REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: March 27, 2019 Report No. EPW-19-011
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Jeff Miller, Director of Engineering and Public Works
SUBJECT:
Title
Limited Time Parking Restrictions at Three Township Owned Parking LotsEnd
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council approve implementation of Limited Time Parking Restrictions as per Traffic Order 1299, Traffic Order 1300 and Traffic Order 1301 as set out in Staff Report EPW-19-011.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Streets and Traffic Regulation Bylaw, 2017, No. 2898
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Healthy and Livable Community - Ensure Multi-modal Traffic Strategies
BACKGROUND:
The Township owns and operates three parking lots within close proximity of the Municipal Hall and the Recreation Centre. These lots are:
• Lot 1 - 1237/1239 & 1241/1243 Esquimalt Road (temporary gravel surfaced lot)
• Lot 2 - 1200 Esquimalt Road (asphalt surfaced lot, Memorial Park)
• Lot 3 - 527 Fraser Street (asphalt surfaced lot, Recreation Centre)
The purpose of these parking lots is to provide short-term parking for residents or visitors that are utilizing services at the Municipal Hall, Recreation Centre, Memorial Park and/or conducting business in the Town Centre. This parking is generally short term in duration (one to four hours for a one time use).
Over the past several years, these lots have been misused. This misuse includes: park and rides, parking for construction workers, and overnight parking. When the parking lots fill up by those individuals who are using these lots not as they were intended, then these lots cannot be accessed and utilized by residents or visitors for activities within the Town Centre.
ISSUES:
1. Rationale for Selected Option
The utilization of Lots 1, 2 and 3 for long-term parking and construction parking reduces their capacity for use by visitors to municipal facilities and downtown core businesses that these lots were intended to support. Imposing a limited time parking restriction on the lots will be an incentive to users to utilize these parking lots for the original intent and consider alternate forms of transportation. The parking lot located to the south of Archie Browning Recreation Centre will not have a limited time parking restriction imposed on it.
Staff’s recommendation is that the following time restrictions be imposed on these lots:
• Lot 1 - Maximum three hours parking at any one time between the hours of 7 am and 5 pm, Traffic Order 1299
• Lot 2 - Maximum three hours parking at any one time between the hours of 7 am and 5 pm, Traffic Order 1300
• Lot 3 - Maximum four hours parking at any one time between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm, Traffic Order 1301
See Attachments 1, 2 and 3 for the proposed Traffic Orders.
2. Organizational Implications
The proposed Traffic Orders would be prepared by Engineering and signed by the Corporate Officer and the Director of Engineering and Public Works. Public Works would then install the parking restriction signage at the parking lots. The Traffic Orders would be added to the Community Safety Services Department (Bylaw) patrol routes for enforcement. These activities would not impose any organizational implications.
3. Financial Implications
The Traffic Orders implementation and enforcement can be accommodated within the current operational budgets for the various departments that will be involved in the issuing of the Traffic Orders.
4. Sustainability & Environmental Implications
There are no sustainability or environmental implications.
5. Communication & Engagement
Once approved, a notification of the Traffic Orders would be posted on the Township’s website and other social media forums. After the signage has been installed, a graduated approach to enforcement will occur including the use of warning tickets and personal contact, where appropriate, in order to educate users as to the new restrictions, prior to ticketing occurring.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. That Council approve the implementation of Limited Time Parking Restrictions as per Traffic Order 1299, Traffic Order 1300, and Traffic Order 1301, as set out in Staff Report EPW-19-011.
2. That Council does not approve the implementation of Limited Time Parking Restrictions as per Traffic Order 1299, Traffic Order 1300, and Traffic Order 1301, as set out in Staff Report EPW-19-011.