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Parking Reform

This document provides an overview and status update on proposals to reform parking regulations in Dallas. It discusses Park(ing) Day, the history of the parking code amendment process, issues with the current parking requirements, recommendations from adopted city plans to reduce parking minimums and support alternative transportation, and the proposed pillars of parking reform which include right-sizing regulations, improving design, requiring transportation demand management plans, and establishing managed parking areas.

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Parking Reform

This document provides an overview and status update on proposals to reform parking regulations in Dallas. It discusses Park(ing) Day, the history of the parking code amendment process, issues with the current parking requirements, recommendations from adopted city plans to reduce parking minimums and support alternative transportation, and the proposed pillars of parking reform which include right-sizing regulations, improving design, requiring transportation demand management plans, and establishing managed parking areas.

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Park(ing) Day

and
Status of the Off-Street
Parking & Loading
Code Amendment
Dallas City Council
September 6, 2023
Julia Ryan, AICP, Director
Planning & Urban Design

Andreea Udrea, PhD, AICP, Assistant Director


Planning & Urban Design
Presentation Overview

1. Presentation Purpose
2. Park(ing) Day
3. Code Amendment Background
4. Current Zoning Regulations
5. Citywide Adopted Plans
6. Overview of Parking Reform Pillars
7. Received Feedback and Timeline

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Presentation Purpose

• 15th September: Park(ing) Day.


• Provide a status of the off-street parking
code amendment as requested by the
August 3, 2023- five-signature Council Memo.
• Reminder of recently-adopted applicable
plans and policies.
• Not a proposal.

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Five-Signature Council Memo
• August 3, 2023: A resolution requesting the City of
Dallas recognize the 15th of September as
Park(ing)Day and a request for the City Manager
to begin planning and implementing actions to
reduce parking in the city and provide briefings on
the status of parking reduction and the elimination
of minimum parking requirements in the city.
• By Council Members: West, Bazaldua, Willis,
Resendez, and Schultz

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Park(ing) Day
• PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event where
artists, activists, and citizens turn parking spots into
temporary public parks and other spaces for people
to enjoy. PARK(ing) Day is a non-commercial
project, intended to promote creativity, civic
engagement, critical thinking, unscripted social
interactions, generosity, and play.
• Every year, thousands of parklets are created in
cities across the globe.

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Park(ing) Day
• In Downtown Dallas, we permit around 30 spaces on Main
Street where people can enjoy a day of play in a parking
space.
• PUD participates every year.
• To learn about the history of this event, visit the
official PARK(ing) Day website.

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Code Amendment Background
Council Member West Memo requesting the
August 28, 2019 authorization of a code amendment by
CPC
October 3, 2019 Authorization by City Plan Commission
25 ZOAC meetings:
March 5, 2020 –
Reviewed current conditions, research and
August 26, 2021
best practices, and developing proposal.
Public listening sessions and reintroduction
August 2023
at ZOAC

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City Plan Commission Authorization

• October 3, 2019: Consideration to be given to


amending off-street parking and loading
requirements including, but not limited to, hotel,
restaurant, multifamily, and alcoholic beverage
establishment uses, and transit-oriented
development.

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Current Zoning Regulations

• When a business or residence is established on a


property, the development code requires provided
parking and loading spaces off the public right-of-
way.
• Requirement is usually a ratio.
• Ex. One space per 300 square feet of building;
• Ex. One space per bedroom;
• Limited reductions may be available for certain
projects.

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Examples
(2) Commercial stable.
(A) Definition: A facility for the business of
boarding horses or renting horses to the public.
(C) Required off-street parking: One space for
each two stalls.
(10) Sewage treatment plant.
(A) Definition: A facility for receiving and
treating sewage from the city sanitary sewer system.
(C) Required off-street parking: One space for
each million gallons of capacity.

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Operational Issues with Current Code
Outdated, dysfunctional, and inflexible requirements
that create barriers to equitable development:
• Are a one-size-fits-all requirement
• Cumbersome process for applicants and staff
• Can be a barrier to redevelopment or use of existing
buildings
• Disproportionately burden small businesses and
entrepreneurs, with racial equity impact
• Impede environmental and neighborhood walkability
goals

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Citywide Plans – CECAP 2020 (Cont.)
ADOPT A REVISED PARKING ORDINANCE STRATEGY THAT
SUPPORTS NEW MODE SPLIT GOALS AND LAND USE
STRATEGY THAT MINIMIZES AVAILABLE PARKING IN
TRANSIT-ORIENTED DISTRICTS.
• Revised parking standards/maximum parking standards for corridors or
neighborhoods that have high transit connectivity.
• Parking management districts (rather than parking standards) per
development to begin shifting to a shared parking model for major nodes
of activity.
• Parking management districts with design guidance to retrofit surface lots
with green infrastructure best practices, such as permeable surfaces or
bioswales for water conveyance.
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Citywide Plans – CECAP 2020
SUPPORT AND RECOMMEND TRANSPORTATION DEMAND
MANAGEMENT (TDM) STRATEGIES IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE
STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN
tailored to a wide range of employers and industries to
support low wage, shift-based jobs.

