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x~ <br />• <br />I. PARKING POLICIES <br />A. GENERAL <br />The City's parking philosophy is to provide a safe, orderly, and, <br />when possible, convenient parking environment for residents, trade <br />and visitors within the city, while keeping the streets primarily <br />for safe and efficient traffic flow. <br />B. SPECIFIC <br />1. Maintain the streets primarily for safe and efficient traffic <br />flow. <br />2. Maintain the residential character of the City°s neighborhoods <br />and the 'small-scale' or 'village' character of the overall <br />City by attempting to alleviate parking conflicts between <br />residential neighborhoods and non-residential uses when they <br />appear; and by utilizing complementary new parking facilities <br />when they are necessary. <br />3. Encourage property owners to accommodate parking demands <br />generated by the property particularly redevelopment and <br />• new development, by enforcing the parking requirements in <br />the zoning code and working with property owners, residents <br />and/or proprietors when parking problems develop. <br />4. Cover the cost of parking administration and enforcement <br />by charging fees to the individuals for these services, whenever <br />possible. <br />5. Adopt temporary parking restrictions when necessary to accommodate <br />the Minnesota State Fair and other special circumstances. <br />6. Consider a variety of on street and off street parking solutions <br />to parking problems including posting restrictions, permit <br />parking, shared parking, parking lots, parking ramps, and <br />re-routing traffic. The simplest solution shall be selected. <br />7. Select the most efficient and least disruptive solution to <br />a par'.~cing problem. <br />II. PROC~iIRES FOR HADIDLING PARKING P1~BLEMS <br />A. ORIGINATION <br />Parking problems arise when parking demands conflict with fixed <br />amounts of available on and off street parking to produce an <br />• unsafe and/or inconvenient parking situation. <br />~- /Z-fin <br />