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PlanningBoard | 2009-02-09 | 6 | district for the North Park Street area. The parking structure would be built up front and establishing an assessment district would require repayment over twenty years by each property owner. Setting up assessment districts requires fifty one percent of the property owners to agree. Board member Cook stated that establishing assessment districts is a common tool used by cities to provide parking, and could be particularly useful North of Lincoln. Staff stated that the challenge is if fifty one percent of the residents do not support creating an assessment district, the City must provide money up front to build the structure. President Kohlstrand asked how long it took to reach $148,000 in in-lieu parking fees and if any funds from the account were used towards the civic garage or for improvements within the City. Staff replied that none of the funds in the account were used for the parking garage. Staff does not know if funds were used for any City improvements. Staff stated that in six years there had been approximately four or five parking in lieu requests covering four or five parking spaces. This level of activity does not generate a substantial amount of money. President Kohlstrand stated it is difficult for the City to provide money up front for construction of a parking garage. In lieu fees usually do not result in full recuperation. Board member Autornio asked if it was unrealistic to require current businesses to pay an annual fee. He suggested dividing Park Street into four or five parking zones and charging a yearly assessment fee to maintain parking in the zone. President Kohlstrand stated that the Board would like to hear the perspectives of PSBA and WABA. Board member Cook stated that her approach is to ask what do we want to see both South of Lincoln and North of Lincoln in 20 years. She believes sales tax generating uses that keep the corridor vital and replace the taxes lost from auto row is an appropriate vision for the area. She asked how the City can get high sales tax uses to come to the area. The parking fees and solutions should facilitate the types of uses you want. She believes there needs to be resolution of the issues between residential and business uses. She believes it is unfair that 80 percent of employees are parking on the street yet we are asking residents to fund a residential parking program. The responsibility should be on businesses to facilitate parking for the employees. She stated the City should make it easy to accomplish this by pricing or some other method. She asked what are the problems staff is solving for and suggested that staff structure fees and incentives to resolve those problems. Staff stated that the residential parking permit program could become a drain on City funds if it is not supported by the residents. Page 6 of 10 | PlanningBoard/2009-02-09.pdf |