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Home My WebLink About05/06/1997, 1 - ESTABLISHMENT OF RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT DISTRICT council j agenda Report U.` ..b- CITY OF SAN LUIS 0 R I S P 0 FROM: Mike McCluskey, Director of Public Works . Prepared By: Keith Opalewsld,Parking Manager SUBJECT: Establishment of Residential Parking Permit District CAO RECOND4ENDATION 1.) Adopt a resolution establishing a residential parking permit district in the Monterey Heights area as shown on (Attachment 1) with restricted parking between the hours of tam and 10pm, Monday- Friday. 2.) By motion, appropriate $2,000 from the unappropriated parking fund balance for sign and pole installation and purchase of materials to implement the proposed parking district. DISCUSSION Staff has received a petition (Exhibit A) from residents living in the Monterey Heights area seeking to establish a residential parking permit district in accordance with the provisions of Municipal Code—Section 10.36.170 (Designation of residential parking permit areas), which requires the support of a majority of residents living in the affected area in order to create a residential parking permit district. The petition is requesting that parking be restricted between the hours of tam and lOpm, Monday-Friday. The petitioners (48 out of 54 or 89%) feel that in order to reduce noise, air pollution and street litter, as well as relieve the burden on persons residing in the area in gaining access to their homes and to prevent erosion of the quality of life in their neighborhood, establishing a residential parking permit district is the means to meet these goals. Based upon the concerns expressed in the petition, staff conducted field surveys of the proposed district between 1-31-97 and 2-&97 in order to ascertain the level of the problem. The results (Exhibit B) of the field observations did support the petitioners' concerns of impacted barking on most streets within the proposed parking district. The streets closest to the campus (1800-1900 Slack and Hays, 100-200 Graves and 100 Henderson) were heavily impacted, with the remaining streets experiencing a moderate to low impact as you moved further into the neighborhood. As a result of the field observations and the potential for the parking problem to spillover into the neighborhood if a parking district was created, staff independently surveyed a number of adjoining blocks to determine if there was support for expanding the proposed district boundaries. Staff mailed out 116 letters to the 100-400 blocks of Grand, 300400 blocks of Graves and Henderson, and 1800-2000 blocks of McCollum, Hope, and Lommis Streets. Staff received 52 responses to the survey with sporadic and mixed responses. As shown on (Exhibit C) there was low to moderate support from any individual block, and no clearly defined pattern for contiguous expansion of adjoining blocks. Therefore, since the adjoining blocks do not have a majority of the residents interested in becoming part of the proposed parking district, staff would recommend that the district not be expanded beyond the original boundaries set forth in the petition. Council Agenda ReportResidential permit district Page 2 ][mpleme�ation Assuming passage of this District is approved, additional permits would need to be acquired and signs and poles would have to be ordered and installed. Necessary paperwork for first-time districts would be mailed to residents/owners during the summer with enforcement ready to begin in September of 1997. CONCURRENCES The proposed hours of 2am-10pm, M-F for restricted parking fall within the responsibility of both parking enforcement and the police. As with other after hours parking enforcement, the Police Department would not be able to readily