VIDEO: Loveland’s Downtown Parking Committee report released
This Loveland Magazine TV video was taken on January 27, when the City of Loveland’s Downtown Parking Committee presented the culmination of their work.
On January 28, 2014, council appointed a Downtown Parking Advisory Committee (“DPAC”) to identify issues and solutions for improving downtown parking conditions. The committee was charged with identifying short-, mid-, and long-term actions to address parking management and supply. The DPAC held monthly meetings between March 2014 and December 2014, from which several parking issues were discussed. On December 17, 2014, the committee met and identified the following recommendations to be forwarded to City Council.
You can read their written report here: Downtown Parking Advisory Committee – Recommendations to City Council
The committee found that there is currently adequate parking in Historic Downtown, and projected to be in the near future, but drivers have trouble finding it.
The Committee recommended that City Council:
1. Implement parking restrictions (hours)
2. Create a new Downtown Parking Management Plan
3. Endorse and adopt a parking inventory
4. The committee suggests that each public lot in downtown have a name
5. Adopt a Wayfinding plan
6. Endorse and facilitate (and as a property owner the city join) establishment of a Special Improvement District (Tax District) to implement (among other things)
a. Parking plan management, possibly including parking meters
b. Wayfinding on private properties
c. Decorative/wayfinding lighting & streetscape
d. Special events
e. Enhanced services (landscaping, street/sidewalk cleaning, snow removal, etc. (supplementing, not supplanting normal municipal services)
7. Encourage a review and update of City’s Comprehensive Plan with special emphasis on land use and zoning in downtown.
8. Endorse a pedestrian/bike bridge over Little Miami River.
