Sorry Center St union employees, no more driving to work

Trimet is discriminating against its employees by prohibiting them from parking around Center St garage.

                       

T R I@MET

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Proposed Permit Parking

for streets near TriMet Operations/Maintenance Buildings in Brooklyn

Community meeting

                                                          Monday, January 13, 7-8 p.m.                        r-

Sacred Heart Villa Community Room, 3911 SE Milwaukie Ave.
(at Center Street)

               

For the past several months, TriMet and the
Brooklyn Action Corps (BAC) have been
exploring options for minimizing TriMet employee
parking on residential streets, which has long
been a concern of the neighborhood .

In connection with light rail construction and the
remodeLof TriMet's Operations headquarters
building at SE 17th Avenue and Center Street,
.Trilvlet built a new parking lot east of 17th Ave
(behind PGE), and is currently reconfiguring its
remaining parking lots on 17th Avenue. When
construction is complete, there will be fewer
employees and more parking spaces than before
construction, and TriMet will increase its efforts to
encourage its employees to use transit, carpool,
bike or walk to work.

Even with these efforts, estimates suggest that there could be some
continued employee parking spillover into the neighborhood, unless
discouraged with further measures.

The most effective means of prohibiting employees from parking in front of
people's houses is to regulate parking with a permit program administered
by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). TriMet is offering to
subsidize parking permits for residents enrolled in the proposed permit
program through October 2015, when light rail will be running and.
employees have more transportation options. (Light rail service begins in
September 2015.)

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What?

·        Parking would be restricted to two hours total duration within the zone
except by permit, effective 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday (except
holidays). This time span will best block employee parking in the
neighborhood.

·        Only residents and businesses in the zone would be eligible for permits.

TriMet will not purchase permits for its employees, but other businesses,
including Winterhaven School, may purchase permits for their
employees.

·        Each permit must be associated with both a licensed vehicle and an
address within the zone.

·        Permits would be purchased from PBOT:

o       Annual permit (currently $60/year; likely $5 increase next year)

oOne-day permits for visitors and guests ($10 for a book of ten)
• Limited permit fees for residents would be paid by TriMet:

o       One annual permit effective March 2014-0ctober 2014

o       One renewal of that permit effective November 2014-0ctober
2015

o       One book of 1 0 one-day permits

o       If the Brooklyn neighborhood desires to continue the program
after October 2015, fees for permits effective after October
2015 would be paid by the resident. (Beginning in September
2015, light rail service will provide more transportation options
for employees.)

Where?

·        15th and 16th avenues between Bush Street and Holgate Boulevard

·        Center Street between 14th and 17th aven ues

·        Mall and Boise streets between 15th and 17th avenues

When?

·        If approved, parking regulation would begin in March 2014, when nearly
160 TriMet employees return to the remodeled Center Street building.

·        Permitrenewals would be available each November.

How?

·        The zone win be created after a vote by affected residents and
businesses: 40 of ballots must be returned, and more than 50 of
those ballots must be in favor of the program.

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