California Public Parking Association

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City of San Leandro
ParkSL
2018 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

The City of San Leandro (ParkSL) parking program is being recognized for the state-of-the-art and cost-effective approach to parking management. After adopting a Downtown Parking Management Plan in 2017, the City needed to implement a plan with new regulations, rates, technology improvements, permitting and payment systems.

City of West Hollywood
Automated Garage
2017 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

The City of West Hollywood had a 68-space surface parking lot not adequate to serve the visitors and staff. The solution; a stand-alone, above grade, automated vehicle storage and retrieval system (AVSRS), with a footprint 40% smaller than a conventional garage. The fully automated parking system accommodates 200 cars, utilizes computer controlled motorized lifts, conveyors and shuttles to transport passenger cars to and from the entrance to a parking space – all within 90 seconds.

Los Angeles Metro
Supportive Transit Parking Program
2017 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

The Program’s goal was to develop a program that ensured parking resources for transit patrons using a fee based model and innovative solution to control parking demand. Our main objective was to make sure no significant increase in commute time to the patron and increased availability of parking spaces.

SacPark® City of Sacramento
2016 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

In 2012, Sacramento City Council passed a motion directing the Parking Services Division directing staff to pursue parking modernization through technology, rate enhancements, expansion, and legislation. In 2013, the new owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball team announced their plan to build an arena in the heart of downtown. As a result an ambitious program to modernize its operations and with additional changes to the downtown parking environment; the City’s Parking Services Division succeeded in a unified program that allows the City to meet today’s diverse demands for parking throughout the City.

UCLA's "Great Flood of 2014"
2015 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

On July 29, 2014, just before rush hour, a 93-year old city of Los Angeles 30-inch steel water main ruptured on Sunset Blvd. just 200 yards away from UCLA‘s Westwood Plaza entrance. The water created a huge sinkhole in the pavement, shooting a geyser through the roadway and flooding parts of UCLA’s north campus. It was estimated that 20-million gallons of water had been lost. Damage to five buildings, (including famed Pauley Pavilion), several athletic fields, and two parking facilities. Miraculously, there were no injuries reported on campus or in the parking structures from the flooding.

LA Express Park
2014 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

LA Express Park™ fuses technology and demand-based pricing into an innovative parking management strategy. Created as one component of the Los Angeles Congestion Reduction Demonstration with $15 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation and $3.5 million in city funds, the program uses technology to help the city realize its goals of increasing the availability of limited parking spaces, reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, and encouraging use of alternative modes of transportation. LA Express Park™ launched on May 21, 2012.

SF Park, San Francisco (SFMTA)
2013 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

Circle less, live more... SFMTA established SFpark to use new technologies and policies to improve parking in San Francisco. Reducing traffic by helping drivers find parking benefits everyone. More parking availability makes streets less congested and safer. Meters that accept credit and debit cards reduce frustration and parking citations. With SFpark, we can all circle less and live more.

City of Santa Monica Parking Program
2011 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

The City uses current technology and real-time information to keep cars moving on major boulevards and limit the impact of regional traffic on local streets. This includes a comprehensive street wayfinding system, including signs directing motorists to off-street parking and displaying real time parking availability at many public parking facilities including parking meters. Parking rates reflect the value of parking and are set to ensure that spaces are available when needed.

UC Irvine (P&TS)
2010 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

UC Irvine (P&TS) provides parking and transportation for over 37,000 students, faculty, and visitors. Since 2005, UCI increased the Vehicle Ridership program from 1.52 to a 1.9, the highest for any employer of comparable in Southern California. This program reduces congestion and improves air quality on campus and neighboring communities.

Fresno State Green Parking Lot
2007 CPPA Public Parking
Program of the Year Award

Fresno State constructed a Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Parking Structure completed in partnership with Chevron Energy Solutions that provides covered parking with a solar PV roof. The structure covers 722 parking spaces on 5.5 acres in Parking Lot V. This solar system is estimated to provide 20% of core campus power.

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Your President's Message

Colleagues,

I hope this message finds you rested and well from your Thanksgiving holiday. I enjoyed seeing so many of you in attendance during CPPA’s Virtual Conference, and I know from your emails and comments, that it was an excellent time to “regroup” and “refocus” in the midst of so much change. I’d like to thank our Conference Chair Madison Huemmer and her able and dedicated committee for their many hours of planning. Madison and her committee initially spent a lot of time planning for our annual conference to be held in San Diego but, COVID threw all of us a curveball. She and her committee quickly pivoted and put together an informative and entertaining conference with a creative and unique format. I’d also like to thank you for your participation; our CPPA Board, Directors and Representatives for their leadership over this turbulent year; and finally I thank our Committee Chairs, Committee Members, Advisory Board, Sponsors and, Affiliates. All of you (us) are unpaid volunteers who give freely of your time to make this organization relevant and impactful throughout California.

