Community Meeting. June 12, 2013

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1 Community Meeting June 12, 2013

2 USF welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively with our neighbors to develop mutually acceptable solutions

3 What our neighbors have said the university administration and community members to take immediate, short-term, and long-term steps to alleviate the impact of car trips and parking generated by activities at USF letter 6/5/13 What does USF do now to prevent students from bringing cars? What specifically will USF do to improve parking in September?

4 USF Planning Process and Traffic Management Institutional Master Plan present UTA Settlement Agreement: Traffic, Parking, Behavior, Noise, Construction 66 obligations: 50 complete; 7 in progress; 8 TBD, 1 mtg cancelled/ mutually agreed Traffic studies: Fehr & Peers Traffic Consultants Traffic Impact Study, Traffic Calming, TDM Collaborative: Community Meetings, Committee meetings, working sessions.

5 Beyond the letter of agreements:! Over 60 meetings in 2 ½ years on traffic calming and master plan development (small groups, committees & town halls) Added 3 full-time staff to manage delivery/vendor traffic, offcampus housing and community relations, neighborhood planning of IMP Developed and/or expanded programs to improve student conduct & neighborhood relations. Added a neighborhood trash pick-up function up 6 students for up to 80hrs/wk.

6 Transportation Demand Management Transportation demand management is the application of strategies and policies to reduce travel demand (specifically that of single-occupancy private vehicles), or to redistribute this demand in space or in time USF has had a TDM Plan since 1980 USF IMP proposes enhancements to current TDM

7 USF Transportation Demand Management Fehr & Peers developed TDM enhancements based upon their studies in the surrounding area

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11 WALK PUBLIC TRANSIT CARPOOL DRIVE ALONE

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13 Current TDM

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16 Proposed! TDM! Enhancements!

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19 Your Questions: What does USF do now to prevent students from bringing cars?# What specifically will USF do that will produce an obvious improvement in the parking and traffic situation as of this September?

20 What does USF do now to prevent students from bringing cars?# Public Safety Brochure # Facebook Class of 2017#

21 Public Safety Brochure # Facebook Class of 2017#

22 Public Safety Brochure # Facebook Class of 2017# Fogcutter Student Handboook#

23 Public Safety Brochure # Facebook Class of 2017# Fogcutter Student Handboook# Housing Website#

24 What does USF do now to prevent # students from bringing cars?#

25 What does USF do now to encourage alternative transportation? MUNI FastPass provided to all undergrads FastPass extended to grad students (2012-ongoing) ZipCar has 600 student subscribers ZimRide (expanded over the last 2 years) New Intern Positions (2): To create alternative transportation campaigns and advise/market to off campus student populations

26 How effective is USF s current TDM program compared to other colleges and universities?

27 USF Transportation Demand Management USF Drive Alone Rate 1980: 78% USF Drive Alone Rate 2011: 31% 47% Student drive alone rate: 26%

28 UNIVERSITY # Parking Spaces % living on campus Drive Alone Rate Claremont Chapman Dominican Univ. of Portland Seattle Univ. Stanford UCSF USF 4,700 95% 98% 3,400 33% 63% % Not tracked % 73% n/avl 25% 37% n/avl 96% 36% 4880 < 10% 36% % 31%

29 What specifically will USF do that will produce an obvious improvement in the parking and traffic situation as of this September? 1) Eliminate PAN system for one year (test) creating more flexibility in parking for those with permits. 2) Parking permit prices will increase 3) Expand ZipCar (trial on weekends first with weekday expansion after trial) 4) Expand Marketing discourage cars in Welcome Guide 14, FAQs, Send-Offs

30 What specifically will USF do that will produce an obvious improvement in the parking and traffic situation as of this September? 4) Expand Marketing discourage cars in Welcome Guide 14, FAQs, Send-Offs 5) Pay the yearly registration fee for undergraduates Zipcar membership 6) Have continuing students register license plates along with off- campus housing address 7) New survey to determine impact of past two years improvements

31 What specifically will USF do that will produce an ob vious improvement in the parking and traffic situation as of this September? 8) Place in budgeting process the bicycle shelter and work with City orgs to apply for grant. 9) Implement iparq system s year-long integration 10) With new survey and registration data, establish a task-force to determine feasibility of potential shuttle. 11) Expanding Commuter Checks transit subsidy to include parttime faculty

32 Possible neighborhood solutions

33 Possible neighborhood solutions No overnight parking (2am-6am) on adjacent streets Possible prevention of zip code from receiving L permits Revisit 2-hour RPP time limitation (data supported) Work with USF and City to improve MUNI service

34 Moving forward We have some ideas and possible solutions Letter 6/5/13

35 Moving forward USF welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively with our neighbors to develop mutually acceptable solutions

36 Questions, Conversations, Comments

37 Community Meeting June 12, 2013