enforce the district other than in the early morning hours, and only when appropriate staff was available. Also, the proposed district is subject to patrol only when staff is available and/or on a complaint basis during the daytime hours as well. The proximity to the current Alta Vista parking district could assist with enforcement during the daytime when enforcement staff are in the area, but this is unknown for after hours enforcement by the Police Department. FISCAL DAPACT Creation of the parking permit district would have some direct costs to the City. Sign and pole installation would cost approximately $1,500. Additional permits and materials and processing would cost approximately $500. Since there is no formal budget for creation of this particular parking district, if approved, the monies would have to come from the unappropriated parking fund balance. Conversely, there is a potential for producing parking fine revenues of approximately $5,00048,000 annually depending upon the level of enforcement and the number of citations issued. However, it should be noted that the priority for parking enforcement is the downtown area, and the more time spent in the residential district translates to lost revenue from unpaid parking meters and reduced parking citations, which could far outweigh the money generated from the parking district citations. ALTERNATIVES Given the strong support (89%) and the proximity of the proposed parking district to the Cal Poly campus, creating a residential permit area is the most effective means of meeting the wishes of the majority of residents living in the impacted area. Thus, staff would recommend moving forward with establishing the residential parking permit district to help improve the quality of life for the neighborhood. Alternatives to the staff recommendation could come in many forms e.g., no parking district; larger parking district; changes in hours or days of enforcement; etc. Staff feels each of the alternatives would not best meet the wishes of the neighborhood. Council Agenda Report--Residential permit district Page 3 Attachments Exhibit A—.Petition Summary Exhibit B-=Field Survey Results Exhibit C-Mail Survey Results&Map Exhibit D—Proposed Resolution to Establish District Council Reading Files: —Surveys for expended district -Petition from residents Montes , Heights Neighborhood As. ciation Street Parking - Area 1 In order to: • reduce ambient noise levels . lower air pollution levels • reduce street fitter • relieve the burden on persons residing in the area in gaining access to their homes • improve pedestrian and vehicular traffic safety • and to prevent erosion of the quality of life and subsequent decline of property values The undersigned request, pursuant to Section 10.36.170 et seq. of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code, that a preferential parking district be established. The boundaries to be as follows: Hays Street to Grand Avenue, Slack Street to Grand Avenue, Henderson Avenue from Slack Street to McCollum, Graves Avenue from Slack Street to McCollum. Slack Hays McCollum The key provisions of an ordinance to establish this district are to be: • Street parldng between 2 AM and 10 PM Monday through Friday by permit. • Unrestricted parking evenings (after 10 PM) and weekends. • Two permits per household to be issued by the City free of charge. Petition Summary: Total number of residences: 54 (Owner Occupied: 32) (Rental Properties: 22) Total number of signatures obtained: 48 Petition circulators: Cydney Holcomb 5448594 2076 Hays St. Carol Winger 543-8839 2041 Hays St. Exhibit A Petition Inventory- Hays Street Address Name Phone Response 2090 Thoma 543-3608 Yes 2085 Burt 543-8177 Yes 2084 Bishop 544-2817 Yes 2076 Holcomb 544-8594 Yes 2053 Arsenio 543-3508 Yes 2042 Rental No Reponse 2041 Winger . 