Please place on the September 13, 2023 agenda a referral to the September 26, 2023 Public Safety and Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee to discuss a potential parking solution to mitigate the loss of permanent parking as a result of the West Avenue Neighborhood Improvement Project.

Members of the West Avenue Neighborhood Association (WAVNA) have spent considerable time developing options to minimize the loss of permanent residential parking as a result of the West Avenue Project.  One option that WAVNA recently identified involves a potential partnership with one of the area stakeholders, the property located 1450 Lincoln Road, to develop a parking structure on the existing parking lot located on the south side of 1450 Lincoln Road, to provide for additional, permanent public parking for the benefit of area residents. 

A detailed summary of the proposal submitted by WAVNA, as well as a design concept, is attached. I commend WAVNA for its creative efforts to identify public parking solutions that will benefit area residents, and I believe this proposal is worthy of full consideration. In view of the importance of providing permanent public parking in the West Avenue neighborhood, as part of this referral, I would ask for the Administration to carefully evaluate the proposal, discuss the proposal further with WAVNA and area stakeholders, and advise the Committee on its feasibility.