HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2022-211RESOLUTION NO. 2022-211
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA APPROVING THE DOWNTOWN PARKING
MANAGEMENT PLAN REPORT DATED AUGUST 2022
WHEREAS, the City of Chula Vista established the Downtown Parking District (the
“Parking District”) in 1963 and expanded the Parking District boundaries in 2009; and
WHEREAS, the Parking District encompasses an approximately 120-acre area bounded
by E Street to the north, Del Mar Avenue to the east, H Street to the south, and Garrett Avenue to
the west; and
WHEREAS, Third Avenue, a major commercial thoroughfare, runs through the center of
the Parking District and provides various streetscape amenities that facilitate pedestrian circulation
and access to fronting businesses, which include bars, restaurants, offices, commercial shops, and
others; and
WHEREAS, there are 1,528 public parking spaces in the Parking District, consisting of on-
street spaces, spaces in surface parking lots, and spaces in the Park Plaza Parking Structure; and
WHEREAS, public parking facilities within the Parking District are managed by City
personnel with the support of a parking management contractor; and
WHEREAS, the City retained a consultant in August 2018 to prepare a Downtown Parking
Management Plan (the “Downtown PMP”) report, which included parking data collection, public
outreach, analysis of management practices, projection of future parking demand, and
development of recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the Downtown PMP report documents the analysis described in the preceding
recital and makes 14 recommendations to optimize management of the Parking District; and
WHEREAS, Staff will implement the following recommendations from the Downtown
PMP as a result of this action:
1. Recommendation Number 1: Convert all Parking District meters to Smart Meters.
Authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to enter into an agreement for the
purchase or lease of Smart Meters.
2. Recommendation Number 9: Modify Parking Restrictions at Norman Park Senior
Center Parking Lot by removing the existing meters and increasing the time limit
to 4 hours.
3. Recommendation Number 11: Expansion of the Parking District Boundary to
include all existing parking meters. There are approximately 21 existing parking
meters located north of E Street on Garrett Avenue and Landis Avenue that will be
added to the Parking District.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
that it hereby approves the Downtown Parking Management Plan report, dated August 2022.
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Resolution No. 2022-211
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Presented by Approved as to form by
Laura Black, AICP Glen R. Googins
Interim Director of Development Services City Attorney
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 27th day of September 2022 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Cardenas, Galvez, McCann, and Padilla
NAYS: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: Casillas Salas
Mary Casillas Salas, Mayor
ATTEST:
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Kerry K. Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2022-211 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a regular
meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 27th day of September 2022.
Executed this 27th day of September 2022.
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
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