Parking demand and enforcement considerations.

At this time, I'd like to introduce Edward with the Cordino Group, and he will provide an overview and of the findings and recommendations and facilitate discussion with the commission regarding potential policy direction.

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All right, good evening, uh Mayor Commissioners.

Uh, thank you for having us back again uh to discuss this very important topic.

Uh you recall last time um we were um the commissioner had asked that we look into certain things a little bit more, uh culture stacks, fire, uh, and uh so we uh you know step back, got together with staff, you see Danny and Sharon, uh we got with fire and we got with code enforcement and uh public works and so forth.

So we'll go with some of the T issues review today, looking at public safety, operational access, infrastructure, equity enforcement.

We do have some preliminary recommendations for you.

Um, but you know, ultimately we also uh uh hope to get out of this meeting from a staff perspective um a bit more direction on how you like that to proceed uh uh with those recommendations one way or the other.

Um do have an updated crash review.

Uh we update it from three to five years as requested, and uh looking at the time between January 1st, 2021 to December 31st, 2025.

Um we uh note that there's a total of just over 6,000 documented crashes and a small amount, only like 100, I believe.

I think it was Commissioner Cole, when you had it asked if we towards to look into more about actually how much we're on uh uh on site because we were like, well, that's really not that much.

Um and it is a small amount, uh 16%, uh 16 crashes occurred with on-demand delivery vehicles, and nine crashes occurred with emergency vehicles.

So it's not a very high number of the crashes uh overall in the city.

Um of those 99 crashes, which are all mapped, we were requested to map them as well.

You see that the citywide, no fatality and capaciting injuries, only three of them with minor injuries and four with possible injuries.

Um it does occur in both the new and the older residential areas.

We were asked to look at, you know, where or not there was a difference because our newer residential areas have uh smaller ride of ways, and we know that that to be kind of an issue.

Uh, but we found no discernible significant pattern when we expanded the data uh uh looking at from uh um from the DAT standpoint.

However, we do find that of the crashes that did occur, there are restricted site distance due to parked vehicles.

Um though, you know, it's not while it's not overly a big issue statistically, it is enough of an issue to have a hundred crashes in those years and that time frame.

And you know, vehicles backing out drive with limited visibility, that could be an issue for children.

Uh in particular, I know that's something that was brought up by the commissioner last time.

Like we look at like uh uh uh um crashes with the children.

Um there are no documented crashes involving children to drive visibility zone, though we're very thankful for that.

Uh we still think that from an engineering and planning standpoint that you just have a little bit of an elevated risk of uh of that.

Um uh, you know, there is one document crash within cul-de-sac.

Um the vice mayor asked us to look into the culture fact a little bit more.

Um that was at Hartley Court.

Uh we do find that there are roads to two or more entree park vehicles crashes.

Um we separate them out.

Um,

you

know, places like Fernanda Drive.

Not really surprising there because of the more narrow right-of-way.

Uh

the heat, kettering, roaddale, wanderer,

you

know, some of these sound familiar because they're part of our newer uh uh subdivision.

So there is, you know, enough to for us to say, hey, you might want to think about the width of your roadways, um, and and design standards.

We also went back and chatted with our um our fire department, and thank you, uh Sharon, for uh getting us uh a lot of the vital information we need to kind of look at this a little bit further.

We appreciate the fire department giving us the time and and and information.

We know that our fire apparatus uh requires a minimum of 20 feet of unstructured space for deploy equipment.

We know that you know, from an engineering design standpoint, we look at something called the Green Book, uh, which would be used.

Um you want certain width for travel purposes.

And they really should be based on design speed.

So you have lower speed, people aren't traveling along, you know, certain speed, you have a little bit more like a reaction time.

You can get away with slightly smaller widths, but still, you know, 20 to 25 mile per hour, you want 10 feet of travel lanes and 30, 35 mile per hour, you want 10 to 11 feet.

Um you're running a bus or something on a roadway, you want 11 feet minimum.

Um, it's pretty much engineering design standards.

And we try to take this from a standard standpoint, think about recommendation.

You

add all this together up, right?

You want to be able to have uh you have to run a fire truck through for them to turn to be have staging in case, you know, you know, having forbidden the fire, but you know, we have great, you know, staff here that you know will respond to it, but you gotta be able to get there.

And that means that when you have certain roadways, you should have a certain amount of width.

And so one of the recommendations that we want you to consider is um having no on-street parking road with a design speed over 35 miles per hour.

Um, and then based on the design speed of the road, think about restricting your parking so that you have enough maneuverability.