Georgetown Curbside Management: Community Meeting

April 1, 2015

Purpose of this meeting

• Provide overview of the Curbside Management Study • Describe neighborhood curbside management planning

process • Review community curbside use profile (existing data & maps) • Discuss potential curbside management options

Curbside Management Study Vision …to manage curbside resources to provide reliable access to homes, places of work and worship, commercial establishments.

Goals • Keep policies fair and transparent • Preserve neighborhood character • Support commercial districts • Ensure access to work, school, & services • Encourage growth, preserve quality of life

Process • Assess the existing curbside uses and policies • Provide a framework for further discussion and analysis • It DOES NOT establish new programs, parking

restrictions, etc.

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Thematic Approaches from Study: • Local Amenity Support

• Equitable Access

• Resident Priority

• Managed Availability Approaches differ in terms of:

• Priority users • Tradeoffs • Potential tools

Neighborhood Typology for Curbside Management

Georgetown Typology: Higher Intensity Districts

• Diverse land uses • Lower employment density • Moderate land values • Some structured off-street parking • Corridor centric

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• Data Driven Approach Quantify curbside supply and demand

• Stakeholder Engagement & Public Input Engage working groups and community

• Pilot Neighborhoods Georgetown , Eastern Market, Dupont Circle

• Toolkit- Develop a community based approach to address curbside management

• Evaluation- Quantitative and qualitative assessment of implementation

Process: Neighborhood Scale Parking Planning

Stakeholder group participants, including • Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2E • Citizen’s Association of Georgetown (CAG) • Georgetown Business Association (GBA) • Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) • Georgetown University • District Department of Transportation (DDOT)

Several work group sessions discussing • Key community concerns • DDOT’s updated data approach • Initial curbside inventory findings • Toolkit overview

Georgetown Parking Work Group

Overview Key items raised during working group sessions • Smaller RPP zone

• Resident-only parking

• Expand paid parking on residential blocks adjacent to commercial uses to include residential exemptions

• Limited, managed distribution of visitor passes

• Performance pricing on commercial blocks

ANC 2E: Summary Curbside Profile

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Source: March 2013 DMV Data • RPP • Vehicle Registration

Curbside Inventory • Google Earth 2013- August 2014 • Globespotter: Nov. 2013-May 2014

Residential Permit Parking Permits vs. Number of Spaces

RPP Space Utilization per Block (Point in Time Data)

RPP Utilization (Point in Time)

Estimated Customer Demand per Existing Metered Block

Meter Utilization (Point in Time Data)

Best Case Scenario (If all off-street parking is used)

RESIDENT PRIORITY “Priority for residential

neighborhoods primarily for local, long term residents.”

MANAGED AVAILABILITY “Maintain availability for all

users and demands.”

PRIORITY USERS/USES • Existing residents/residences • Visitors of existing

residents/residences • Commercial loading and delivery • Commercial patrons

TRADE-OFFS • Limited support for local businesses • Treatment of “new” versus “existing”

residents and properties

PRIORITY USERS/USES • High-capacity access (transit, bikes

and shared vehicles) • All other users

TRADE-OFFS • Higher parking rates and permit

fees • No user group is given preferential

treatment. • Requires active management and

price adjustment

Options to Consider:

Resident Priority

Managed Availability

Resid

entia

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g Resident-only RPP on one side of street X

Smaller RPP zones X X

Visit

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Park

ing Diversify visitor permit distribution methods X X

Set limits on visitor pass distribution X X

Price visitor passes X

Met

ered

Pa

rkin

g Adjust meter pricing zones through “performance parking”

X

Meter residential streets (residents exempt) X X

What we need from you and next steps

• Discuss issues and analysis

• Discuss program options and approaches

• Rank your priorities

• Let us know your thoughts: Stephen Rice: stephen.rice@dc.gov