HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/7/2023 Item 6a, Tuman, R.
From:Robert Tuman <
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Cc:Leon, Jose (Luis)
Subject:Recommendations regarding downtown parking
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To whom it may concern:
Permit me to offer the following recommendations to enhance the user and business friendliness regarding downtown
parking:
1. End fee parking at 6 pm. If my wife and I meet elderly friends downtown for a leisurely meal, parking adds
considerable cost to the meal. I can't speak for my fellow citizens, but my wife and I and friends have been frequenting
businesses which offer free parking.
2. How about selling downtown parking passes to locals? As my wife and I age, we would be happy to buy a pass to
enable us to park and have a short walk to a restaurant, store, or coffee shop.
3. How about giving downtown establishments the same parking system which the medical office building at Sierra Vista
has. Every time I park in the Sierra Vista medical office building's structure, I get a ticket which the doctor's office
validates for free parking.
4. How about lowering the parking rates for a specific period of time (i.e. during holidays) and comparing revenue before
and after?
5. How about free parking during the holidays?
6. And lastly, how about first hour free parking at all the downtown structures? During this morning's conversation
with Luis in the parking division, he estimated that the other structures (the one across from the Palm Theatre is already
equipped with electronic equipment) will not be equipped with similar equipment until spring, 2024. Why can't this be
fast-tracked?
San Luis Obispo is a wonderful big small city in many ways. W still pinch ourselves even after living here for many years.
Downtown is a gem. Why not do whatever you can to bring it back to what it was a relatively short time ago.
Bob Tuman
4340 Wavertree St., SLO
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