HomeMy WebLinkAbout21- RPPD What We HeardFinding a Spot: RPPD – 1/25 – “What we heard” Summary
Community Values & Guiding Principles
- General alignment with values and guiding principles
- Safety was expressed as a value and should be added as a guiding principle
- Sustainability and climate goals supported, perceived by some as justification for not unlocking
available parking in residential areas to commuters
- High value expressed for active transportation, walkability
o “Love neighborhood walkability and proximity to so many great parts of town: campus,
College Ave, businesses, midtown, and downtown.”
- Fiscal responsibility supported by residents through the use of citation revenue to cover costs of
district enforcement
- Support for data-driven decisions and data and decision making transparency
o “Data-driven decisions are good, but I would like to know more about where that data
might be coming from and how the data is guiding the decisions”
What’s working:
- Parking is available in front of or near resident’s homes
- District has resulted in less traffic, circulation, congestion in neighborhoods
What’s not working
- Budget transparency and financial structure of program
- Data availability and transparency
- Consistency of enforcement
- Difficulty with visitor permit system & technology
- Suspicion about City’s motives (making money vs fiscal sustainability)
- Lack of trust in staff, Parking Commission
- Lack of collaboration with MSU Parking Services
What are we not asking? Other themes noted
- Is there/should there be a hierarchy of Values/Guiding Principles? Climate vs Community vs
Equity etc.
- Underutilized parking supply should be made available either through the dissolution of the
district or the sale of commuter permits
- The program pushes the problem (high non-resident parking demand) right outside of the
boundaries resulting in neighborhood requests to expand the district onto their streets
- Management of "high users" (e.g., apartments/sororities/fraternities) that place lots of vehicles
on the streets at a proportion that is not consistent with the residential norm in the district
- Issues around game day/MSU events
- How to get more people to buy permits?