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r Annette Brecheisen ubject: Comment on Parking Strategy for March 8 Planning Commission meeting ttachments: 170306 Letter re Downtown Parking to Planning Commission.pdf;ATT00001.htm; 161012 Downtown Sales Tax 1994 to 2016 Charts and Data.pdf;ATT00002.htm; 150318 Report of the PDA Parking Committee V-VR2 Final.pdf;ATT00003.htm From: Karen Diaz Sent:Tuesday, April 18, 2017 7:38 AM To:Annette Brecheisen <abrecheisen @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Ellen Holmgren<eholmgren @cityofpleasantonca.gov> Subject: Fwd: Comment on Parking Strategy for March 8 Planning Commission meeting, M[ R951GaL MATERiAL Provided to the City Council Begin forwarded message: After Distribution of Packet From: "Peter MacDonald" < > Date 14' f g- /7 To: "Jerry Thorne" <jthorne @ci.pleasanton.ca.us>, "Arne Olson (AF55olson @gmail.com)" <AF55olson@gmail.com>, "Kathy Narum (jandknarum @att.net)" <jandknarum @att.net>, "Karla Brown (kbrown @ci.pleasanton.ca.us)" <kbrown @ci.pleasanton.ca.us>, "Jerry Pentin (ferry @pentin.com)" <jerry @pentin.com> Cc: "Nelson Fialho (nfialho @ci.pleasanton.ca.us)" <nfialho @ci.pleasanton.ca.us>, "Karen Diaz (kdiaz @ci.pleasanton.ca.us)" <kdiaz @ci.pleasanton.ca.us>, "Peter MacDonald" <> Subject:Comment on Parking Strategy for March 8 Planning Commission meeting Good evening Mayor Thorne and Members of the Council, I ask that you approve the Staff Recommendation and improve it with the addition of a new #1 Strategy as follows: 1. The City of Pleasanton commits to provide a substantial increase in public parking spaces within two blocks of most of Downtown Pleasanton. The Parking Strategy is the critical first piece to updating the Downtown Specific Plan. The proposed Parking Strategy has 8 strategies to micromanage the (inadequate) parking we now have downtown, and only two strategies that even "consider" providing more parking for downtown Pleasanton. The reason the City and the Downtown Specific Plan needs to include a City commitment to provide substantial public parking is that there will be no increased vitality until more buildings get built in downtown Pleasanton. Parking is the essential infrastructure to enable more buildings to get built.