Quality Over Quantity: Say Goodbye to Level of Service and Hello to Safer Streets for All

Quality Over Quantity:

Say Goodbye to Level of Service and Hello to Safer Streets For All!

HISTORY OF GROWTH MANAGEMENT

The Vicious Cycle

• Separation of Uses

• Induced Demand

• Sprawl

“Thedefinitionofinsanityisdoingthesamethingand

– Albert Einstein

expectingdifferentresults”

HISTORY OF GROWTH MANAGEMENT

“Youcan’tbuildyourway

“Builditandtheywillcome”

outofcongestion”

HISTORY OF MOBILITY PLANS & FEES

• 1985

“Growth Management Act”: Comp Plans & Transportation Concurrency

• 1999 Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEA)

• 2005 Proportionate Share (Pay-and-Go), Multimodal Transportation Districts (MMTD)

• 2007 Mobility Fees (Alternative fee system)

• 2009 Dense Urban Land Areas (DULA)

• 2010

• 2011

First Mobility Plan & Mobility Fee

“Community Planning Act”: Transportation Concurrency Optional

• 2013 Mobility Plans & Fee Preferred Mitigation Approach

MOBILITY FEES IN FLORIDA

WHAT IS A MOBILITY PLAN?

• 20-25 Year Vision

• Holistic Approach to Mobility

• Integrates Land Use & Transportation

• Prioritizes:

• Moving People vs. Moving Cars

• Safe Streets for All

• Compact Development

• Placemaking

• Basis for Mobility Fee

• Blueprint for Implementation

WHAT IS A MOBILITY FEE?

• One-time fee paid by (re) development

• Alternative to transportation concurrency & road impact fees

• Intended to offset transportation impact

• Funding source for Mobility Plan projects

• Can be spent on a variety of multimodal infrastructure, policies, programs, and services

Streets of the past

Streets of the Future

• Prioritize high speeds & moving vehicles

• Encourage long trips

• High fatality & injury rates

• Designed for commuters

• Carbon generators

• Prioritize lower speeds, safety, and movement of people

• Encourage accessibility

• Goal of zero road deaths and serious injuries

• Designed equitably for all users

• Carbon mitigators

Cities of the past

Cities of the future

City of St. Augustine

Parking In The Historic District

• Not currently an allowable land use

• No design, dimension, or landscape requirements

• No limits on the number of allowable spaces or design of spaces

• No rules governing use, towing, hours of operation, or rates

• Increasing number of complaints of predatory practices

• Visitors frequently believe lots are City facilities, not privately owned

• Consider banning all paid off-street surface parking (including City)

• Establish regulations for paid off-street surface parking

Parking Outside Historic District

• Allow for shared-use parking studies

• Allow for multimodal off-sets

• Allow off-site parking to meet parking requirements within certain distance

• Allow for on-street parking to be provided versus off-street

• Allow for valet parking and mechanical lifts

• Allow for payment in-lieu of parking spaces (fund multimodal or surface)

• Allow for annual rental of off-site parking spaces (surface or structure)

Public Parking Survey

Q8: If downtown parking inventory was reduced, rank the following parking alternatives in order of preference.

Sunshine bus ride share (Uber/Lyft)

Public Parking Survey

Q9: What alternatives to parking downtown would you be willing to use?

satellite parking with direct shuttle drop-off

satellite parking within walking distance

satellite parking with "circulator" service riding a bike Sunshine bus ride share (Uber/Lyft)

Other (please specify)

Evolution of Thinking

• Realizing that the tourist economy has changed St. Augustine – 800,000 people tour the Fort per year, 3,000,000 visitors some years as high as 6,000,000 before COVID in a town of 15,000 people

• The congestion is not going to go away with the growth in St. Johns County as well, we are the entertainment district for the area

• We have to adjust and get creative to maintain some sense of livability and balance

• The Comprehensive Plan update process looking at 2040 was really worthwhile, and now is the hard part actually updating the everyday codes that really make it happen

July 2017