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16 2.32.32.32.3 Recommended OnRecommended OnRecommended OnRecommended On----Street Parking PlanStreet Parking PlanStreet Parking PlanStreet Parking Plan 2.3.1 Introduction and Key Points This section summarizes the study’s recommendations for on-street parking. · The City should re-designate downtown on-street parking spaces to follow a simpler, more understandable pattern of zones with corresponding time limits: o A Core Zone (streets surrounding and adjoining the mall) with an emphasis on business loading needs, short visits to businesses (one-hour parking) and accessible (ADA) spaces. o An Inner Zone with the emphasis on two-hour parking, serving shoppers and other downtown customers and visitors. o An Outer Zone with the emphasis on unrestricted parking. · The City should introduce additional loading spaces, and new categories of loading space, to meet particular needs in the Core Zone, as described in this report. · The City should adopt policies for dealing with requests to change designation of spaces, as well as for construction and residential moving impacts, as described in this report. 2.3.2 Recommended Zones and Time Limits for On-Street Parking Downtown parking should follow a simpler, more understandable pattern of zones with corresponding time limits. Figure 2.5 shows the recommended zones, which are: · A Core Zone, representing streets surrounding and adjoining the Mall, where the emphasis is on business loading needs, short visits to businesses (one-hour parking) and accessible (ADA) spaces. · An Inner Zone representing the time-limited spaces outside the Core Zone. The emphasis in this zone would be on two-hour parking to serve shoppers and other downtown customers and visitors. Loading, ADA and one-hour spaces should be provided where these are needed in specific locations. · An Outer Zone, covering the remainder of the study area. This zone would have unrestricted parking. Loading, ADA and one-hour spaces should be provided where these are needed in specific locations. This recommendation is in line with the general parking management principle that the shortest stays deserve the most convenient parking spaces. It also aims to: · Make it clear to people where they should be trying to park, once they know how long they plan to stay. · Reduce ‘hunting’ for spaces and preserve the most convenient spaces for shoppers and customers rather than ‘two-hour shuffle’ commuters. The time limits on general parking spaces should be simplified to correspond to the zone: · 15-minute and 30-minute spaces should all become one-hour spaces. The Stakeholder Group recommended a one-hour limit as being the most appropriate for the core zone of Downtown Charlottesville. · The small number of existing one-hour spaces outside the core zone should be converted to two-hour spaces.