City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: JUNE 7, 2017
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Public Hearing and Consideration of a Policy for Issuing Residential Parking Permits for New Development.
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ISSUE: Public hearing and consideration of a policy (Attachment 1) for issuing residential parking permits for new development.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council approve the proposed policy to use for future development cases that come before the Planning Commission and City Council.
BACKGROUND: As new developments have been proposed within existing neighborhoods, concerns about impacts to parking are often raised from the existing residents. Although new developments are required to provide adequate off-street parking, many residents are concerned that the overall size or type of building will lead to spillover parking onto the public streets. Since many of these residents depend on the public streets as their only source of parking, additional demand for on-street parking could directly impact them. To address this concern, from 2000 to 2008, twenty developments approved through the DSP/DSUP process included a condition that prohibited residents from obtaining residential parking permits that would allow them to park on street.
After several of these developments were constructed and sold or leased to the new residents, staff began to receive complaints from those residents about lack of access to the public street in front of their homes. Many felt that they were being unfairly denied equal access to the public street and since the decision had been made at the time of the development approval, they had little recourse for changing this condition. Partially in response to some of these concerns, starting in 2008, new development approved did not include this condition. Fro...
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