146th St.
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only patrons to use 146th Street
for parking. Econolodge, which
also sits between 145th and 146th
streets on Coastal Highway,
sends their guests and employees
to that area to park when the ho-
tel's own lot becomes full. Once
the paid parking is installed, pa-
trons will have to pay $25.50 to
park there from 7 a.m. to midnight
per day.
with the help of available spaces
on 145th and 146th. Some of our
residents must park on 145th or
146th because there are not suffi-
cient spaces in our lot. There may
be empty spaces, but they can
only be used for the unit they cor-
respond to," Deacon said.
tions, not supported by facts and
hard data and therefore incorrect.
He had asked City Clerk Kelly All-
mond to send him a cost benefit
analysis and criteria used to select
streets for paid parking, and
received projected revenue num-
bers but not an analysis of alterna-
tives, leading to his assumption
there is none.
est grievance with the council was
the decision was made without
consulting with Ocean Place con-
do owners first and felt it was not
a transparent decision.
revenue and believe there are
ways of obtaining revenue through
paid parking without treating resi-
dents unfairly. He asked the council
potential parking in a rational and
comprehensive way, setting criteria
for measuring success in both the
amount of revenue collected and
fairness, to come up with a master
plan for parking in Ocean City.
position of paid parking on any
streets is that a committee is form-
ed and that they come up with a
master plan and substantial way
forward that includes the people,
and include the stakeholders that
you see," Feen said.
Mayor Rick Meehan form a park-
ing committee while the city has a
parking feasibility study and a
cross benefit analysis conducted
to create a master plan for parking
in Ocean City.
everybody upset, I just don't see
it," Ashley said.
parking has always been a hot
topic in Ocean City, but the pro-
posal to conduct a study is a cost-
ly proposition.
install paid parking on the propos-
ed streets is postponed that will be
at least a $115,000 hole in the fis-
cal year 2014 budget, which was
up for first reading later on the a-
genda that evening. Meters at
146th Street alone will bring an es-
timated $24,000 in new revenue.
man are asking for doesn't come
out of a committee," Mitrecic said.
"It comes out of a parking study
done by an independent contractor
that somebody has to pay."
the city pays $4 million a year for
Ocean City's beach.
everybody that lives across the
bridges doesn't pay Ocean City
taxes, comes into the town and
uses the beach for free," Dare
said. "The parking meters are a
way for them to participate in what
they're enjoying."
was also chosen to have paid park-
ing and has similar characteristics,
such as both have paid parking to
the north and both streets have
residential development to the
south with required parking.
ther than just a committee," Mayor
Rick Meehan interjected. "My sug-
gestion would be to remand this to
the city manager, have him meet
with the staff ... and figure out ex-
actly what it is we need to do."
to proceed to hire a consultant
over the matter than the city would
begin a RFP process at that time.
council voted unanimously to ap-
prove.
City Council to establish paid
parking on the east side of the
Public Safety Building parking lot
between 65th and 66th streets
from 5 p.m.-7 a.m. on Monday
through Friday, except for holidays
and all Saturdays and Sundays.
The ordinance also added meters
to the City Hall parking lot from 5
p.m.-7 a.m. on Monday through
Friday, except on holidays and all
Saturdays and Sundays. Addition-
ally, the meters will be added from
7 a.m.-midnight on the west side
of Philadelphia Avenue between
North Division and South 1st
streets, 49th Street on the ocean
block, 131st Street between Coas-
tal Highway and Sinepuxent Ave-
nue and 146th Street on the
ocean block.
Ashley and Pillas opposed.