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56-PR-82
RESOLUTION
Expressing A Willingness To Consider Establishing "A
Residents Only" Parking District(s) In Residential Neighborhoods
Around The Periphery Of The Central Business District
WHEREAS, The City Council is amending the Zoning Ordinance by
Ordinance 75-0-82 so as to reduce the off-street parking requirements in
several respects, including allowing the introduction of uses into the
Central Business District which are more intense generators of automobile
traffic and parking without requiring that additional off-street parking
be supplied to serve the new uses; and
WHEREAS, there now exists a substantial spillover of business
parking into the surrounding residential neighborhoods, especially by
• employees; and
WHEREAS, the proposed amendments to allow the creation of parking
lots in the surrounding residential neighborhoods to provide required
business parking would encourage business employees and customers to drive
into the surrounding residential districts to look for parking spaces; and
WHEREAS, the existing parking regulations in Section 6-7-2-8(B)3
require that new uses in the B3, B4, and B5 Business Districts must only
provide 60%, 50%, and 40%, respectively, of the parking spaces they are
projected to generate according to the basic parking requirements of the
Zoning Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the spillover parking into surrounding residential
• neighborhoods has been increasing as new uses are introduced which are not
required to supply parking sufficient to satisfy the parking demand they
generate; and
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MIEREAS, the proposed amendments may accelerate the formation
of a parking shortage in the Central Business District and the spillover
parking into residential neighborhoods;
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BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council recognizes that by relaxing
parking requirements in the Central Business District to encourage the
1. business climate, a potential negative impact exists for the nearby R1
residential areas.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council would be willing
to consider a Residents Only Parking District to solve this problem,
should the residential area meet the established criteria for such
districts.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ADOPTED: January 10, 1983,
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