Recommendation to request City Manager to begin implementation on priority areas identified in the Downtown Parking Study and report on the progress of those initiatives.
Item 11, please. You write that. We did item 11, item ten Communication from Council Member Pearce Recommendation to request city manager to begin implementation on priority areas identified in the downtown parking study and report on the progress of those initiatives. Thank you. Good. Okay. This is an item that we've worked on with staff, with Tom Modica and the team. And so I look forward to having you guys bring these back. My my priority out of all of these would be the parking impacted areas. Looking at the parking zone. I know my brain is not working. Maybe it is late, huh? Give me 1/2. I just been district. Yes, thank you. The parking assessment district. How soon do you think we could initiate that? Ask Linda Tatum to talk to that. Thank you. Councilwoman Pierce, we can get started on some of the preliminary research for that. But ultimately, in order to create a parking assessment district, we'd have to do some some studies to see how exactly what the fees could be to charge the property. So I'm going to say that would take several months to do that. But on some of the other items, and I understand that that's your priority, but some of the other items on that list that was in the staff report. We can certainly get started on some of those a lot quicker and come back sooner and concurrently. While we're taking a look at the the process and the potential fees for the property owners to create the parking and the process to create that parking assessment district. Okay. And the good news here, Councilmember, is there is some funding associated with this so that this is not one that's looking for new funds. $175,000. That does come as part of the successor agency. So as the properties are getting sold, that money goes to that account as per the settlement. So we'll be tapping into that as those funds become available. Great. The other one that I think would have a huge impact that seems like low hanging fruit that I'm curious on. The timeline is the private parking. I know that we've talked about different ways of doing this. And, you know, if you take the lot that's at fourth and cherry and it's got the one meter and people can pay to park there. I know that we have a list in my office of businesses that are willing to open up their lots. We just need a streamline process to do that. What's the timeline? You think we could have a city policy on on how to do that. On that process? We are coordinating with economic development. They've actually started that effort as well in terms of talking to some of the private property owners in the process to get those lots open up through those private property owners for for public parking. When they are, say, closed for the night. Those are some of the things that are currently in process. And I'd say the timeline would probably be within 60 days. 60 days. I love it, really. I just want to thank staff for their hard work. I know that this has been a long process and I know that we worked over a couple of months to get this. And so I really I know I pushed really hard to get it and then I didn't agenda it right away . So again, I think you there's this one area that I really appreciated your efforts on. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Gonzales. Thank you so much. And I was forgotten on this item, just so you know. I'm just kidding. That's okay. As the other half of downtown, I just really want to thank Councilmember Pearce for bringing this forward as a supplement to the the study that we had already done. I know there's a lot of areas and gaps that we still need to fulfill and see where there's room to to succeed in parking. So thanks so much for bringing it forward. And thank you, Linda. Thank you. Public comment on this item, saying now there's a motion and a second, please cast your votes.