This M&C provides for the creation of a Residential Parking Permit Program to manage the impact of spill over on-street parking generated by nonresidential parking generators that are adjacent to residential areas. The Residential Parking Permit Program creates a manageable environment where by on-street parking spaces can be effectively available for parking by abutting residential users without competition from adjacent nonresidential commercial parking generators. At the December 5, 2017 City Council Work Session, staff briefed City Council on the specifics of the recommended ordinance and the comments that have been received from residential users in the existing three geographic areas where Residential Parking Permit Programs exist.
Currently, Bluebonnet Hills and North Hi Mount Neighborhood Associations have neighborhood administered programs. The City of Fort Worth administered a pilot program in the Arlington Heights Neighborhood from January – March 2017. This pilot received positive feedback from the neighborhood on the benefits of the program. Transportation & Public Works staff met with all three of the above mentioned neighborhood associations to discuss the proposed program as in the attached ordinance and obtain feedback. The areas included in the ordinance are neighborhoods adjacent to major land uses that generate spillover parking and the level of spillover parking was determined by parking utilization studies. The major land uses include Will Rogers Memorial Center/Dickies Arena, Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Science Center. The Stockyards and Magnolia Village areas are major land uses included in the ordinance but further parking utilization studies need to be conducted prior to inclusion into the program. A map will be maintained by the Transportation and Public Works Department of the specific street segments included in each Residential Parking Permit area. The program will be administered via contract with online and in person options for purchasing permits. A resident may receive purchase up to a maximum of three permits. The permit fee is $25.00 per permit and that fee The first permit includes up to two vendor permits per resident. Also included in the permit fee are temporary parking permits that are valid for a period not to exceed twenty-four hours. In the event an existing Program area would desire expansion of a Program to other street segments, the neighborhood association or abutting property owners along the new street segments, would be required to pay for additional No Parking signage as these areas become effective. This M&C does not request approval of a contract with a business entity. This applies to COUNCIL DISTRICTS 2, 3, 7 and 9. |