543-8839 Yes 2011 Betts 544-1138 Yes 1991 Silva 546-9187 Yes 1990 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 1959 Hewes '544-3034 Yes 1958 Barrett 549-8342 Yes 1935 Bowls 543-2964 No Response 1924 Stirling 544-7822 Yes 1911 McIlwain no phone Yes 1891 Milligan 549-0580 Yes 1890 Hopps 541-6205 Yes 1845 Doolette 544-1845 Yes 1844 Scurria 541-3275 Yes 1841 Lamb 546-9254 Yes 1.843 Evans 543-5279 Yes 1834 Jacobson 541-3616 Yes 1824 Medina 783-2153 Yes Petition Inventory - Slack Street Address Name phone Response 2100 Stimson 544-9618 Yes 2099 Iversen 543-3799 Yes 2077 White 543-8801 No 2061 La Barbera 543-5188 Yes 2045 Gates unlisted No 1983 Elfrink 549-8560 Yes 1961 Maggetti 543-2089 No Response 1941 Steger 543-5826 Yes 1841 Thomas 783-1976 Yes �-S Petition'Inventory - Henderson Avenue Address Name Phone Response 100 Bishop 543-1319 Yes 144 Steuck 543-4259 Yes 145 Frena 549-9699 Yes . 159 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 161 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 166 Hammond 541-9104 Yes 190 Lowe . 543-7618 Yes 230 Swenerton 545-7805 Yes 241 Wiens 543-3603 Yes 246 Shevlin 543-5096 Yes 268 Delarm 543-1209 Yes Petition lnventory - Graves Avenue Address Name Phone Response 101 Haddon 549-0756 Yes 110 Slowik 546-0647 Yes 131Agens 541-3531 Yes 141 Lehtonen 541-2366 Yes 150 Haymaker 466-7684 Yes 160. kransdorf 543-5578 Yes 165 Falkenstern 543-6387 Yes 240 Rental 544-8472 No 249 . DeBrish 544-0803 Yes 276 Brown 543-2567 Yes MONTEREY HEIGHTS CARS PARKED COUNTS Petitioned Blocks Only h 04 Q h M h a b Q ooa' C Slack 1800 12 15 12 12 8 12 11 11 12 11 11 9 Slack 1900 13 12 13 9 4 15 10 13 10 8 11 3 Slack 2000 5 5 6 5 4 4 6 5 4 41 3 5 Hayes1800 23 15 21 18 16 24 24 21 18 23 21 20 Hayes 1900 12 11 11 7 6 13 14 9 8 14 3 7 Hayes 2000 3 4 6 6 5 7 7 3 6 8 7 9 Graves 100 21 18 20 19 12 21 15 20 15 19 20 13 Graves 200 N/A 17 11 10 8 13 11 10 8 15 8 8 Henderson 100 3 8 8 4 4 5 4 1 1 5 3 9 Henderson 200 N/A 2 2 2 0 3 4 5 4r 4 3 2 HEAVY 9-14+ MEDIUM 5-8 LIGHT 3-4 Exhibit B /'7 - MONTEREY HEIGHTS RESIDENTIAL PARE ING DISTRICT Total Sent 116 Total Received 52 Returned/Unanswered 6 Percentage returned 45% Have you been experiencing a parking problem:from non-residents parking on your block? Yes 19 No 27 Would you want your block to be included as part of the proposed parking.district? Yes 28 No 18 If included in the parking district; do you support the proposed peen k hours of 2am- lopm? Yes 29 No 13 4/28/97 EXHIBIT C ! O ,el --- SLACK ST w r m m= m . o , y Q 70 > ,00. L Q as ,al Q Z as NS µ 1 Q Is Ljj > O Jr� n- ` - m Q e i x°,i HAYS S T. - W 90 a 7 s ° z HAYS ST. Boa _ W g $ — L e ,ae m x7e za' = x30 I � :aa x,e I xae N N e N US m ° u Y 1 � e ^�� v��J n MCCOLLUM ST. a y e �� k N - BUENA _ MCCOLLUM ST. ,� Y 7,0 � ps ^.' �x , � 7„ ISIL N a 8 8 �$ W 75 ----J l yp Ky y Q 751 Z 71° 727 770 313 77 357 7e 9 ° a 377 r N c 79• W 770 al o_ s HOPE ST. Q 3 91 p`S� Ljja;$ > z HOP T Q QN - „, � ,° si � a Q a a, w = y y . 4" a sAN Z '° > e > _ e rA /n lL ° . - �J = 90 ►I �� R .. 49 z 416 ~o LOWS ST. e o o $' Z) d e p LOOMIS ST. m a ��e M `OpM15 �►�! !!!I IIIII �� I� ci�o� or san lui s oBi o RESOLUTION NO. (1997 Series) A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO ESTABLISHING THE MONTEREY HEIGHTS AREA OF THE CITY AS A RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT AREA AND ESTABLISHING DAYS AND HOURS OF OPERATION OF SAID AREA AND TIME OF RENEWAL FOR A PARKING PERMIT WHEREAS, the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo has received a petition from a majority of the residents living in the Monterey Heights Area as shown on Attachment 1 and; WHEREAS, the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo has determined that the quality of life for the residents of this area has been