat, so thank you very much.

Is there anything else you need from us?

No, this has been very helpful, and I really appreciate everybody's feedback and input tonight and along the way.

Um, and we'll continue to um move forward.

Uh we've got a number of things that uh might be coming before Bureau and Council in the fall when we get through the summer.

Um, there might be some other community events that happen in the summer to prepare for those uh those work sessions and presentations in the fall.

Um so uh and we'll just continue to plug away.

We've got we've got quite a few things happening at once.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you, Molly.

And board member Huston did email in for comments.

So yes, yes, I received those.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, well, thank you, Molly.

Thank you all.

Okay.

We've got one more item on our agenda list tonight.

The executive director's report.

Andy, do you have anything for us tonight?

Yeah, thank you, uh, board chair.

I'll just run down a few items of note for folks because we'll just have a uh we've got a budget committee meeting on Thursday night, and then a really really brief Bureau slash Bureau budget committee meeting um in June as well.

So we won't have a lot of time for um uh deliberation before the summer break happens, but just real quickly.

Uh with the building improvement program uh grant cycle for this uh spring and heading into the summer, we had 13 applications, and all of those were scored by our review committee.

We'll have 11 projects going forward uh for a total of 182,000 uh dollars spread throughout the Bureau district.

Um the metallock project was referenced a couple times tonight.

I'm sure everyone has at least been by on Fifth Avenue.

The community center is no longer, so we're past demolition, and that project is um we're entering the construction phase, which is very exciting.

Um the loop project was also also mentioned, and the same with the Millikan Way um improvement project between Hall and Watson.

Both of those projects have had constructability meetings with the adjacent property owners.

So we can get their ideas and thoughts on um construction scheduling and sequencing.

Um that that won't happen until next year, next spring, the earliest.

But we're making sure that we can take that feedback into consideration as we go into bidding, and that's included in the documents.

So we're being really um transparent and coordinating with the property owners that would be most affected.

The large scale community division grant is due this weekend, and that will be for our community connections project that we've talked about a bit with um kind of daylighting and making improvements and Greek enhancements and tying into the sub basin strategy.

So that's an exciting project.

That would be Metro Grant funding.

Um so I know our staff is working on that, and they're putting all the pieces together to have that in this weekend.

The Beaverton Downtown Association, some of you may have seen they've been doing some programming at the Commons.

They're doing they have a pretty good schedule stuff thus far, doing um a few events uh per month.

So I'd advise you to go to their uh website and check out that schedule.

And then lastly, to kind of follow on to the parking discussion, uh the high school, uh Beaverton High School will be going into their um the last phase of their construction.

And for the for the next school year, they'll have no on-site parking.

So we're we're having some discussions with their staff and their faculty um about um kind of what those um what the options will be, what the impacts are going to be for downtown Beaverton, and how we can partner on you know, making sure that students and faculty and staff and everyone kind of knows where they need to be uh trying to get ahead of that and be proactive and and working together um to make sure that there are um we've try to minimize the impacts as much as possible in downtown parking situation because we're trying to work through our own strategies.

So um just a fair warning there probably will be some growing pains.

We acknowledge that, and I think there was in the last phase.

Tyler could attest to that, but uh we're trying to do our part and be proactive and have those conversations with them right now so we can all be prepared for when the next school year starts because they won't have any on-site parking.

So that's just kind of a heads up that we're um trying to work with them on minimizing uh any impacts as much as we can.

And um, I think that's it for me, board chair, teacher.

Thank you, Andy.

Uh I'll just share that last Thursday night.

You mentioned well, you mentioned the BDA is doing some of the activities of the Tiny Commons.

Uh, last Thursday night was their last music or their first uh music performance in the Dining Commons.

It was really lively.

Um kind of a jazz something.

I'm not good with music, but it was fun and it was very popular, and there are a bunch of kids there.

Um so every Thursday for the next like 12 or 13 weeks.

Um so you also check it out sometime.

Any other questions or comments for Andy?

Okay.

Well, Andy, that's all we've got for you.

And uh that's the last item on our agenda.

So uh our next Bureau meeting is actually the Bureau of Budget Committee.

Well, the next Bureau of Budget.

Next Bureau Board meeting is June 16th, but we've got to be our budget committee meeting for that Thursday, May 28th.

That's just two days from now.

So we'll see you all then and feel free to reach out to staff with any questions you've got before then.

Okay.

Well, thank you, everybody, and we are adjourned.