HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-01107 - Chapter 172 Parking Requirements (Amendment) (12)
Ramirez, Jonathan
From:Katharine Shirley <shirleykatharine8@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:07 PM
To:Agenda Item Comment
Cc:Wiederkehr, Mike; Moore, Sarah
Subject:Public Comment - B.1 172.05 Parking Requirements (A)(2) (amendment)
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Hello City Council Members,
My name is Kate Shirley, I am a resident of Ward 2 and a member of the city's Urban Forestry Advisory Board.
I'm writing to you to address my concerns on tonight's agenda item B.1 - Amendments to our
residential parking requirement reductions.
I appreciate all of the effort that went into workshopping this ordinance. Notably, I think that scaling caps of
parking reductions based on development size to mitigate large impacts is a very smart way to manage the
massive impact that development can bring to a neighborhood. However, the new scaled systems still lowers
the by-right reductions for the small and mid-sized developments we all want to see more of in our city, and the
restrictions for meeting the transit-based parking reduction are too limiting to be realistic.
Ultimately, I feel that overall the amendments to our current code are too restrictive, and cannot support them.
City Plan 2040 laid out the goal of making Fayetteville a less car-dependent city, and reducing parking is a
chief component of that. This amendment would move us away from that goal, and we cannot afford to set up
new obstacles for ourselves as we are currently in a period of huge growth and potential for our city. In
addition, creating further restrictions and requirements to housing development is not productive when we
need to rapidly increase our housing stock to respond to our current affordability crisis.
Shifting our infrastructure away from car-dependency does not come without growing pains, and I am
sympathetic to all Fayetteville residents affected by those and the City Council's efforts to hear and respond to
resident's concerns. But ultimately, reducing parking is a crucial goal that is in the best interest of all people of
Fayetteville and so important for building the future of our city. I truly believe that the best way to respond to
resident's concerns about parking and traffic is to rapidly develop our multimodal transit infrastructure,
making these concerns about cars obsolete.
Thank you for your time!
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Kate Shirley | 409-291-1257
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