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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.min.09192007 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 19. 2007 Tim Ware, Parking Director said the existing meters were to last ten years and they have lasted 13 years. The new meters will be powered by solar. We will also implement a new fee structure. $11. per day $2. for the first hour $2. for the second hour $3. for the third hour $4. for the fourth hour We are also proposing a new ordinance to expand the paid parking area three blocks. There are 300 to 350 cars moving around daily to beat the system and not pay. Car pool will now exist of two people year round instead of three people to a car. In addition we have the emergency rid home program. The voters denied the sales tax in 2006 for the parking garage. Funding ends in the year 20 I 0 for the garage so something has to be done. Don said people are saying that they have to have their cars. Where does the money go and how much does it make. Tim said it makes $300,000 a year and most of that is to run the garage. Don asked about a parking garage. Tim said parking garages are not cost effective. Between lOam and 1:00 p.rn. the garage is full. Garages are money pits. Don asked about tourist parking. Tim said the time tourists park will expand. A map was handed out explaining the areas. Shae recommended stickers be on the meters so individuals are aware of the paid parking times. Tim said the new meters have an identification system and are user friendly. The software is set up so that meters don't accept money on Sunday or Holidays. The meters have been used in Toronto, 3,000 of them so they know what they are doing. We will have live credit card transactions in the future. The first wave will be installed the last week of October. 1 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 19. 2007 Shae said she feels people will continue to park and we will be bringing in more cars. Tim said we can't bring in anymore cars. Shae asked about construction workers. Tim said there will be no construction permits handed out. You can buy a very small amount of spaces. No more construction permits you will have to car pool or ride the bus. Time said we will need 2 more employees for enforcement at the peripheral areas. 130 parking meters will be installed ifthis goes through. Tim said the brush creek lot is free. Shae said Mothers from Burlingame that have two kids at different schools need their car. Tim suggested they get a car pool with two adults. The city shouldn't have to subsidize individuals parking. Tim said the number one problem is people have a love affair with their car. There are too many cars out there. We are trying to get cars off the road. Dwayen Romero, councilperson said we are making a larger effort to address the traffic and congestion. Dwayne pointed out that the funding mechanism that funds our parking garage expires in 2010. .25% of our sales tax special revenue fund runs the parking garage and street funding. The fees don't offset the expense of running the operation of the garage and parking. Parking is a private good now and if we make it an enterprise fund it has to cover its own way. One way is to expand the footprint and increase the rate. You do those two movements so that it becomes an enterprise fund. Dwayne said another piece will be on the ballot in November, a .15 sales tax and a 2.1 use tax to fund existing transit services. Our fees fail to cover the cost in 2010. Bill said his concern is to get people to respond to help ads in the paper. Bill asked about expanding paid parking into the evening. Tim said we can do a trial run in the summer. Shae said we need disincentive programs for employee housing. Burlingame has a huge amount on homeowners that go to transit. Tim said cabs are available to transport homeowners at Burlingame. 2 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 19. 2007 Shae said the #1 CARBON pollutants are cold start vehicles. Shae also pointed out that 94 % of carbon comes in the first five miles. It takes 20 minutes to warm up a car. Don asked why does RFTA always have no money. Time explained that it costs an enormous amount to run the system. Hybrid buses cost twice s much as a regular bus. Shae suggested creating some kind of incentive for people to use the bus. Maybe they get a free pass or something. Shae said there is a lack of communication in every single city department. Nobody in the community knows what is going on. Dwayne said CCLC needs to update their mission. Having two worksessions a year to start give the board and council the opportunity to give an update on good news stories and bad news stories during the course of the year. We need an open dialogue. Bill brought up the previous budget of $40,000. Dwayne said if the board gives a good organized well supported argument with goals, objectives, costs etc. there would be support by other council members. Dwayne also said good background information has to be presented in order to get funding. Dwayne suggested the CCLC be at the Hotel Jerome Friday for the key pad discussion and also be at the commercial core mix meeting Sept. 25th. CCLC should be involved in that discussion as a board. Bill felt that Frick and Bier come back and touch base one more time. Dwayne said the moratorium expires Dee I th on the commercial core mix. Mark said he feels council needs to hear other views on the commercial mix, . . . zOlllng IS an Issue. Shae said the board needs to have access to money in order to accomplish things. Dwayne reiterated that the board needs a platform for dialogue on the funding. Bill said we could reintroduce the BID idea if we had budget funding. 3 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 19. 2007 Dwayen said you need to go back and tell the story again regarding the BID. Able has lost its legs also. Mark agreed because they are volunteers and it is difficult to knock on doors. Meeting adjourned at II :00 a.rn. ~~%~i~/ 0/11Q;J{ Kathleen J. Strickland, Chief Deputy Clerk ;;7 4