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- l/ RESIDENTIAL PREFERENTIAL PARKING PROGRAMS A section f the Fairmount Neighborhood Area experiences a daily influx of mostly Universit bound commuters who find convenient on-street parking available to them. This practice is at the expense of the Neighborhood's residents and their gue is who find daytime parking to be scarce at best. Although o person can be denied use of our public streets for legal parking wherever t is made available, strategies may be employed that discourage inappropr ate uses. The Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) program has proven to be an effective means at controlling parking on neighborhood streets. RPP contr lled streets give a priority to the residents and their guests by exempting them from the posted parking time limits that commuters must obey. The goals of an RPP program are to: * Redu a all-day on-street parking congestion by commuters; * Incr ase neighborhood traffic/pedestrian safety by diverting non- ' resi ential activities to the surrounding arterial street network; and * Redi ect all-day commuter parking to off-street storage facilities, coup ed with encouraging alternative transportation modes where possible. b~ f k~ ~'rf~ A program established in the Fairmount Neighborhood would me~s~-a-i-I~-be the "Zone A" RPP program already established in the South Univer- city Neig boyhood Area. Sign controls are done on a blockface-by-blockface basis wit a majority vote of those property owners and tenants directly affected equired for including or removing any block side. Commuters would be limite to two-hour parking Monday through Friday, except holidays, with enforceme t hours being from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Residents and their guests are exemp ed from these restrictions with proper display of their current RPP permit an should expect to find ~nvenient parking at any time. Currently participating "ZONE A" resid~s pay an annual fee of $15.00 for their veh cle's bumper permit and ~.l.rA~ for any others registered to them or their fam ly. Daily dashboard guest permits are available for free and can be picked up in advance and validated when needed. All transactions take place in person at the City of Eugene's Permit & Information Center, 244 E Broadway. Annually, a resident must provide picture I.D. and proof of both residence and of vehicu ar ownership in order to benefit from the neighborhood RPP program. RPP progr ms involve a joint effort by the city and the residents acting through t eir neighborhood group. The neighborhood determines the scope of the proje t and the city facilitates it's implementation and on-going main- tenance. Since suc a program focuses on only a portion of the city's population, the cost for uch a program cannot be derived from the city's general fund; it must be b me by those directly benefiting from it's existence. Like Eugene's other two RPP programs south and west of the University, any citation revenues generated within the zone (along with permit fees) are applied to that zone's account t defray costs.