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Report To: General Government Committee
Date of Meeting: January 4, 2016 n
Report Number: EGD-002-16 `�-�50�� \'0fv o��6 e\\o
File Number: By-law Number:
Report Subject: Orono Parking Study Update
Recommendations:
1. That Report EGD-002-16 be received;
2. That agreements between business owners be formalized to provide off-street private
shared parking for employees as well as patrons and customers where possible;
3. That the Municipality continue to provide parking enforcement to assist with long term
parking violators; and
4. That the Orono Downtown Business Improvement Area board of directors, the Orono
Community Improvement Plan committee members and other interested stakeholders be
advised of the parking study update results.
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Report Overview
At Council's request in May of 2015, staff completed an updated parking study in
downtown Orono this year to examine the existing parking supply and demand for
parking facilities that primarily serve retail, commercial and institutional land uses in the
commercial core of Orono. This report discusses the findings of the parking study and
suggests options for improving parking in downtown Orono.
1 .0 Background
1.1 At the May 4, 2015 meeting Council requested that a parking study in downtown
Orono be updated. As a result, Engineering Services proceeded to undertake a
review of the situation and initiated updated parking counts for the area.
1.2 The purpose of this update was to examine the existing parking supply and
demand for parking facilities that primarily serve retail, commercial, and
institutional land uses in the commercial core of Orono.
Key issues considered were related to:
• the location and supply of parking
• current parking standards and policies
For the purposes of this update, the Study Area was defined based on previous
study limits and is generally associated with available on-street parking between
5270 and 5367 Main Street, Park and Centreview Streets between Main Street
and Church Street and Church Street between Park Street and Centreview Street.
A copy of the map showing the study area and on-street parking arrangements is
provided on Attachment 1. As a basis for organizing parking data, the Study Area
has been divided into 5 areas representing on-street parking on each of the streets
in the area.
1.3 Updated parking data was collected on Monday, August 10, 2015 and Thursday,
October 8, 2015. It should be noted that the Orono Bakery was closed for summer
holidays during our August 10 collection date. As a result the second count date
later that week was postponed until the fall to ensure the bakery was open and we
were avoiding the times around the Orono Fair.
2.0 Approach
2.1 An initial inventory of the on-street public parking facilities was conducted prior to
the data collection update in which parking regulations and restrictions were
confirmed including availability of designated accessible on-street parking spots.
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3.0 Data Collection
3.1 Parking Surveys
Parking surveys were conducted within the Study Area during typical weekdays by
Clarington Staff as follows:
• Monday, August 10, 2015, 11:00 am to 4:30 pm
• Thursday, October 8, 2015, 10:45 am to 5:00 pm
The survey days were selected to reflect days with typical parking demand and
were carried out following specified routes and methodology.
3.2 On-Street Parking
The data collection route for on-street parking was designed to allow data to be
acquired at any given location in 15-minute intervals. The data collected includes:
• parking occupancy and accumulation counts (number of vehicles parked by
time of day)
• duration (length of time parked)
• turnover (number of different vehicles parked per space)
4.0 Analysis — Parking Demand and Supply
4.1 The results of the survey established that there are a total of 60 on-street parking
spaces which included 2 accessible spaces on the west side of Main Street
available within the Study Area.
5.0 Conclusions and Recommendations
5.1 The Orono Parking Study Update provides key benchmark information on parking
in the downtown core area of Orono and includes a detailed inventory of parking
demand characteristics for typical conditions in Orono. Conclusions from a review
of the updated data showed in general, parking demand displayed the following
characteristics:
• The west side of Main Street was the most utilized area for parking with an
average of just over 4 spaces or 25% of parking available during the data
collection period
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• Demand peaks at 77% utilization (or 23% available) between 12:30pm and
1:OOpm for the data collection period
• Parking duration and turnover characteristics indicate that the prime on-
street parking spaces exist on Mill Street and are being used properly for
short-term parking (90% of use is less than one hour) and overall 88% of
the parking is less than an hour for the study area.
o Park Street had the worst case of extended parking with 2 out of
the 6 spaces being occupied for more than 3 hours
0 10% (34) of vehicles were parked between 1 and 3 hours
o Overall parking supply in the Orono Downtown core is adequate
to meet existing demand.
These findings are consistent with previous study findings which date back to the
early eighties and have been revisited several times between now and then.
Since the original studies have been conducted the parking arrangement on
Church Street has been switched from the west to the east side resulting in five
additional spaces in the downtown.
The recommendations of the Study are based on both a quantitative and
qualitative analysis of existing parking supply and demand characteristics and
include the following:
1. Formalize agreements between business owners to provide off-street private
shared parking for employees as well as patrons and customers where
possible to increase on-street parking availability.
2. Continue to provide parking enforcement to assist with long term parking
violators.
3. Adequate on-street parking is available to meet the demands of the downtown
and no further action is required at this time to provide additional parking.
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6.0 Strategic Plan Application
Not applicable.
Submitted b ✓ � ��' �`
Y Reviewed by:
Anthony S. Cannella, C.E.T. Franklin Wu,
Director of Engineering Services Chief Administrative Officer
Staff Contact: Ron Albright, Assistant Director, Engineering Services, 905-623-3379 ext.
2305 or ralbright@clarington.net
Attachments:
List of interested parties to be notified of Council's decision is on file in the Engineering
Services Department.
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