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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Mindy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Parking is a favorite topic of ours at the Transportation and Growth Management program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">A few quick notes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Parking meters were created in Oklahoma City in 1935 by businesses interested in encouraging customer turnover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From experience across the country, it seems most customers would rather to pay a bit to have a spot free near where they are going than to have to
spend lots of time searching for a spot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Parking management consultants usually call for using time limits and pricing to make sure roughly 85% of spaces are full to optimize parking, as that
means roughly one-two spaces are free each block.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’d recommend skimming “the High Cost of Free Parking” though it’s 700+ pages long, it’s a quick read. Chapter one is here:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/Chapter1.pdf">http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/Chapter1.pdf</a>. Another of Shoup’s writings is here:
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny7kt9jnfzmt5fy/ParkingPriceTherapy.pdf?dl=0">
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny7kt9jnfzmt5fy/ParkingPriceTherapy.pdf?dl=0</a> and a host of it is here
<a href="https://www.shoupdogg.com/publications/">https://www.shoupdogg.com/publications/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For those interested in parking resources, we’ve got a web page full of them:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/TGM/Pages/Parking.aspx">https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/TGM/Pages/Parking.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As far as to your immediate question - In short, the transition may be hard and involve customers complaining – but in the end, businesses are likely to gain if they are businesses
people like to go to. A dollar or two for convenient parking is not usually the difference between customers coming and not when someone is going to a $30 dinner or buying a $80 dress, or even stopping for an $8 lunch. Having some free parking on the edges
may be useful for those who would rather walk four blocks than pay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A few years ago the City of Salem, for example, debated putting in meters, did not, removed time limits – and then the businesses clamored for time limits to be re-instituted.
You might call them about their experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I believe the City of Eugene may have instituted parking price adjustments recently too. You might reach out to Jeff. </span><a href="https://www.eugene-or.gov/778/Downtown-Parking">https://www.eugene-or.gov/778/Downtown-Parking</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Evan<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Downtown Bend, OR<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 13, 2019 4:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OMS_MANAGERS] Free parking in Downtown?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our city is considering eliminating free parking in our Downtown. Has anyone else gone through this transition and would you be willing to share the impact that it had on businesses?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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