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SR-417-004-05 F:\PCD\Share\prefkkexp.doc Santa Monica, California Council Meeting: February 22, 2000 To: Mayor and City Council From: City Staff Subject: Recommendation to Adopt a Resolution Expanding Preferential Parking Zone KK and Amending City Council Resolution 9344 CCS Introduction This report recommends the City Council: th 1. Adopt a resolution expanding Preferential Parking Zone KK to include 17 Street between Santa Monica Boulevard and Colorado Avenue and amending City Council Resolution 9344 CCS. 2. Direct the Finance Department to increase the revenue projection for account 01415.400290 by $2250. Background th Residents submitted to the City a petition for preferential parking on 17 Street between Broadway and Colorado Avenue in February of 1998. The signed petition represented 71%, or 27 of the 38 residential units on the block. A parking study was th completed in the spring of 1998. In October of 1998 residents of 17 Street between Santa Monica Boulevard and Broadway submitted a completed petition to the City. A study of the two-block area was completed in the Spring of 1999. It demonstrated that residents? ability to park is substantially hindered by non-resident parking. Staff 1 th recommends that the City Council expand Zone KK to include 17 Street between th Santa Monica Boulevard and Colorado Avenue. Zone KK already includes 18 Street between Santa Monica Boulevard and Broaday and the restrictions correspond to the th suggested restrictions for 17 Street, ?No Parking, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except by permit.? Discussion th Residential units on 17 Street are mostly multi-family with a few single family residences. Many residents do not have adequate off street parking and place a high demand on street parking. Residents use up to 60% of the on-street parking for their long-term parking needs. Residents in the proposed Zone have been affected by spillover parking from commercial uses along Santa Monica Boulevard, Broadway and Colorado Avenue including automobile related businesses, professional offices and th industrial facilities. Other land uses on 17 Street include: two childcare facilities (1500 block) Chabad House, a religious institution, and Holiday Villa and Holiday Villa East, retirement communities (1400 block). When the high demand for residential parking is compounded by the high demand for business parking, the situation becomes th extremely difficult for the residents of 17 Street. The parking study completed in the spring of 1999 found that the parking occupancy th was consistenly greater than 85% for both sides of the 1400 block of 17 Street from 9 th a.m. to 5 p.m., and on the 1500 block of 17 Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At one point in 2 the afternoon on the west side of the 1400 block, occupancy was over 100% with parked cars blocking driveways. Due to the high demand of parking by residents and the amount of parking that will be unaffected because it is adjacent to business and institutional land uses, relatively few vehicles will be displaced. The vehicles that are displaced can be accomodated on surrounding streets, including Santa Monica Boulevard, Broadway and Colorado Avenue. Comment from Residents and Businesses Staff invited residents and businesses in the affected area to a meeting to discuss the proposed regulations in December, 1999. The residents who attended the meeting and who contacted the Transportation Management Division in response to the meeting notice were in favor of the proposed restrictions. Businesses in the area that contacted the City were made aware of the availaibility of on-street meter permits that may help alleviate some of their parking needs. Staff has also communicated with the management of the Holiday Villa retirement th communities on the Northwest and Northeast corners of 17 Street and Broadway and th the Chabad House at 1428 17 Street. The two organizations were made aware of the meeting and asked for their input regarding the regulations. The manager of the Holiday Villa properties has agreed to allow the non-loading spaces adjacent to their th buildings on 17 Street be preferential parking spaces in exchange for the ability to 3 purchase 15 visitor parking permits, a number roughly equivalent to the number of th spaces on the 17 Street frontage. Staff has also spoken with representatives of Chabad House regarding the proposed th regulations. Chabad House, a synagogue and educational center located at 1428 17 th Street, has concerns regarding the regulations on 17 Street. While they would not be eligible to purchase parking permits, as they are not a residence, staff has communicated with Chabad House representatives that staff would like to work with Chabad House on establishing regulations at the three spaces adjacent to Chabad th House on 17 Street. The three spaces would not be subject to preferential parking because Chabad House is an institutional use, and the City?s general practice is to not instiute preferential parking adjacent to institutional uses. Proposed Regulations The proposed regulations balance the need to provide residents with preferential access to parking on their street with the needs of their commercial and institutional neighbors by allocating the spaces available on the basis of the street frontage of these th uses. The proposed regulations are consistent with those on the parallel blocks of 18 th and 19 Streets. These are the closest regulated streets in the neighborhood. Visitors and employees of commercial establishments on Santa Monica Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard and Broadway can park at metered parking spaces along those streets as well as in off-street parking facilities provided by those uses. There are regulations on th 17 Street north of Santa Monica Boulevard that allow for two-hour parking, but 4 because people are reluctant to park and cross Santa Monica Boulevard on foot, and because of the high proportion of non-residential and, therefore, non-preferential, street th frontage on 17 Street itself, staff is recommending that the proposed preferential th parking zone on 17 Street be incorporated into the zone immediately east instead. The proposed parking restriction ?No parking, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except by permit? are supported by the residents who attended the meeting and many of those that corresponded with the City. The proposed regulations are thth identical to regulations on 18 Street and 19 Street between Santa Monica Boulevard th and Broadway, thus staff recommends that the Council expand the Zone including 18 th Street, Zone KK, to include 17 Street. Budget/Fiscal Impact Initially, it is estimated that approximately 150 permits will be purchased by area residents in the proposed zone. This will generate approximately $2250 annually in additional revenue in FY 99/00 at account 01415.400290. The budget should amended to reflect this additional revenue. The preferential parking signs will be installed by City crews. CEQA Analysis The proposed project has been determined to be categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Article 19, Section 15301 ( c ) which was recently amended to define Class 1 exempt projects in the following way: "Class 1 consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, 5 leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving little or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency?s determination. . ." This exemption lists as an example of "existing facilities:" "( c ) Existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities." Preferential parking zones involve only the issuance of permits for the use of an existing public street and include negligible or no expansion of this existing use. Recommendations: It is recommended that the City Council: 1. Approve the attached Resolution expanding Preferential Parking Zone KK to include th 17 Street, and Amending Resolution 9344 CCS (Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica Re-Establishing Various Preferential Parking Zones) by replacing Exhibit A. 2. Direct the Finance Department to make the budget adjustments outlined in this report. Attachments: A Resolution Establishing Preferential Parking Exhibit A - Preferential Parking Zones B Vicinity Map Prepared by: Suzanne Frick, Director of Planning and Community Development Lucy Dyke, Transportation Planning Manager Beth Rolandson, Transportation Planning Assistant 6