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' • , , I 49 ' FebruerY 23r.l9,' • • . The regular meeting of the Everett City Council was called to order at 11 .. 0:30 a.m.,Febsmary 23,1977 in the Council Chambers of the Everett City Hall,President Ebert presiding. •Upon roll call it wan found that .• .. Mayor Anderson and all councilmen were in attendance. • • minutes of the meeting held February 16,1977 were approved as printed. . • 1 1 • HEARING(C.72-51) ,I 1' • ZZeUTeCM'gbrot::/nrhell'In'llo=man'i""t"e'mve WEAN )1 ' Roll was called with all councilmen voting yes. , • .. • Motion Carried •' • • Councilman Moore said just prior to the end of the commissioner form of • government there were about 2,040 parking meters on the streets of Everett. 1 The commissioners saw fit to change the parking to parallel parking which reduced this amount to about half that number. With the CID beautifica- tion area 120 spaces were lost on Everett Avenue,27 on Colby and approxi- . mately 40 on Hewitt. This left about 830 perking stalls. . with the addition of 1,000 stalls im the Bon Marche parking garage and ' Everperk garage(and approximately 150 stalls•at Bank of Everett and Pay'n '' Save,it stil/left a net loss of almost 200 parking stalls from the • original parking meter installations. He said this was one reason he was proposing the ao-pay parking in the City of Everett. Hugh Warren of the Engineering Departmer,said he felt there were four parts to Councilman Moore's proposal. These were an follows: (1)CHB Parking plan, (2)no-pay on-street parking system( (3)angle parking on certain streets and(4)increased parking violation fines. .• . He said the who:e proposal had been reviewed in detail by the Transporta- • tion Advisory Committee. They h.established a primary retail area as • follows: Hewitt Avenue from Norton to Broadway,California Avenue from Hoyt to Rockefeller,Colby Avenue from 26th to•Wall Street,and Wetmore . Avenue ftmm California to 200 feet north of Wall Street. Those areas '' would be designated"one hour parking limit." The secondary retail area surrounding the primary from approximately 32nd to 25th Street and from • Grand.to Oakes would have a two-hour Um;limit. He said the third and last zone had not been fully defined by the Transportation Advisory Com- . mittee. They had deferred dissuasion on this zone in order that they Night have time to review the methods of implementing mixed parking time • • • restrictions with no restrictions as they felt this zone should be divided with half having no time limit for all day use and the other half having a two hour limit. He said they strongly recommended that all of these ' zones be signed establishing a time zone if the parking meters wexe re- ; moved or covered to fully inform the citizens. He then reviewed the total co.ohated costs for no-pay parking covering .. removal of the parking met,and the base,hooding the meters,removing I • the meter heads only and covering the meters with adhesive labels. . He said the TAC recommends that the trial,riod of no-pay parking in ". the downtown area be;extended until April 1970 to implement a full year • • which would coVer the extremely busy period of the Christmas season. .• • ' Their recomendation was strictly contingent on the COuncil finding a • .• source of revenue to off-set the parking meter revenue in connection with the Evarpark garage. 11 .1 Ni n=ARn =a : CR AR .. •i.•