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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Parking Advisory Committee - 01/23/2017 Minutes-Updated Parking Advisory Committee Meeting Monday January 23,2017 CCPD, 51"Floor Chiefs Conference Room Members Present: Darlene Gregory(Chair) UNI Richard Durham (Vice Chair) Vice Chairperson Erica Lozano CCCVB Ginny Price District 1 Jim Swan BOMA William Hoover Res. Living Property Owner Terry Sweeney DMD Alyssa Barrera City—Business Liaison Donald Moore City—CCPD Staff Liaison Timothy Frazier City—CCPD Staff Liaison Berardo Cantu City—Parking Control/Recorder Buck Brice Assistant City Attorney Jim Corbett Walker Parking Jaime Windfont Walker Parking Raymond Chong City- Street Operations Darryl Meadows American Bank Center—SMG Michael Flores DGHG Properties Renissa Garza City—Development Services The meeting was called to order by Darlene Gregory at 5:34 p.m. A motion was made by Darlene Gregory and second by Mr.Richard Durham to approve the minutes for October 3, 2016 as printed;motion carried unanimously. Unfinished business: Captain Moore requested for Darlene Gregory to call for nominations on reappointing positions for the Parking Advisory Committee Chair and Vice Chair. Ginny Price nominated Darlene Gregory for Chair and second by Richard Durham;motion carried unanimously. Darlene Gregory nominated Richard Durham as Vice Chair and second by William Hoover;motion carried unanimously. Terry Sweeny also notified of his resignation on the committee after this meeting and is recommending for the Downtown Management District(DMD)positions to be filled by David Allen from Best Western's Management and Mike Flores,a Business owner of Flanagans. Terry Sweeney provided an update to the PAC on the Bike sharing program. Launched August 26,2016 with 40 bikes located at 7 stations in downtown Corpus Christi. From Aug 26In 2016—Jan 22,2017 the program has recorded the following: • 2,061 active members • 5,955 trips taken • 29-minute median trip duration • 15,830 miles logged • 744,325 calories burned The first expansion will be Feburary 28,2017 with 4 bikes and a new 8-rack station at the Cosmopolitan Apartments with each of their residents receiving a free annual membership. Alyssa Barrera invited Jim Corbett and Jaime Winfont to speak about the RFP results from the Walker Consultant Company to give their visual presentation on their findings and recommendations.The goal was to create a parking demand assesment of each of the four districts on peak days and times gathering all the information and placing it on a strategic implementation plan and providing an executive summary of its' findings: • Maximizing parking options using shared parking principles. • Involve the public investment into the parking infrastructure that will help with economic development and provide a sense of convenience and access to the community. • Received 409 responses on an online parking survey in a five week period. Results showed the community is confused as to where they can park and whether it was a public or a private parking area due to the lack of signage. Another question posed was how the public felt about paying for parking versus free parking resulting in the public willing to pay for the security and safe feeling at night. • The demand of parking was collected and put into a parking inventory that showed different areas of how much is availabe in an area versus occupied using percentages for utilization of hot spots. • The third command assesment showed projected outcomes that may require additional parking in each of the four districts that created an analysis for the next ten years that shows our city being able to have enough parking in each of the districts. • Walker Parking Consultants discussed possibly coming back to collect more data during the tourism time to see if there is a differance in each of the districts. • Form a Parking Implementation Plan that would create four different priority tasks that consist of a parking alliance,create a signage package,public education/communication program and last to expand the ParkCC app. • Discussion for a need of a parking garage and what districts would benefit most if ever needed. • Discussion of the city's ordinance on parking garages and parking lot needs to be looked at due to not all requirements are being met. • Recommendation for parking rates and hours to be standardized to a two hour parking to benefit both the consumers and the businesses. Areas need to be repainted to let people know where they can park. Darlene Gregory requested to have a press release on the Light Up CC. E-mailed to Captain Donald Moore to get approval by the Chief,the City Manager,and then the city press release liaison. Captain Moore gave the Financial Report with an unencumbered balanced of$190,568.00 spending 4.99%. $10,000 will go towards the Bike Sharing Service provided by the CC Downtown Management District. New Business: Darlene Gregory is recommending to have an April 3'meeting on the first Monday. A motion was made by Richard Durham and second by Ginny Price,motion carried unanimously. Public Comment: No public comments. Items to place on the next agenda: 1) Approval of Minutes for the January 23,2017 meeting. 2) Update on press release for Light Up CC. 3) Possible future revitalization projects for PAC. This meeting was adjourned by Ms. Darlene Gregory at 7:35 p.m.