Solving Jackson’s downtown parking problems may require the addition of a dedicated parking manager on staff. An ad hoc committee from the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce presented a draft Downtown Parking Plan to the Council in a workshop on July 15th for consideration of adoption by resolution. At that workshop, the Council accepted the plan, but also requested that staff provide more details on the staffing impacts, costs, and timing of each short-term action item.
In addition, the Council wanted staff to provide additional logistical details on the possibility of implementing paid parking and a residential parking permit program by the summer of 2020. In response, staff provided an implementation table that tries to summarize the desired information.
Planning staff met directly with the many Town departments that would be required to implement the action items and so would be most impacted by the changes, including Police, Town Manager, Public Works, Town Attorney, Pathways, Finance, and Court.
A primary conclusion from staff’s analysis is that while no individual short-term item likely requires a new full time employee, the cumulative increase in staff time over many different departments that are already at capacity leads us to believe that the best (and perhaps only) way to fully implement the Plan is to hire a Parking Manager.
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