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August 12, 2019 <br />TO: Eugene City Manager <br />RE: Ferry Street Manor MUPTE Minority Report/Parking <br />FROM: Bill Aspegren <br />At Large Neighborhood Member, Eugene MUPTE Review Panel <br />I voted against awarding the Ferry Street Manor project a Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE) <br />because it did not meet the off-street parking standards for the West University Neighborhood. <br />The applicant planned to reduce parking for the combined complex of Ferry Street Manor and Eugene <br />Manor by 50%. This left 62 spaces for 123 dwelling units. The project, in its location, is not viable with <br />this reduced level of off-street parking. <br />The Institute of Traffic Engineers1 (ITE) has a graph that shows parking demand vs. dwelling units for a <br />building like Ferry Street Manor (Exhibit A). From that graph the average peak period parking demand is <br />1.20 vehicles per dwelling unit. This seems excessive for this development given it is walkable, near <br />transit, downtown and UO and 70% of the apartments are studios. Subtracting a standard deviation (.42, <br />from ITE graph) should be enough to take this into account. The following table compares various <br />options. <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene Parking Requirements Compared to ITE Recommendations <br />And Ferry Street Manor Request <br />Option Number of <br />Dwelling Units <br />Times Parking <br />Factor <br />Total <br />Spaces <br />Eugene Parking Requirements 123 0.75 93 <br />ITE Recommended Spaces Per Dwelling Unit 123 1.20 148 <br />ITE Rec Less a 0.42 Std Deviation 123 0.78 96 <br />ITE Rec Low Range Vehicles Per Dwelling 123 0.66 81 <br />Ferry Street Manor Requested Parking 123 0.50 62 <br /> <br />The above comparisons show that the planned 62 off-street parking spaces are well below even the <br />lowest range determined from ITE surveys. The standard Eugene discount of 25% (.75 factor) is a <br />reasonable option, to the extent it applies to all 123 units. Further reduction is hard to justify for a <br />residential development. <br /> <br />Residents won’t need cars? <br /> <br />To justify the reduction the argument can be made that the Ferry Street/Eugene Manor complex is <br />walkable, near public transportation and bicycling and therefore, residents will not need or have cars. <br />Eugene code already gives a 25% reduction as a right of development. Based on the ITE information, <br />Eugene’s standard reduction is enough to take these factors into account. <br /> <br />1 Information supplied by the Institute of Traffic Engineers is a standard used in Eugene Code for adjustments and <br />other traffic and parking analysis. <br />September 11, 2019, Work Session – Item 1