14. 22-0390
Discuss the Expansion of Public Parking Structure Lot 4 Located at the Northeast Corner of Rosecrans Avenue and Highland Avenue (Public Works Director Lee).
(Estimated Time: 30 Mins.)
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
Neutral as not enough information to form a position. Would like to understand:
1) Business need. What problem are we trying to solve? is it to provide more access to North Manhattan business district, provide parking for employees (City and local retail), provide increased public access to the beach?
2) for business need, what parking do we have today and what amount of parking do we need to fulfill the business need? does increase of 63 meet need?
3) the parking structure has a great view of the ocean which would be a very desirable restaurant location. Was a mixed-use concept considered as a renting space to a restaurant may provide good revenue flow to the city.
4) Est cost of $9/5M for (140 - 77) 63 spots means each space costs $150K. What is annual revenue from a parking space and when does this investment get paid off?
5) where will people currently using the lot park during construction? how long is construction expected to take?
Given the exigent climate crisis, if we had $9.5M to spend, we should be looking for solutions that don't involve encouraging the use of cars, but alleviate the need. Under today's conditions any project should consider the impact on carbon emissions based on its own development, and this one has a lot. The proposal suggests such impacts are being ignored and we take no responsibility for our impacts. On top of that is the impact on transportation around and through this area during construction, and of course after construction, for any area that is already significantly impacted and could likely be more impacted later. [I wouldn't doubt, however, that there's some strategizing going on relative to potential HighRose development.] In addition, I don't particularly care for projects that all of sudden show up outside of a long-term capital projects strategy, lack any benefit analysis, and that are discussed in the absence of all the other projects that could use this money.
Neutral as not enough information to form a position. Would like to understand:
1) Business need. What problem are we trying to solve? is it to provide more access to North Manhattan business district, provide parking for employees (City and local retail), provide increased public access to the beach?
2) for business need, what parking do we have today and what amount of parking do we need to fulfill the business need? does increase of 63 meet need?
3) the parking structure has a great view of the ocean which would be a very desirable restaurant location. Was a mixed-use concept considered as a renting space to a restaurant may provide good revenue flow to the city.
4) Est cost of $9/5M for (140 - 77) 63 spots means each space costs $150K. What is annual revenue from a parking space and when does this investment get paid off?
5) where will people currently using the lot park during construction? how long is construction expected to take?
Given the exigent climate crisis, if we had $9.5M to spend, we should be looking for solutions that don't involve encouraging the use of cars, but alleviate the need. Under today's conditions any project should consider the impact on carbon emissions based on its own development, and this one has a lot. The proposal suggests such impacts are being ignored and we take no responsibility for our impacts. On top of that is the impact on transportation around and through this area during construction, and of course after construction, for any area that is already significantly impacted and could likely be more impacted later. [I wouldn't doubt, however, that there's some strategizing going on relative to potential HighRose development.] In addition, I don't particularly care for projects that all of sudden show up outside of a long-term capital projects strategy, lack any benefit analysis, and that are discussed in the absence of all the other projects that could use this money.