The discussion mentions the city's parks department in the context of managing high parking demand during summer events, rather than focusing on the actual management or conservation of green spaces. The city's parking team is collaborating with the parks team to track event attendance, understand visitor behavior, and use real-time data to mitigate vehicle congestion. Ultimately, this coordination aims to improve wayfinding and direct visitors to available parking when they visit local public spaces like Esther Short Park and the waterfront.
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City Center Redevelopment Authority · May 21, 2026 · 1:24:53–1:25:11 · Watch on CVTV ↗
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1:23:53 That of course relates to pillar one, which is how best do we use the on-street parking. Big topic. Exciting evolution. >> Yeah, and our approach on this has been to work with, and Ann's working with these folks directly, is to work with the private parking owners that want to work with us and then work our way out. But we've found some fantastic partners right away, and like she mentioned, the Waterford parking garages want, they need more utilization, so they're very willing to work with us. So over time, we hope to build on this, and if you think about downtown geographically, it would be nice to have, could we get a couple lots over here that we're working with so that we're not, like right now it's really focused right downtown, but that's still where
1:24:44 the most conflict happens, and we are part of what has happened because of the ambition of our parking plan is that Ann is now collaborating with our parks team, and we track all the events. And so we are, starting this weekend, we are going to be, like every summer is historically high usage, so we would expect to have more visitors at events this summer than we had last summer, and that's all, most of them are parking somewhere because we don't have a good mode split yet, but we are actively working to both help those event organizers get people the right information on parking and see if we can avoid a lot of these conflicts, but then real time, look at the data, because we now have data on utilization, we have much better data than we've ever had, and so we can then kind of in real time see, okay, that
1:25:42 created this issue or that issue. So we're just a lot more sophisticated about it now in terms of just understanding what people's behaviors are, and the more of the private parking we get online, the better able we're going to be able to resolve all that. It's a fascinating real time, I know it's a bane, but it's also, it ends up being kind of a fascinating thing to be working on because it's just, you have all these different levers
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