City of Richmond Fan District Residential Parking May 21, 2012

 Boundaries include: Lombardy Place/W. Franklin St. (north) Floyd Ave./Main St. (south) N. Meadows St. (west) N. Harrison St./S. Morris St. (east)  Approximately 100 block faces and approximately 1,680 curb side spaces  Approximately 1,790 permits in two zones  Park without a permit for one (1) hour on Mon-Fri from 7am-9pm  Parking permit require for parking more than an hour Exisiting Conditions

 Permit Fee - $ expires June 30th and are not pro-rated.  Courtesy Parking Pass - $10 each – Expires 10 days from date of issuance and may only be purchased by someone owning a valid Fan District parking decal.  Annual visitor’s pass - $35.00 each – limited to two per house or building address and it must be purchased at the same time as the Fan District Decal. It is non-replaceable and must be resident property owners and must have an annual permit.  Replacement of Fan District Parking Decal - A decal purchased for a vehicle that was sold or otherwise disposed of by the owner may be purchased for $1, Permit Fee Structure

 Current Parking Zones (on size fits all)  VCU parking deck underutilized  Parking enforcement not enough during night time hours  Commercial parking demand encroaching on district  Increased parking enforcement impacts homeowners  Student “car shuffling”  Zoning compliance-multiple permits  No parking enforcement on weekends  Parking enforcement consistency What is working? What is not?  Current Parking Zones  Parking Enforcement  Increase fines  Booting program  Enforcement hours  Issuance of citations for “street cleaning”

Proposed Recommendations  Increase parking inventory by regulating parking where allowed by code  Implement an “electronic permit” system that can be enforced by License Plate Recognition (LPR)  Eliminate the one (1) hour FREE parking in Zone 1 between the hours of 4pm and 11pm  Consistent signage and way-finding program that is easy to understand  Regulate the commercial area of the district (West Franklin St.) with paid parking

Proposed Recommendations  Increase hours of operations in the commercial zone form 6pm-10pm to improve turnover (support the elimination of the 1-hr of free parking between 4pm- 11pm)  Create a 2-hour parking zone along the park (Hanover Ave) to accommodate commercial demand.  Adopt flexible approach to parking management of the parking zones in order to handle parking demand and parking inventory

Proposed Recommendations  Zone 1 – Boundaries: Vine St. to the west, Harrison St. on the east, Park/Franklin north and Main to the South. Residential  Permit parking only between 4pm-11pm (1-hr of free parking eliminated during these times only).  Zone 2 – Boundaries: Vine to the east, Rowland to the west, Park/Lombardy PL to the north and Floyd to the south.  Residential Permit parking restriction remains as is, with a 1-hour parking permit only zone

Proposed Recommendations  Develop weekend policies that support the parking demand for the district  Regulate and implement as two (2) hour parking of approximately 260 parking spaces in the VCU area leading to the RPP zone – 195 (south), Park Ave. (north), Belvedere (east) and Harrison (west)

Fan District Proposed Map

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