San Marcos Downtown Area Plan

CHAPTER 4: RECOMMENDATIONS

Over the past few years, the City has striped several on-street parking spaces in Downtown, implemented an e-cab shuttle, and partnered with local businesses to contribute funds for a downtown business employee parking lot. The City of San Marcos adopted a Parking Program Framework Plan in 2018. It “provides a high-level program overview for the development of a comprehensive and strategic approach to managing parking in the Downtown area of San Marcos, TX.” The plan identifies how downtowns can typically only have two of three desired parking characteristics: convenient, inexpensive, and enough. The plan provides strategies to balance those objectives and includes 11 primary action items for San Marcos’ Downtown parking. These are categorized and listed below, based on feedback from the Downtown Area Plan process. PARKING (Recommendation C.10, C.11, C.12) MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY & PARKING

Top Priorities

Additional Action Items · Continue to iInvest in Parking Management Technology · Program Branding & Marketing · Continue to develop Staff Parking Management Expertise · Continuous Improvement in Parking Enforcement · Establish Mobility Management Enterprise Fund

· Seek Opportunities to Expand Parking Supply · Create & Empower Parking Management Organization · Establish Parking Benefit District(s) to generate revenue · Manage On-Street Parking More Efficiently · Connect Parking Management & Economic Development · Embrace Parking as Mobility Management

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