Agenda Item
City Traffic Commission
Item #: 4.1. 5/11/2022 File #: 22-0274
TO: Chair and Members of the City Traffic Commission
THRU: Larry Tay, City Traffic Engineer
FROM: Dave Allenbach, Transportation Analyst
1. SUBJECT
Request to implement permit parking on both sides of Citrus Street between Sycamore and Walnut Avenues
2. SUMMARY
A request was made to implement permit parking on the aforementioned street. The request meets the requirements of the City’sNeighborhood Permit Parking Program and received adequate support from affected residents.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
Approve the request, and forward to the City Council for final approval.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
The total expenditure for the project is $1,000 and will be funded in Minor Traffic Control Devices (16302) through Traffic Improvement Measure M2 (263).
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
Goal 1: Provide for a safe community
b. Provide and maintain infrastructure necessary to ensure the safety of the public.
6. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND
Background
A resident of Citrus Street submitted a request to initiate the process for neighborhood permit parking on Citrus Street on March 21, 2021. Upon receipt of the application fee, Traffic Division staff initiated the evaluation process by establishing a study area and conducting a parking occupancy study to determine which streets would be eligible under the City’sNeighborhood Permit Parking Program (NPPP) guidelines.
While the original request was submitted for Citrus Street only, staff believed that potential impacts to portions of Sycamore Avenue and Batavia Street, if permit parking were to be approved, warranted the inclusion of these streets in the study area. Doing so would provide those residents with an opportunity to participate in the permit parking process.
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Existing Conditions
Staff mapped and counted the number of legal parking spaces for each of the three streets in the study area. Because the demand for on-street parking was highest in the evenings, staff conducted the parking observations during those hours. Beginning at 5:30 P.M., and progressively later each night, staff made ten observations in the subject neighborhood, including one Sunday observation. In accordance with the City’sadopted NPPP, a street parking occupancy rate of 75% is required to qualify for permit parking. The level of parking occupancy observed by staff for all the streets in the study area is just over 79%.
Because parking occupancy exceeded the minimum 75% threshold, a petition was circulated to determine the level of neighborhood support. A petition letter and a list of permit parking advantages and disadvantages were provided by the Traffic Division to each of the property owners (resident and absentee) in the study area. Traffic Division staff mailed petition letters to the unresponsive property owners on two separate occasions to encourage public input, with the follow-up efforts producing additional responses. The table below shows the street-by-street results of the neighborhood polling as of April 21, 2022.
Affected Streets Households In Favor Households OpposedUnreturned Citrus Street 26 83.9% 0 0% 6 19%
Batavia Street 5 35.7% 0 0% 9 64.3%
Sycamore Ave. 4 26.6% 1 6% 10 66.6%
The final petition results indicate that only Citrus Street meets the minimum 75% support required by the NPPP, with 83.9% of property owners in favor. Batavia Street and Sycamore Avenue had 35.7% and 26.6% in favor, respectively, far below the required threshold.
Analysis
Staff has documented a consistently high demand for on-street parking on the subject street that becomes progressively greater through the evening hours. The level of parking demand exceeds the minimum requirements under the policies of the NPPP. While the three streets comprising the study area meet the parking occupancy requirements, only Citrus Street demonstrated the necessary support to implement permit parking.
Given the existing parking demand on Batavia Street and Sycamore Avenue, it is not likely that the parking situation would get substantially worse for residents of those streets if they are voluntarily excluded from the parking permit program. However, the following should be kept in mind:
1. Should the residents of Batavia Street and Sycamore Avenue wish to be included in the permit program in the future, they will be required to pay the application fees and meet any program requirements that are in place at the time the request is submitted.
2. Any vehicle parked in a designated parking-by-permit area without a permit is subject to citation; furthermore, parking permits do not supersede street sweeping restrictions in the neighborhood.
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Recommendation
Based on the above, staff recommends that the City Traffic Commission approve the implementation of a Neighborhood Parking Permit Program for the following street segments, and forward to the City Council for final approval:
Both sides of Citrus Street from Walnut Avenue to Sycamore Avenue.
The proponent and all residents and businesses within potential impact areas of this neighborhood were notified of this item on Traffic Commission Meeting agenda. In response to said notice and notwithstanding the petition results, four letters were submitted to the city expressing concern over the proposal.
7. ATTACHMENTS
· Letter of Request and receipt for Application Fee
· Notification Letter and receipt for remaining application fee · Area Map
· Letters of Concern
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