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1 AGENDA Town of Crested Butte Regular Town Council Meeting Monday, February 1, 2021 Meeting Information to Connect Remotely. Please use the address below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87471223471 Or Telephone: Dial US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 Crested Butte is a small or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 mountain town with a Webinar ID: 874 7122 3471 big community that strives toward a The times are approximate. The meeting may move faster or slower than expected. balanced and sustainable lifestyle 6:00 WORK SESSION while enjoying and 1) Parking Plan. protecting the soul of Staff Contact: Community Development Director Troy Russ the Valley. 7:00 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY MAYOR OR MAYOR PRO-TEM 7:02 CONFIRMATION OF APPOINTMENT OF COUNCIL MEMBER Town Council Values JASON MACMILLAN • Support Crested 7:08 APPROVAL OF AGENDA Butte’s quality of 7:10 CONSENT AGENDA life 1) January 19, 2021 Regular Town Council Meeting Minutes. • Promote Staff Contact: Town Clerk Lynelle Stanford resource efficiency 2) Approval from the Town Council to Pursue a Grant Application to the History and environmental Colorado’s State Historical Fund for a Historic Structure Assessment for Town Hall stewardship (507 Maroon Avenue). • Encourage a Staff Contact: Community Development Director Troy Russ sustainable and 3) Consideration on Letter to CDOT Commenting on Transportation Funding. healthy business Town Manager Dara MacDonald climate The listing under Consent Agenda is a group of items to be acted on with a single • Actively support motion. The Consent Agenda is designed to expedite Council business. The Mayor an authentic and will ask if any citizen or council member wishes to have any specific item discussed. unique community You may request that an item be removed from Consent Agenda at that time, prior to • Remain fiscally the Council’s vote. Items removed from the Consent Agenda will be considered under responsible New Business. • Continue 7:12 Proclamation in Honor of Dr. Laura Ramos thoughtful 7:20 Annual Report from Mountain Express Managing Director Jeremy management of our Herzog historic character 7:35 PUBLIC COMMENT • Seek Citizens may make comments on item not scheduled on the agenda. Those collaborative commenting should state their name and physical address for the record. Comments solutions to may be limited to five minutes. regional and local 7:45 STAFF UPDATES issues 8:00 LEGAL MATTERS 8:10 NEW BUSINESS Critical to our success 1) Approval of a Preferred Concept Alternative and Authorization to Allocate is an engaged Funds in 2021 for the Slate River Boat Launch Project. community and Staff Contact: Parks and Recreation Director Janna Hansen knowledgeable and 8:30 2) Discussion and Council Direction Regarding Tenancy for 308 3rd Unit K. experienced staff. Staff Contact: Finance Director Rob Zillioux 2 8:50 COUNCIL REPORTS AND COMMITTEE UPDATES 9:05 OTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL 9:15 DISCUSSION OF SCHEDULING FUTURE WORK SESSION TOPICS AND COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE • Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 6:00PM Work Session - 7:00PM Regular Council • Monday, March 1, 2021 - 6:00PM Work Session - 7:00PM Regular Council • Monday, March 15, 2021 - 6:00PM Work Session - 7:00PM Regular Council 9:20 EXECUTIVE SESSION For a conference with the Town Attorney for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions under C.R.S. Section 24-6-402(4)(b) regarding vested rights in the land use context. 10:15 ADJOURNMENT 3 Staff Report February 1, 2021 To: Mayor Schmidt and Town Council Thru: Troy Russ, Community Development Director From: Mel Yemma, Town Planner II Subject: Work Session: Parking Plan Summary: The purpose of this work session is to summarize and review previous parking studies and reports that the Town has conducted, review results from the 2021 Winter Parking Study, and discuss a proposed path forward to developing parking goals and a parking plan for the Town of Crested Butte. Background: Parking compliance and management concerns have been raised by the community throughout the years and were recently raised again with the concurrent community discussion regarding the configuration of Elk Avenue. In 2014, the Town conducted a parking analysis and demand summary, which led to developing the following parking goals: Create a safe pedestrian and bicycle friendly environment for residents, locals and guests. Encourage transit ridership and other modes of transportation. Decrease traffic congestion and minimize “spill-over” impacts into residential neighborhoods. Maximize existing supply of on and off-street parking and create new opportunities. Improve winter parking regulations and signage to minimize parking violations. Maintain current Town staffing, budgets and service levels. Develop community and character-based solutions. Several implementation measures occurred as an outcome of the 2014 parking demand summary. This included paving and striping of several public