Carmel-by-the-Sea Parking ChallengesNovember 5, 2024 - Regular City Council - Topic and first Ordinance ReadingHERE is the Staff Report for this "Daylighting - AB413" proposal for Council Approval that will remove 40 parking spaced downtown to comply with this legislation by January 2025. October 1, 2024 - Regular City Council - Topic Report HERE is the staff report provided in advance of this meeting. Recommendations match the highlights provided below. August 28 2024 - Traffic Committee in City Hall - Topic includes update on AB413 HERE is Carmel Pine Cone - August 30 2024 - page 3, see article "Police Chief Reveals Plan for Dealing with "Daylighting Law"" summarizing the results of this August 28th meeting.
July 26 2024 - Carmel Pine Cone - page 9 HERE is the PDF of this issue. See page 9 article "Monterey busy on ‘Daylighting Bill’" covers the City of Monterey and their removal of intersection parking spaces per this AB 413 legislation requirements. This also mentions pending status of Carmel-by-the-Sea with focus on minimizing impact. May 29 2024 - Traffic Committee in City Hall - Topic includes update on AB413 HERE is the PDF of the slides presented. More to come in the coming months as an updated report to Planning Commission and City Council. HERE is the Youtube of this breif meeting. HERE is the advanced staff report noting Chief Paul Tomasi will cover this legislation and potential impacts to our Vllage. May 2 2024 - Cover article in the Carmel Pine Cone "Carmel seeks changes to law removing parking spaces" HERE is this cover page article. This updates work underway in Pacific Grove tied to AB413 and that our Carmel City Administrator is pursuing legislative revisions that could exclude cities with smaller populations. Effective January 2024 - AB413 State-wide requires - no parking within 20 ft of crosswalk-intersections This official State of California bill specifics are available HERE Next will be a City Council Meeting requesting Council directions - date to be announced. Paid Parking, once again, has made the City Council priority List in our Village. As of this writing, this project will include significant community input and new technologies in the possibilities. Please see the Survey results provided from the Carmel Chamber here and the CRA Survey here, page 2 on this topic (An expanded list of online articles from the past efforts are at the base of this webpage.) Aug 30 - Covered very briefly at the Strategic Priorities half yearly review. View this YouTube at time stamp 4:04 minute. This was not discussed at any length - as it was postponed to a future (TBD) City Council Meeting. Chip recognized the Survey results provided from the Carmel Chamber here and the CRA Survey here, page 2 on this topic. Public Meetings held in Early May - in Carpenter Hall, hosted by City Staff and Consultant Brian Uhler Monday May 1 and, Wednesday May 3 and, Tuesday May 9 and, Thursday May 11. These PACT (Parking and Congested Traffic) meetings are looking for public comment from businesses and residents. Please visit the city webpage HERE for more on this initiative. Below are images from the flyers received in all 93921 PO Boxes 4/15/2023.
Apr 5 2023 City Council - Brian Uhler spoke briefly in public comments announcing the beginning of the community outreach and the new city webpage HERE, and especially the subpage HERE for past reports, articles, studies, gatherings and timelines (many also provided below). And here is a link to the Monterey Herald article published April 5th on this new initiative. Feb 6 2023 City Council - Council has approved B.Uhler's Consulting Agreement with public outreach to begin shortly. Details on this approval are available HERE. Oct 4 2022 City Council Initial Report& background information is available as follows. B. Uhler - Staff Summary Report HERE
Read on for the original coverage on this topic Carmel has had at least 2 prior attempts at a Paid Parking that were withdrawn largely due to community objections. At least one of these initiatives, was likely to meet or exceed its goals, but for not. Visit this page again, for future links to articles on those prior efforts.
From a prior/past Village Paid Parking Project Challenges of Carmel Parking? (an online game) There are many benefits of paid parking, revenue being a big one with the contributions it could make to our city income. Another can/could be improved access to open parking space - especially given what new mobile technology can bring to the deployment. Stepping back, there is no question that parking can be a challenge in our town, especially during larger local events, and also routinely when visitors escape the heat to our cooler coastal climate. Is paid parking "the" answer? It could be. As a part of educating our community on this new project, consider this YouTube and expert Book author on the "High Cost of Free Parking" Professor Shoup. Dr. Shoup clarifies the costs of cars hunting for spaces, the actual cost of the space and much more. In-depth Dr. Shoup Interview YouTube here (Sept 2021) On the other side and with much longer term planning considerations could be making our downtown "Car Free" or better said "Pedestrian Only". This aligns with increasing quantities of European towns and this option could make a contribution to decreasing greenhouse gases. There are many sources online that speak to the benefits of going Car Free. Here are just a few. Wikipedia on CarFree Cities here Your additions, comments and suggestions are very welcome in the months to come. Online articles on Paid (Metered) Parking efforts over time in our Village, for more background.
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