Item 22 - Public Hearing Regarding Bristol Project

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Related Bristol Specific Plan Entitlements & Development Agreement (3600 S. Bristol St.) and Staff Resolution Modifying Parking Districts in the Surrounding Area September 17, 2024 Page 35 Pursuant to Article XI (commencing with Section 36-480) of Chapter 36 of the SAMC, the City Council is authorized to adopt resolutions establishing permit parking districts in which parking restrictions apply to all vehicles except those vehicles that have been issued parking permits pursuant to such Article. By Resolution Nos. 91-088, 93-076, and 2000-062, the City Council established the South Coast, the Sandpointe, and the South Metro Permit Parking Districts (Exhibit 18). Residents in these Parking Districts may petition to impose permit parking restrictions if desired by the property owners within each District. On April 19, 2022, the City Council adopted the General Plan Update. The new General Plan went into effect on May 26, 2022. The new General Plan allows for significant mixed -use redevelopment within the South Bristol Street Focus Area. As part of the General Plan implementation process and subsequent development project applications, City staff have conducted extensive outreach in the neighborhoods in and around the South Bristol Focus Area to solicit resident concerns and feedback regarding the proposed redevelopment in the area. Residents have expressed concerns that proposed development projects in the South Bristol Street Focus Area may impact available parking on neighborhood streets and have requested that the City modify existing procedures to facilitate expanded utilization and participation in the City's permit parking program. While extensive environmental review and traffic studies completed for the General Plan Update and for the Related Bristol Project evidenced that development of projects consistent with the General Plan development thresholds will not have direct impacts on parking to the surrounding residential neighborhoods, nonetheless, enhancing the ability of the various Permit Parking Districts adjacent to the South Bristol Focus Area to expand utilization and participation the permit parking program would ease community concerns and could improve the effectiveness of the existing permit parking program. The City is in the process of performing a Citywide parking study to, in part, evaluate Citywide permit parking program modifications. Completion of this study is not anticipated until fall of 2025 and will therefore not adequately address the near -term concerns brought forward by the Focus Area residents. To address the concerns brought forward by residents in a timely manner, staff recommends the adoption of a concurrent resolution as an implementation action of the General Plan to amend the definition of a parking block within the established Parking Districts. The current regulations require a separate permit parking petition for each individual block, which makes implementing parking restrictions in a uniform manner an arduous task for residents. The proposed amendment allows for a single permit parking petition to be considered for multiple, contiguous residential blocks such that uniform parking restrictions are implemented along multiple street segments at a time.