Recommendation to request City Manager to review issues associated with parking impacts to neighborhoods adjoining the Deukmejian Courthouse, including but not limited to the areas bordered by Broadway to the South, 4th Street to the North, Cedar Avenue to the East and Golden Avenue to the West. Solution to consider include preferential parking districts, additional street parking meters, off-site parking options and additional enforcement. Return to Council with a report within 60 days.
Excuse me, sir, you know, you've already been to the diocese. You can't come back and so on. Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. So. All right. So, city manager, we've already voted on this. Okay, fine. So we'll go to the next item. I want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. We appreciate your. Passionate consideration. Thank you again. 13 1337. Next item, please. Item seven. Communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Vice Mayor Lowenthal and Councilman Austin. Recommendation to request the city manager to review issues associated with parking impacts to neighborhoods adjoining the Deukmejian courthouse and returned to council with a report within 60 days. Any public comment on the item? Mr. Shelton. Right down. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Pro tem. I don't know. Are you vice mayor yet? And rest of the city council and staff. My name is Gary Shelton. I live a couple of blocks a year. Chestnut and third in this proposed district. I hope I'm talking on item seven anyway. Last couple of times I've talked on other items and what I meant to you know, what I'm what I'm really hoping is that this is such a unique neighborhood where this parking preferred parking district is is proposed a study for it that I hope we don't have anything of of a boulder type that would maybe apply to other parts of town that don't have high rises with two or 300 people in a quarter of a block that don't have schools with with very little or no parking, that don't have huge public facilities, that employ thousands of people, that and draw other thousands of people on a daily basis into the neighborhood who are unused to it. Folks who are coming to court, having to be there at 830 in the morning. They don't even know that. We have one way streets downtown. They're driving around looking for parking. And it's not necessarily that they don't find parking right now. I'm not sure if we're short parking or if it's just hard to get to or if it's underused or just what it is. But I'm hoping that we have an actual study of the conditions that are on the ground here in this area brought back to you folks. So you have an opportunity to look at what are your options are in fact, parking meters an option? I'm not sure they are because people come to court, for example, and they're going to be there for more than 2 hours, either from 830 in the morning till 1130. And then they don't know what's going to happen the rest of the day. And smart meters, I believe you can't feed and we'll probably have smart meters. I wanted to also mention that there are you know, when it comes to housing and it comes to parking, they're clutch together. They always have been. We always look at the amount of parking versus the amount of housing that we have and there's a need and a demand there. And part of housing includes special needs families. And if you've ever studied or ever read the city's housing element, you'll understand that we pay special attention to the special needs families , which include families which are made up of seniors, large families, female heads of household, disabled members of families and others. These folks all will have special needs. And in this parking impacted neighborhood of mainly lower income and very low income and extremely low income people, you will find those families in abundance. They need to be looked at. And finally, I would I would wonder if the county can't be inclined to come up and step up to its responsibility to provide the parking that its own courthouse is creating a need for. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shelton. I see item eight and nine has been withdrawn. Oh, I would like to speak, if I may. Thank you, Gary, for being here. I know you've been very patient with us. And so the reason for me bringing this item forward was merely because, of course, so many downtown residents have been impacted by parking. And so I wanted to make sure that we were super focused on a specific area that I get many calls about, which is the area around the courthouse, the Westgate Gateway neighborhood, as Gary has mentioned. And it also this item also will bring context to the courthouse and what exactly it means, because the courthouse in, you know , when in its inception is supposed to bring over 55,000 individuals to the area, every day I pass by there, there is an influx of people just looking for parking. You can even sometimes get a Starbucks because there's, you know, everybody's parking parked up and there's nowhere to park. And I feel for these residents in there and the impact that they're feeling every single day. I lived there myself for a few years as well, but hopefully I know I've talked to Craig Beck many times and I know he's truly invested in parking. He's worked on parking before, and I know that will come up with some good solutions, whether those are smart meters in some cases, whether they are opportunities for parking district, if that's an opportunity. And also looking at ways to alleviate some some impact for residents, of course, that's the whole motive for this item. So I want to thank the residents, want to thank I see Craig Cogen as well, who I know is invested in this issue. Also, I've talked to him many times about this, so thank you very much for being here as well, Craig. And then also to the other Craig Public Works. I don't know if you wanted to share any information as of now. Craig back. If not, we. I know we have 60 days to do that. Yeah, Councilman, I just. I would. Echo your. Comments, and we support your effort here. We'll go through and do our analysis and provide a report on some options. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Thank you. Comfortable in price. I have no comments. Thank you. No. Councilwoman Munger. Just as a comment to Gary, the courthouse was transferred to the state and so it would be more of. A state discussion now than a county discussion. But if you want to. Link up with our state representatives, many of us do capital on a corner where those state representatives are present and available. Thank you. Please cast your vote. I mean. Yes. Motion carries by 1989 has been withdrawn, will go to item 11.