City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: DECEMBER 4, 2019
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Introduction and First Reading. Consideration. Passage of an Ordinance to amend Sections 5-8-71 to 5-8-84: Permit Parking Districts.
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ISSUE: Should Council modify the Residential Permit Parking (RPP) regulations to: (1) standardize posted parking restrictions, (2) create a process allowing proactive creation of new RPP districts near transit or in areas with documented parking issues and (3) make administrative updates?
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council consider the proposed ordinance on first reading and set it for public hearing and final passage on December 14, 2019.
BACKGROUND: Residential Permit Parking (RPP) districts are outlined in the City Code in Title 5 (Transportation and Environmental Services), Chapter 8 (Parking and Traffic Regulations), and Article F (Permit Parking Districts). Since its creation in the late 1970s, there have been nearly 30 updates to this section of the City Code to address changes, but this process has been the first to comprehensively consider the entire section. The objectives of this update to the residential permit parking program, the "RPP Refresh Project," were:
1. to better address current residential parking issues,
2. to improve the City's ability to proactively manage parking, and
3. to be easy to understand, enforce, and administer.
Between October 2018 and May 2019, staff met with a subcommittee of the Traffic and Parking Board (T&PB) and the community at six meetings that were open to the public to identify and issues and discuss opportunities to update the RPP program. Two questionnaires (Attachments 3 and 4) were issued in December 2018 and April 2019 to gather input on RPP topics and issues that were most important to the community and potential solutions for improving the program.
Based on the fe...
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