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