I want to take this time to congratulate Jonathan Wicks for his selection as CPPA’s Consultant Representative, and I want to congratulate Carmen Gachupin for her selection as CPPA’s Southern Director at Large. Finally, I want to thank Casey Jones for his service as CPPA’s Consultant Representative as he terms out. I am pleased to announce that Casey Jones will transition to CPPA’s Chair of Professional Development and excited about the potential he brings to our CPPA organization in the Professional Development area.

Please take care of yourselves, your families, friends & colleagues as we enter into this Holiday Season. I hope you will take a moment to find some joy and rest as we regroup and prepare for a new year.

Legislative Alert - Effective January 1, 2021

Assembly Bill 3277 was signed by Governor Newsom and takes effect on January 1, 2021. The bill makes changes to California Vehicle Code 40220 that impact the processing of payment plans.

CPPA’s legislative advocate worked with the author’s staff throughout the process and was successful in negotiating changes from the language originally introduced, to the benefit of CPPA’s members.

These changes include:

· For amounts due that are $500 or more, the monthly installment may not be more than $25. Previously this amount was $300.

· Extends the payment plan duration from 18 to 24 months.

· Changes timeframe a person may request a payment plan from 60 to 120 days.

· Clarifies requirements for information to be posted on an agency’s website.

The Bill did not change the payment plan requirements for CSU or Community College campuses.

The full text of the bill can be found here (link to https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3277&showamends=false)

CPPA is not providing legal advice with this message and encourages our membership to contact their legal counsel for a specific interpretation of the Code.

Message From Your CPPA President

First and most importantly, I know that COVID-19 is having a profound effect on all of us, both personally and professionally, I sincerely hope that this note finds you and yours well. I want you to know that your CPPA Board has been busy since the last time I wrote to you. Since that writing, we have canceled our in-person conference and have endeavored to put together a strong program for your 2020 CPPA Virtual Conference, “California on the Move.” Your CPPA Board reimagined the conference experience - we brainstormed, we listened to your feedback and, we put together what I believe to be a creative conference experience. Many of you, and many of your employees have been working from home, away from your colleagues and friends. I encourage you to register and reconnect with us, your parking colleagues and friends, in what we believe will be a fun and informative virtual event.

See you soon and until then, be well.

Select DMV Field Offices Reopen to Public

DMV opens 25 facilities to serve customers with appointments and transactions that must be done in person. For more information, visit https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/newsrel/2020/2020_19

The California Department of Motor Vehicles reopened select field offices across the state on Friday, May 8, to assist customers with appointments and with transactions that require an in-person visit to a field office during the COVID-19 pandemic. The DMV continues to encourage customers to use online services, its expanded virtual services and other service channels to complete transactions, including driver license and vehicle registration renewals.

Message from your CPPA President

Parking Colleagues,

It was a real pleasure to speak to and hear from so many of you during the recent online CPPA ShopTalks. Kudos to both Jonathan Wicks and Casey Jones for their excellent facilitation during the online ShopTalks, and Kudos to you for sharing your creative responses to the COVID-19 challenges. I’m also appreciative of your CPPA Board who came together quickly to put together a solution to enable these ShopTalks to happen – your Board is a creative and can-do team, like you, our CPPA membership.

My personal experience over the past 90 days or so has been, like yours, challenging and filled with highs and a few lows as the reality of the enormity of this COVID-19 event sinks in. As my University prepares to graduate students virtually, I’m hopeful as I see signs of California opening up again.

Until we’re open again, know that your CPPA Board is working on new online sessions and I encourage you to stay in touch, check out the CPPA Website and let us know how we can help you.

Take care and I look forward to seeing you at our next online event!

Legislative Update

Both the California State Assembly and Senate have returned to the Capitol. While the Legislature has held a handful of Budget Committee hearings during the nearly two-month hiatus, other legislation and hearings are now beginning to move forward. The House will be operating under some extraordinary rules and precautions, including holding Committee hearings on the Assembly Floor itself.

The number of Committee hearings has been truncated and the focus will likely remain on critical priorities and COVID-related items, with other priorities tabled for the year, although we’re still seeing a diverse mix of bills being scheduled for Committee hearing.

CPPA has engaged with the Author and sponsors of AB 3277 regarding citation payment plans and we are actively monitoring a number of other bills.

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