Goals to Support the Mission Statement

Parking management is an interrelated web of strategies and tactics that are formulated to meet certain goals for the parking system. The coactive goals to support the Mission Statement read as follows:

Providing sufficient parking to service existing land uses, additional parking supply to supplement private parking supply in areas of the downtown that suffer from a parking deficit, and adequate parking supply to support new development initiatives that correspond to anticipated parking demand


Maintaining structurally sound, safe, clean, well-lit, and well landscaped parking facilities that aesthetically integrate and functionally serve the community in which they exist


Recognizing that parking is a business and a service, and as such, must follow a business model that is financially self-sustaining and founded in the economic law of supply and demand


Employing the least offensive and most understandable parking management strategies that are fair, consistent, and equitably administered


Preserving the most convenient and proximate parking spaces for short-term parking patrons, presumably retail parking patrons, while encouraging long-term parking patrons, presumably office and retail employees, to park in spaces that are less proximate to their destinations


Promoting compliance with parking regulations


Promoting easy access to parking destinations in a pedestrian friendly environment


Promoting alternative means of transportation through relationships, communication and cooperation with mass transit providers


Preserving parking for its residents in neighborhoods throughout the city


Promoting a consistent look so that public parking is easily identifiable


Maintaining effective and timely internal and external communications