Potential Outcome Metrics:


• Decrease in number of new parking spaces in the city
• Increase in transit ridership

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Citywide Plans – Connect Dallas 2021
• An often-overlooked area of policy that has tremendous impact
on mobility choices is the use of minimum parking requirements.
• High parking minimums force developers to build more parking
than they may otherwise deem necessary, passing on the cost to
commercial tenants and residents
• Land occupied by parking lots and parking structures is land not
occupied by more productive land uses, which further erodes the
City’s tax base.
• Eliminating parking minimums allows developers to respond to
demand more flexibly in higher density developments, especially
in areas close to transit and in walkable locations and increases
the attractiveness of transit and active transportation modes.

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Citywide Plans – Connect Dallas 2021

REFORM THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS TO


SUPPORT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION
1. “Right-size” Parking Regulations
2. Shift goal of traffic analysis from reducing delay (also
called "Level-of-Service") to reducing vehicle miles
traveled (VMT)
3. Introduce an active modes analysis and multi-modal
mitigation strategies into the TIA process

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Citywide Plans – Connect Dallas 2021

EMPHASIZE TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT


(TDM) TO MAXIMIZE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY:

2. Incorporate TDM into development review and incentivize


its adoption (i.e. offering parking reductions, density bonus, etc.)
3. Foster creation of Transportation Management
Associations in key employment districts such as
Uptown/Victory/Oak Lawn, North Central Expressway, Inland Port,
Galleria/ Valley View, and the Medical District

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Overview of Parking Reform Pillars
• Right-sizing of parking regulations for predictability
and flexibility in the development process, through
adequate requirements
• Improve parking design and accessibility
• Transportation Demand Management Plan
(Larger developments required to think comprehensively the
multimodal access to the lot)
• Managed Parking Area / Parking Benefit Districts
(Separate Action)
(On-street parking meters generate revenue for impacted
neighborhoods)

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Parking Pillar: Design Standards

• Intended to improve the urban design and mitigate


the impact of parking lots.
• Includes standards for urban form and
environmental sensibility carefully selected to
address specific situations:
• Ex. Parking behind the building (or partially)
• Ex. Provide pedestrian pathway through parking lot
• Ex. Ensure location of parking does not block building’s accessibility
from sidewalk
• Ex. Environmentally-friendly design

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Parking Pillar: Management

Transportation Demand Management (TDM)


• Update existing tools we use to clarify and formalize the
transportation review associated with larger projects
• Required for larger development projects.
• Project team must select prepared strategies to reach
assigned point target:
• Ex. Additional pedestrian improvements
• Ex. Better access to transit for residents or employees
• Ex. Bicycle facilities on-site

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Parking Pillar: Management (Cont.)
Managed Parking Areas /Parking Benefit District (PBD)
• Using parking meters and other tools to manage on-
street parking within a specific region.
• Revenue generated can be applied to public
improvements within PBD such as enforcement,
repairing sidewalks, or upgrading landscaping.
• Established by ordinance based off the On-Street
Parking and Curb Management Policy by Dept. of
Transportation.

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Received Feedback

Two Virtual Listening Sessions and one ZOAC meeting in


August 2023:
Support for: Concerns about:
• transitioning to multi-modal • added traffic congestion
transportation • less free and abundant parking
• acting on environmental goals • lack of transit and walk/bike
• adding opportunity for housing infrastructure
and business • spillover parking onto residential
• ensuring an aesthetic and blocks
walkable city

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Forecasted Outcome
• Incremental changes to new development and
redevelopment projects;
• Existing parking supply will remain, and possibly transition to
shared parking based on mix of uses and utilization rates;
• Developments will continue to provide parking based on
market demand:
• Precedent from other cities shows only slight reduction in provided supply;
• Examples from projects utilizing the Dallas Mixed Income Housing Density Bonus show
reduction of supply of only few spaces.

• Upcoming On-Street Parking and Curb Management Policy


proposes options to handle spillover parking, revenue
generation, parking permitting, etc.
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Timeline

Today Receive feedback from City Council


Fall Amendments briefed to ZOAC
City Plan Commission public hearing
Late Fall
on amendments
Winter 2023
Amendments briefed at City Council
Spring 2024

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Off-Street Parking &
Loading
Code Amendment
Dallas City Council
September 6, 2023
Julia Ryan, AICP
Director
Planning & Urban Design

Andreea Udrea, PhD, AICP


Assistant Director
Planning & Urban Design
ZOAC & Community Feedback
ZOAC briefings:
3.05.2020 - City of Dallas Parking Code Amendment Outline
6.18.2020 - City of Dallas Current Parking Regulations
7.09.2020 - City of Dallas Planned Development Districts
8.06.2020 - Index Cities and Other Cities Research
9.03.2020 - Local and National Parking Studies + Board of Adjustment Parking Reductions + Citywide
Plans
10.15.2020 - Public and Interdepartmental Outreach
11.5.2020 - 4 Case Studies
11.19.2020, 12.3.2020 - Discussion with Departments ---- MOTION to staff
1.21.2021 - Proposal Framework Option
2.4.2021 - Parking Ratios Table
2.25.2021 - Parking Ratios Table and Regulations Options
3.11.2021 – Parking Management Tools
4.1.2021 – Testing
4.15.2021 – Management Mechanisms
4.22.2021 – Discussion with City Manager and DART
5.6.2021 – Additional Testing
5.19 and 5.20.2021 – Public Input sessions
6.6.2021 – Debrief after public input
6.17.2021, 7.15.2021, 8.12.2021 – Parking Design Standards
8.26.2021 - TDM
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