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Downtown Parking Management Plan <br />23 <br /> <br />F. Employee Parking Solutions <br />Downtown stakeholders have indicated that there is not a good parking solution for part-time shift <br />employees in the study area. Because of this, employees take up high demand parking in Washington Plaza, <br />moving their vehicles or rubbing chalk every two hours to avoid enforcement or park in nearby residential <br />neighborhoods. This reduces available parking for patrons to the Plaza, and residential areas and results in <br />lower productivity for the shift employees. Although the recommended reduction in the cost for daily <br />parking on the top deck of the Estudillo Garage is expected to improve this situation, the following options <br />for employee parking may also be considered. <br />Option 1: Part-time Discounted Employee Parking (PDEP) <br /> A permit program that allows free or low cost parking in the Estudillo garage for part-time or low <br />income employees <br /> Based on income, requires pay-stub and application for permit <br /> Discount/Rate: <br /> As an example - Sacramento provides a 2/3rd discount from full hourly rate of $3.00. <br />o Potential Discounts for qualified PT/LI employees: <br />o $1/day or $0.10/hour for qualified part-time parkers; or <br />o Free - similar to validation <br /> To ensure this approach is successful the City should adopt the proposed downtown parking <br />regulations shown on Figure 2 in addition to regular enforcement on-street, in plaza and in nearby <br />residential areas. Otherwise employees will not be motivated to adjust their current habits. <br />Option 2: Employee Parking Validation – via codes <br /> Validation Codes would be generated daily by parking management software <br /> Employer members login or receive daily email with set # of codes for their employees <br /> Employees would enter codes in garage kiosk or pay by phone app/text along with license plate and <br />can park for unlimited hours (assume a shift is 4-6 hours?) <br />o App/text would be necessary if they didn’t get code until at place of work. <br /> The cost would be covered by employers and free to employees <br />Option 3: Employee Parking Validation – via tokens <br /> This approach is probably the most inconvenient for workflow of employee/employer time and also <br />subject to “leakage/loss” <br /> This only works in a pay in advance model, so the employee would need tokens in advance of shift – or <br />would have to run out and run back to get them <br /> Depending upon how the tokens are set – up the time periods can be for a pre-determined period of <br />time. <br /> The City’s current kiosk technology will need to be upgraded per recommendation H.3 <br /> <br /> <br />3 Since the City is in process of interviewing replacement vendors, it is very likely that City can require that operator/integrator must work with <br />or upgrade existing equipment. <br />621