Laserfiche WebLink
WEST MAIN STREET PARKING OPPORTUNITIES AND ANALYSIS <br /> City of Charlottesville <br /> <br />Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. | 6 <br /> <br />PARKING SUPPLY <br />The parking inventory identified West Main Street’s parking supply as: <br />West Main Street Parking Overview <br />Commercial 1098 <br />Residential 1135 <br />Hotel 762 <br />Civic 455 <br />UVA Health System 2059 <br />Other 293 <br />On Street Spaces 85 <br />Total 5887 <br /> <br />Most parking spaces within the West Main Corridor are off-street (98% of spaces, or 5,802 <br />spaces). These spaces are controlled by a variety of off-street regulations, categorized as <br />public/not time-limited, customer only, customers/employees, employee only, permit only, <br />residential, and residents/employees. Almost all of the off-street spaces, or 5,327 spaces, are <br />dedicated to employee/permit and customer parking with only 8% of off-street spaces being <br />publicly-available. <br />The 85 on-street spaces along the West Main corridor are categorized by two distinct on-street <br />regulatory categories (15-minutes and 2-hours), plus unregulated spaces (e.g. those without <br />regulatory signs governing them). All of these on-street spaces are publicly available and nearly <br />all on-street spaces are time-limited; most are for two hours or less. <br />Based on interviews with both merchants and staff, enforcement of time limits on the corridor is <br />fairly lax and sporadic. At present on-street parking is not metered at any time of the day, week <br />or year. <br />PARKING DEMAND <br />On-and off-street demand was observed during week days and weekends on an average week in <br />September 2014. Field observations counted 88 on- street spaces and 18 loading spaces. Based <br />on observed demand, peak periods in the study area occur during weekday midday (11am to <br />3pm); weekday evenings (5pm to 9pm), Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings – although <br />there is relatively constant demand throughout the day. <br />Due to the small block size, the study area was segmented into three parts: <br /> Ridge McIntire to 6th Street <br /> 6th Street to 8th Street/rail bridge <br /> 8th Street to 10th Street <br />