Addendum
PREPARED BY: Matt Morley
Parks and Public Works Director
Reviewed by: Town Manager, Assistant Town Manager, Town Attorney, and Finance Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: 2/20/2018
ITEM NO: 06
ADDENDUM
DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2018
TO: MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL
FROM: LAUREL PREVETTI, TOWN MANAGER
SUBJECT: REVIEW TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING COMMISSION WORK ON
DOWNTOWN TIME LIMITED PARKING AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF
REMARKS:
After the distribution of the Staff Report, staff received the following questions from a
Councilmember. Staff responses follow in italic font.
Can the Town solve the parking problem downtown in other ways, such as angled parking
with one lane/one-way streets?
There are a number of strategies that could help to reduce the parking congestion. Using the
85% mark as a target for providing some relief, the Town would need to add about 140 spaces.
A combination of angled and parallel parking on potential one-way streets that run
perpendicular to University and Santa Cruz Avenues would add up to 34 spaces.
The real problem that needs to be solved is high school students and employee parking
downtown. High school students fill up certain Town lots.
There may be some high school students parking in the downtown lots. Based on recent
observations, these numbers may be limited. The Town continues to encourage high school
users to utilize the Miles Avenue parking with increasing success.
What about selling parking permits to employees, high school students, and/or others who
want to park longer than 3 hours; and “stacking” parking to get more cars (with a valet
service)?
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REMARKS (cont’d):
The selling of parking permits will not add parking capacity and may actually reduce capacity of
two and three-hour spaces, depending on where the allowable spaces are situated. Staff
believes that nearly all of the unlimited parking areas are currently used by employees based on
the early occupancy of these spaces each day. Employee parking permits may help address
congestion from shuffling vehicles expressed by employees.
Additional capacity can be achieved by shifting employee parking to the North and Miles
Avenue lots. There are approximately 65 spots available weekdays in the North lot and an
estimated 25 spots available weekdays on Miles Avenue.
Stacking of vehicles through a valet service will provide capacity. This service would come with
an ongoing operations cost. Neither the cost or potential capacity have been assessed to date.
Paid parking may be an effective method for affecting parking behavior, especially for employee
parking. Further discussion on this topic is forthcoming.
Addressing the parking congestion through a combination of efforts that incrementally improve
conditions may provide the greatest opportunity for noticeable change.