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Q13 What are your top three recommendations for improving patron access to West Main Street? Answered: 18 Skipped: 5 #Responses Date 1 Don't reduce the limited amount parking that is currently available Allow better visibility of signage 9/19/2014 9:54 AM 2 More private parking Longer periods (more than 2 hours) to park 9/12/2014 2:54 PM 3 Improve sidewalks and landscaping, continued access to all on-street parking and a paid public parking lot somewhere (like the corner parking lot or water/south st. meter lot), improved marking and signage of crosswalks. 8/31/2014 5:04 PM 4 Build underground parking.8/29/2014 1:40 PM 5 Building a multi-level public parking garage 8/27/2014 2:08 PM 6 I think it's fine now - but hear that the new development proposals may end up removing a lot of the on-street parking and that would hurt my business. 8/26/2014 11:33 PM 7 Number one recommendation is to keep the intersection at west Main street open to traffic that is turning onto (5th) street. The intersection I am speaking of is to the right of the Lewis and Clark monument. I own The Cutting Edge Salon right at that intersection and see how much traffic that comes from Main street and turns onto 5th street. It would be a HUGE mistake West Main street is condensed into just 1 lane at that intersection. 8/26/2014 10:46 PM 8 1. Continuing the 2 hour parking limit in the W.Main lot surrounding the old Alb. Hotel and enforcing the limit. Perhaps extending a limit (perhaps 3 hours) into dining hours. 2. Offering low cost parking options for employees of businesses on W. Main to free up available spaces 3. Creating a better pedestrian experience (more crosswalks with signage or lights, stop signs, shade trees, redesign of street parking to make exiting side streets and parking lots safer, leveling sidewalks, litter patrol, doggie poop bags and a sign saying, Midtown.) 8/26/2014 2:23 PM 9 PARKING!!!!!! For being in the downtown area, our patrons have very limited parking options. We have our own parking lot at the Main Street Market, but this parking is shared by 10 businesses and is not sufficient. Plus I know that customers of other businesses along West Main Street park in our lot because their are no other options. The street parking is limited and decreasing all the time especially with the creation of the bike lanes. The City needs to provide more parking, the lot behind the Albemarle Hotel is not sufficient. Either, give us a parking garage or empower a developer to do so for us. 8/26/2014 1:58 PM 10 Safer bike lanes, better access to parking for ALL businesses, better sidewalks.8/26/2014 1:49 PM 11 1. Increase on street parking...do not decrease on street parking.8/26/2014 1:27 PM 12 As W Main develops there needs to be short term public parking.8/26/2014 11:23 AM 13 1) Maintain (or increase) current number of street-side parking spaces 2) Reduce time allowance from 2-hour to 1-hour 3) Install lights in crosswalks (like UVA crosswalks) 8/26/2014 10:09 AM 14 Stop building all these student houses!!!!! Build another parking garage closer to UVA Hospital Allow a lot for parking close to UVA Hospital 8/26/2014 9:02 AM 15 The same parking lot that we share only three spots for just our members called m14 permits only is never full and hasn't been for the past 7 years since the credit union has been here, why couldn't we have two spots for our employees? The credit union started with just UVA employees 8/25/2014 5:09 PM 16 1. Better auto traffic management. Some very difficult access points, such as the Main St. Market parking lot which had a left turn entry lane for about one week, then got changed. 5th St. SW is terrible -- have to inch out into traffic to see, pedestrians risking their lives, etc 2. Stop planning on putting so much street area to bicycles in the upcoming changes. Stand out there and count how many bikes there are, and if they really use the corridor's businesses, then try to rationalize making bike lanes that take up such a large amount of space. 3. Enforce parking limits for public parking, or use paid parking. This seems like a proven concept. Build a public parking deck behind Alb hotel so that the area can become somewhat pedestrian oriented, in general, even if that doesn't work for most of my customers. (I need help patrolling our parking lot, but I realize that's not the question here) 8/25/2014 4:56 PM 21 / 26 West Main Street Commercial and Retail Parking Survey