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So where people come from becomes less of an issue on those days because they're likely spending some time in our downtown and over at the fairgrounds, whether it's a car show, a fair or anything else going on over there. So, this information is really kind of a normal situation averaged over the course of the year. It's not meant to be a point in time even. Commissioner Brown: Okay. Beaudin: Main Street is operating at greater than functional capacity so we have strategies to encourage long -term customers and employees to find alternative locations and we're looking primarily at the periphery. Some areas we know we can restripe on street to get additional spaces. We're looking for ways to use red curbs appropriately. We have pretty generous parallel parking compared to other downtowns. We have that four -foot buffer, so to maximize parking we could reduce that but we think that it's functioning now, there is an opportunity for additional supply within the existing areas. Commissioner Brown: So quick clarification, I was pleased to see they picked up on that because sometimes some of the parking spaces are a little too generous. You get some spaces back from that, but you also said that in some cases that there's some difficulty getting out of spaces because they're too tight. Is the amount where it's too tight far less than the gain you get by putting everything to more of a standard? Beaudin: So I don't think we have any spaces that are under -sized in downtown currently and if they are, they may be close to an intersection or something like that. can think of Spring Street and places like that where it's quite narrow. Commissioner Brown: On page 9 of the Strategy and Implementation Plan it said "Typically the preferred length of on- street parking stalls is 20 to 22 feet. This provides adequate maneuvering space for drivers of all skill levels to safely park. Field measurements indicate some marked stalls are less than the 20 -foot recommended minimum length for parallel parking spaces, and during field observations, vehicles attempting to navigate into the smaller length stall took longer to complete the parking maneuver, blocking traffic for longer periods of time." I was just kind of curious ... Beaudin: So Pamela is telling me that she's had this conversation with Mike Tassano and that there are very few of those spaces, and those would be the areas we would look to adjust. The parallel parking option gives us the ability to make use of the street a little bit better so we want people to get in and out as efficiently as possible. So if we see those, we'll get them fixed as part of this effort. They will be low hanging fruit for us. Okay, so increasing supply is expensive, I'm going to talk a little bit more about that. I just wanted to also say we're looking at implementing parking demand solutions that will create a better experience for folks downtown and we'll talk a little bit more on the strategies. We have three buckets of action items and we've assigned responsibility in three areas. So we have City strategies that will focus on the public right -of -way, public lots, the wayfinding signs we talked about, increasing bike parking, increasing supply within the existing transportation corridor (the City spent $7 million purchasing that property), the employer strategy of getting employees to use parking lots, employee PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 24 of 39