City of Richmond

Fan District Residential Parking

May 21, 2012

Boundaries include:

Lombardy Place/W. Franklin St. (north)

Floyd Ave./Main St. (south)

N. Meadows St. (west)

N. Harrison St./S. Morris St. (east)

Approximately 100 block faces and approximately 1,680 curb side spaces

Approximately 1,790 permits in two zones

Park without a permit for one (1) hour on Mon-Fri from 7am-9pm

Parking permit require for parking more than an hour

Exisiting Conditions

Permit Fee - $25.00 - expires June 30th and are not pro-rated. Courtesy Parking Pass - $10 each – Expires 10 days from date of

issuance and may only be purchased by someone owning a valid Fan District parking decal.

Annual visitor’s pass - $35.00 each – limited to two per house or building address and it must be purchased at the same time as the Fan District Decal. It is non-replaceable and must be resident property owners and must have an annual permit.

Replacement of Fan District Parking Decal - A decal purchased for a vehicle that was sold or otherwise disposed of by the owner may be purchased for $1,

Permit Fee Structure

Current Parking Zones (on size fits all)

VCU parking deck underutilized Parking enforcement not

enough during night time hours Commercial parking demand

encroaching on district Increased parking enforcement

impacts homeowners Student “car shuffling” Zoning compliance-multiple

permits No parking enforcement on

weekends Parking enforcement

consistency

What is working? What is not?

Current Parking Zones Parking Enforcement Increase fines Booting program Enforcement hours Issuance of citations for “street

cleaning”

Proposed Recommendations

Increase parking inventory by regulating parking where allowed by code

Implement an “electronic permit” system that can be enforced by License Plate Recognition (LPR)

Eliminate the one (1) hour FREE parking in Zone 1 between the hours of 4pm and 11pm

Consistent signage and way-finding program that is easy to understand

Regulate the commercial area of the district (West Franklin St.) with paid parking

Proposed Recommendations

Increase hours of operations in the commercial zone form 6pm-10pm to improve turnover (support the elimination of the 1-hr of free parking between 4pm-11pm)

Create a 2-hour parking zone along the park (Hanover Ave) to accommodate commercial demand.

Adopt flexible approach to parking management of the parking zones in order to handle parking demand and parking inventory

Proposed Recommendations

Zone 1 – Boundaries: Vine St. to the west, Harrison St. on the east, Park/Franklin north and Main to the South. Residential

Permit parking only between 4pm-11pm (1-hr of free parking eliminated during these times only).

Zone 2 – Boundaries: Vine to the east, Rowland to the west, Park/Lombardy PL to the north and Floyd to the south.

Residential Permit parking restriction remains as is, with a 1-hour parking permit only zone

Proposed Recommendations

Develop weekend policies that support the parking demand for the district

Regulate and implement as two (2) hour parking of approximately 260 parking spaces in the VCU area leading to the RPP zone – 195 (south), Park Ave. (north), Belvedere (east) and Harrison (west)

Fan District Proposed Map

Thank you for your time!

Questions?