adversely affected by non-residents using the neighborhood streets for excessive parking and; WHEREAS, the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo has determined that the restriction of non-resident parked vehicles on the neighborhood streets will improve pedestrian and vehicular safety and allow residents to gain proper access to their residences and; WHEREAS, the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo has held a public hearing to consider the establishment of a residential parking permit district and has determined the parking permit district will improve the quality of life for the district residents. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows: SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 10.36.170 et seq. of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code the residential parking permit area is hereby established as shown on Attachment 1. SECTION 2. No vehicle other than vehicles providing services to the area or having a residential parking permit clearly displayed on the dashboard on the drivers side of the vehicle may park on any street within the district boundaries between the hours of 2am and lOpm, Mon-Friday. SECTION 3. The Public Works Director shall be directed to post the area with signs that clearly indicate these restrictions. SECTION 4. The Parking Division shall issue residential parking permits on demand as permitted in Section 10.36.220 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code. Parking permits shall be issued for a year effective September 15. Exhibit D i Resolution No. Page two On Motion of-- —--— , seconded by -- . and on the following roll call vote: AYES: NOES: .ABSENT: the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted t}ii"s ---,day of__- , 1997 Mayor Allen Settle — — - ATTEST: City Clerk - --- - - APPROVED AS:TO FORM: 44 h- eloc-"j My f Jo ensen - f MONTEREY HEIGHTS p PARKING DISTRICT O r e�OAI � S 167 �� -, IC wf - _ > - U e" " 7 C] < a > ICG •I '^ Q I I Z 66 16 L1J I z I \ ,o Y_ _zw 3 HAYS"o ST. "e 196 236 =n2 LJ 30 177 St o ' e S McCOLLUM ST. 8. _ �� e BUENA aa92 w JIC McCOLLUM ST. �, _ a ICJI a ,t• Jill ----�� s s ES > „ Jt0 x, Q pl )=6 J7w A x 3477 `i 76 e o 397 r o o LiJ J76 HOPE ST. - - > 33. y' 93 $°a I j _ Q HOP " T y6, z �_n Q - ♦II � a s. s, a ¢ � ,,, '6 3 .,' t� . V I 'o I 40'� 8 - tl 0 w - t3J v Q > w I > sq N rA L//1y� Q u V el � G t Z 74 Q _ e Tw A z LOOMISeST. =I� - LOOMIS ST. °� $ 3� m IS J I III�I��I II III city Of El District Boundaries Streets and Residences within �� e ®�� ® boundary have restricted parking ®vJa between 2 am and 10 pm Mon-Fri �L nn h man Petition Inventory- Hays Street Address 1Yame Phone Response 2090 Thoma 543-3608 Yes 2085 Burt 543-8177 Yes 2084 Bishop 544-2817 Yes 2076 Holcomb 544-8594 Yes 2053 Arsenio 543-3508 Yes 2042 Rental No Reponse 2041 Winger . 543-8839 Yes 2011 Betts 544-1138 Yes .1991 Silva 546-9187 Yes 1990 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 1959 Hewes 544-3034 Yes i958 Barrett 549-8342 Yes 1935 Bowls 543-2964 No Response 1924 Stirling 544-7822 Yes 1911 Mcllwain no phone Yes 1891 Milligan 549-0580 Yes 1890 Hopps 541-6205 Yes 1845 Doolette 544-1845 Yes .1844 Scurria 541-3275 Yes 1841 Lamb 546-9254 Yes 1843 Evans 543-5279 Yes 1834 Jacobson 541-3616 Yes 1824 Medina 783-2153 Yes Petition Inventory - lack Street Address Name phone Response 2100 Stimson 544-9618 Yes 2099 Iversen 543-3799 Yes 2077 White 543-8801 No 2061 La Barbera 543-5188 Yes 2045 Gates unlisted No 1983 Elfrink 549-8560 Yes 1961 Maggetti 543-2089 No Response 1941 Steger 543-5826 Yes 1841 Thomas 783-1976 Yes Petition Inventory - Henderson Avenue Address clams Phone Response 100 Bishop 543-1319 Yes 144 Steuck 543-4259 Yes 145 Frena 549-9699 Yes 159 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 161 Peaker 543-3060 Yes 166 Hammond 541-9104 Yes 190 Lowe . 