Comprehensive Parking Plan
Parking is an integral part of enhancing downtown as a vibrant and successful community for residents, workers and visitors. CCDC recently completed an update to the Comprehensive Parking Plan for Downtown San Diego The plan augments the goals and policies of the Downtown Community Plan and is intended to provide downtown with a guiding document and implementation tool to continue to address the parking demand.
The plan generated a series of near, mid and long-term recommendations, including the balance of providing for vehicles in downtown with the goal of being an environment that promotes walking, biking and utilizing mass transit to provide the foundation for better utilization parking supplies and a more sustainable future for downtown San Diego.
- Establish an 85 percent on-street occupancy trigger;
- Implement a universal wayfinding system;
- Implement a universal valet parking program;
- Develop shared parking database;
- Implement combination loading zones;
- Refine Cortez Hill Residential Parking Permit Program;
- Vary parking meter rates and extend hours of operation of on-street paid parking system;
- Use existing parking efficiently; and
- Acquire or develop public parking spaces.
- Implement new parking enforcement techniques;
- Unbundle parking; and
- Develop a parking trade program.
- Implement real-time on-street variable rate systems; and
- Increase parking supply when necessary.
Three public workshops, two days of stakeholder interviews and several public meetings were held to gain an understanding of the community's needs and desires for parking.
In addition a number of studies and informational fact sheets were generated to help educate the public on general parking issues and options as well as provide and analyze case studies of like urban environments.
The plan continues to be presented for recommendation and adoption by the City of San Diego.
September:
Centre City Advisory Committee
San Diego City Council
Subscribe to CCDC's e-mail blasts and receive information on current parking issues. Click here, complete the form and select the item for "parking."
CCDC also serves on the Community Parking District Advisory Board with the Downtown Parking Management Group (DPMG) as advisors. DPMG hosts public meetings at 11:30 a.m. on the first Thursday of each month at the CCDC Board Room. Please check the meeting and events calendar on www.ccdc.com for more details.
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