LEGEND: Dashed (-) are recommendations from the Parking Study, Dots are recommendations from the Board of the Partnership and the small squares (•) are from the Public meeting.
- Make economic development the driver for Parking
- Stop talking about Parking signage and way finding and do something about it
- Name Lots (draft a set of names for lots) use street name and side street to help identify location (use CVB, Ackland and others to help implement)
- Make pricing simply (all parking $__) simplify
- Recommend advisory board to manage parking
- Utilize 10-15 minute grace period
- Offer Courtesy tickets
- Add private parking to managed parking
- Add parking for future growth
- Evaluate Event Pricing
- Add valet parking to east end
• Study does not analyze paid versus free parking
• Add Lot 5 replacement into numbers
• Is there economic benefit to free parking?
• Where Employees Park is not the answer to parking
• Numbers do not add up (Offer $.50 per hour parking)
-Two hour parking should be the dominant duration for on-street parking
-Look at utilizing Partnership to manage parking, for economic development purposes.
-The other duration that should be found on-street is fifteen minute or thirty minute parking for use as pick-up and drop off stalls or very short-term parking.
-Add parking in front of University Square (DONE).
• Town should contract out parking (privatize parking)
• Prepare and grow parking so that when downtown “rocks” we are prepared
• Improve lighting for parking
• Extend shuttle service to after hours
• Need new Parking Management
• Town should pursue ideas for working with private parking (air rights and other)
• Parking profits for improving parking? Pricing? For What?
• Parking needs to become an economic development tool
• Add more public parking
• No handicapped parking in 100 block of Franklin
• Help churches and private business see benefit of public parking in private lots
• Churches use public parking to meet their needs, needs to work vice-versus
• Add more parking to increase commercial tax base
• Rethink Parking Management, Centralized management good, Partnership does not have resources for parking management
· It appears Town treats Parking only as revenue source, not as economic development tool.
· Holiday Parking (Christmas) is difficult to understand.
· Less convenient parking should be priced accordingly.
· Tourist perspective of finding parking, not easy.
· CHDP should manage parking, especially if it is to be a tool of economic development.
· Need cultural change in parking.
· If there is net income for parking it should be spent on Marketing, lighting and way-finding.
· Lots need easy to remember names, like Rosemary Deck – not Wallace Deck.
· Can Town ask churches for trade-off with them getting on street parking for free on Sundays’ and we get something in return? Use of lots at night?
· Management of parking should include management of private lots, for the good of downtown.
· It is not predatory if signs are posted, “If you Park here tonight, move your car by 6am or you will be towed.”
· CHDP should lead this process – our purpose is economic development and will need the town to step up and do things like increase security and do the cleaning of the town – what they should already be doing.
· The valet parking partnership with UNC is very successful – UNC is going along because CHDP is managing it – if they have a problem they know that CHDP will have to deal with it.
• Offer 15 minute parking
• Offer a 10-15 minute grace period
• Offer Courtesy tickets to first-time offenders
• Offer customer appreciation parking
• Give a benefit for free parking (in private parking after 5pm)
• Add 10-15 minute spaces at beginning and end of parking on-street
• Make 1st two hours inexpensive
- The Town should identify all the costs for parking, especially the chargeback to cover administration of the on and off-street parking so that stakeholders understand that the parking rates and fines are justifiable and that there are no questions about the amount of the charges.
- Ultimately, the parking rates need to cover actual expenses including repairs for the parking system and sinking fund deposits.
- We do not recommend adjusting the hourly parking rates on-street or off street except as otherwise noted.
-Parking rate need to cover all expenses including any maintenance associated with parking operation.
-Offer first 15 minutes free at parking meters.
-Look at strategies for shifting parking to under-utilized areas and more as an economic development tool. (i.e. further away, less expensive)
-Evaluate event parking policy and look for ways to make improvements. (Especially for downtown oriented events)
-Drop the peak-hour pricing on parking.
-Expand valet parking to east end of downtown.
-Look for opportunities for adding bicycle lockers and additional bike parking in downtown.
-Include bike parking in marketing efforts.
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Plan for scooter parking
spaces and not on sidewalks
• Blue Urban Bike program
-Install Pedestrian Way-finding Kiosks
-Minimize surface lots and large breaks between buildings to promote walking in the downtown.
• Reward Active Living parking (walking to destination)
• Parking deck has poor signage
-Develop a marketing plan for downtown parking. (Web site, signs and other communication)
• Town-led marketing of parking important
• Way-finding and signage important to parking success
• Way-finding is an issue
· Way-finding is critical to success of parking (important to Town and UNC also).
· Durham has a great way-finding program, Asheville currently implementing a new way-finding program.
· Need maps and sign all over downtown. People are willing to walk further is they know where they are going and the distance.
· Need to do an excellent job of marketing replacement parking and replacement parking signage.
· Concerned with aggressive enforcement
-Consider courtesy tickets for first time offenders; utilize handheld technology to track who is being ticketed.
-Discourage further development of private surface lots in downtown Chapel Hill.
-Consider a payment in-lieu for parking demand on future private buildings.
· Reconsider amounts charged for special event parking, especially events hosted by Town/Partnership