543-7618 Yes 230 Swenerton 545-7805 Yes 241 Wiens 543-3603 Yes 246 Shevlin 543-5096 Yes 268 Delarm 543-1209 Yes Petition Inventory - Graves Avenue Address Name Phone Response 101 Haddon 549-0756 Yes 110 Slowik 546-0647 Yes 131 Agens 541-3531 Yes 141 Lehtonen 541-2366 Yes 150 Haymaker 466-7684 Yes 160. Kransdorf 543-5578 Yes 165 Falkenstern 543-6387 Yes 240 Rental 544-8472 No 249 . DeBrish 544-0803 Yes 276 Brown 543-2567 Yes MEETING AGENDA TE LLL ITEM # MONTEREY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC IL ❑ CDD DIR C o ❑ Fl IR OO ❑ ECHIEF April 28, 1997 �A�ORNEY PW DIR CLERK/ORIG ❑ POLICE CHF ❑ MGMt TEAM ❑ REC DIR Dear Mayor Settle: 13C FILE ❑ UTIL DIR r� � ❑ PERS DIR On May 6, 1997, the City Council will hear a request from the Monterey Heights Neighborhood Association to establish a residential parking district. The area involved is east of the Grand Avenue entrance to Cal Poly (Hays and Slack Streets to Grand Avenue, Henderson and Graves Avenues from Slack Street to McCollum Street). In the past few years these streets have become a free parking lot for students and staff of the university. Accessibility to homes and congestion, among other things, have become major concerns of permanent and temporary residents alike. In September,1996, we began circulating a petition to form the parking district. Over the next three months we personally visited each of the fifty four (54)residences in this area. Of these residences, thirty two (32) are owner occupied and twenty two (22) are rental properties. Eighteen (18) of the rentals are occupied by student tenants and four(4) are occupied by long-term renters. It was especially enlightening to hear the complaints from our students neighbors. Unavailability of parking, car damage and litter were some of the problems they mentioned. Their support in favor of the parking district was overwhelming - signatures were obtained from sixteen(16) of the eighteen(18) student residences. The four (4) remaining renters all signed the petition. Of the thirty two (32) owner occupied homes, signatures were obtained from twenty eight (28). The owners concerns were basically consistent with those of the students. Over the past several years we have all watched as more and more cars from the university infiltrate our neighborhood causing excessive noise, air pollution, litter on the streets, safety concerns for children and a paucity of parking for those of us who live here. This situation, of course, will only continue to get worse with the growing enrollment at Cal Poly and the ongoing reduction in parking spaces on the campus. On behalf of the 90% of our neighbors who have supported this petition, we urge you to approve the parking district as submitted. Sincerely yours, Cydney Holcomb Carol Winger 544-8594 543-8839 RECE I V F, APR i L Iy / Cm COUNCIL MEETING AUNUA DAT 5' - ITEM #.�.-.. Mr. & Mrs. Darwin Donati 1990 Hope St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 543-2255 May 1, 1997 Dear Mayor and City Council Members In regards to the proposed residential parking permit district in the Monterey Heights area, as residents in the Grand Avenue area, we agree with this proposal. However, restricting parking in some areas only moves the problem to other areas. Parking is already problem around Hope & Henderson Street, therefore, we would like to propose that the area under consideration be enlarged to include Henderson Street to Loomis Street and Hope Street to Grand Avenue. This would help eliminate the overflow parking from restricted streets. Sincerely, -M Mir GC r+ �NCIL OIN UIR — s; Q AO [3 CHIEF Darwin and lone DonateCr"�' RNEY PW DIR CLERKIORIG ❑ POUCE CHF ❑ MGMT TEAM ❑ REC DIR ❑ C �Q,L,E/ 13UTILDIR /Z� ❑ PERS DiR I%// PITY PnuNCIL