parking lots, acquiring new parking/snow storage areas, installing destination and wayfinding signage, developing new winter parking regulation signage, and more frequently removing snow storage berms along Elk Avenue. Since 2014, various new parking-related challenges emerged due to increases in general visitation, which were influenced by continued development in Town and our surrounding areas, expansion of the Center for the Arts, paving of Cottonwood pass, and acquisition of CBMR by Vail Resorts. In 2018, the Town re-visited the topic of parking as it was identified as a concern raised in the community survey. In the survey, of the 310 Town responses, 89% thought traffic congestion and parking availability are problems in town. When asked when traffic congestion and parking availability is a problem: 47% checked year-round except in off-seasons, 39% said mostly in summer and 3% marked mostly in winter while 11% stated that parking is not a problem. 4 After the community survey, utilizing the same overarching parking goals from 2014, the Town hired Interstate Parking Company of Colorado, LLC to conduct a Phase 1 Parking Study, which included: Verification of the existing on and off-street parking supply in the downtown area Collection of data regarding current traffic patterns and usage of the on and off-street parking supply during peak weekdays and weekends in August 2018. Interstate Parking conducted a detailed on-site parking occupancy data collection survey from August 17- 27, 2018 during a busy but non-peak period. Current occupancy of the public parking supply was determined to be 92% in the evenings with an average turn-over rate of 1.5 times during an 8-hour period. Based on existing traffic patterns including pedestrians, bicyclists, service/deliveries and transit, parking supply and land uses, the Phase 1 parking study identified the goal of maximizing the utilization of the existing roadways and on and off-street parking supply by: Increasing the turn-over rate of downtown parking spaces. Enhancing transit usage to alleviate congestion. Creating additional revenues to fund transit service and other public purposes. Developing a potential intercept parking lot with funded transit service. At the time of the parking study, Town staff anticipated developing a Parking Implementation Program as Phase 2. When Town Staff presented the Phase 1 findings to the Town Council, they identified the need for broader and more effective community outreach to develop a parking management plan/program. However, at the time, the Town Council decided not to proceed with developing Phase 2. In 2020, the Parking Plan was brought up again in relation to the reconfiguration of Elk Avenue. Additionally, the Town continues to experience substantial increases in visitation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. In reviewing the work conducted in 2014 and 2018, Town Staff recognizes a need to build off the data analyzed, conduct more comprehensive community outreach, and generally align the Town’s parking goals with the vision and values of the community. Presentation Overview and Proposed Next Steps: At the work session, Town Staff will briefly review the history of the Town’s parking conversations, share additional parking data that has been collected this Winter, and discuss a proposed path forward for developing a parking management plan. Town staff proposes engaging the community in a conversation about parking goals and management, utilizing the data that has been collected and analyzed. Initially, Town Staff planned to conduct another parking study during the peak of the summer season and engage in this community process during the summer and fall. However, Staff has recently engaged with Interstate Parking about further analysis of their 2018 data, which could result in the ability to begin the parking conversation this spring. ATTACHMENTS: 1) Parking PowerPoint Presentation 1/29/2021 5 Crested Butte Parking Council Study Session –February 1, 2021 Presentation Outline • Vision Statement and Core Community Values • What does the Council Vision Statement really mean? How can it be measured? • Parking Basics • Supply & Demand • Resource Management • Parking Studies • 2018 Parking Committee • 2019 Parking Study & Recommendations • 2021 Work Plan 1 1/29/2021 6 Core Community Values What is a Successful Parking Program? 2 1/29/2021 7 What is a Successful Parking Program? • Community Vision • Crested Butte is a small mountain town with a big community that strives toward a balanced and sustainable lifestyle while enjoying and protecting the soul of the Valley • What are the Community’s Core Values? How does Parking Relate to these Core Values? • What qualities of a small mountain town? • What makes a community, big? • What is a balanced and sustainable lifestyle, for residents and employers? • What is meant by the sole of the Valley • 2021 Work Plan • Winter and Summer Data • Community Engagement Parking Basics 3 1/29/2021 8 Urban Small Town Rural Total Spaces 2 to 4 / 1,000 sf 9 Noon 5 7 Total Spaces 5 to 7 / 1,000 sf EMPTY 9 Noon 5 4 1/29/2021 9 7 in 10 people will walk 500’.