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Page 1 of 2 COREY Kurt A From: MEDLIN Johnny R Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:11 PM To: BEALS Bob (UO); MEDLIN Johnny R Cc: COREY Kurt A Subject: Parking Hi Bob, Thinking about our conversation of yesterday and your question regarding if other City lots could be made available to the University for parking I think I've a few ideas. Some of these I've talked to Steve McBride of U of O Athletics about in the past and some might be new. I think a few ideas already floated: We have the on-grass overtlow parking area east of the shelters in Alton Baker Park (ABP). We rent this area out in the summer for major events and I'm sure we could do the same for the University. The catch to this is that this lot becomes unusable after about the second major rain of the fall and remains so until it dries out well in the spring. Typically this would mean it could only be used between July 1 st and October 1 st. The area on Leo Harris Parkway was rented by the University but that agreement has expired. This could be renewed. This not having been the subject of a council vote would be a staff administrative action to renew that lease. The city-owned paved lot that is also used by the Science Factory (SF). This is the lot that previously the city waived fees in favor of thoSe funds going to the Science Factory. Since it is a required part of the TDM I'm assuming you desire to continue using this lot. I believe everyone knew that the Universiry was not going to be paying the Science Factory for use of that Ciry owned lot forever, but I still support the idea of a 3-5 year phased reduction to zero of that funding to the SF. It was never my understanding that the University was going to get the use of that lot for free after the agreement with the SF expired, so my thought was establishing a fixed annual amount with the SF getting 100% and the City 0% this year. Then transitioning the Science Factory out over five years. So....... year 2= 80°/a to SF and the City 20% year 3= 60% to SF and the City 40% year 4= 40% to SF and the City 60°/a year 5= 20% to SF and the City 80% Thereafter the University could deal with SF on the basis of there being forced to close on game days and that direct loss of revenue. All other parking lot rental would go to the City/ A few thoughts that we haven't discussed in depth: We lease out at $10 per parking spot who out of the three bays of parking at the main paved ABP lot on a first come first serve basis on each game day. This amounts to about 175 spaces. Instead of leasing these out to the general public we could lease these to the Universiry. The third bay at the main ABP lot (another 75 spaces) we reserve for non-game related park users and is a use we would want to continue. Once the restoration (lot 8) is completed we will still have a small gravel lot of about 30 spaces. When funds become available we will landscape and pave this small parking lot as required by the East ABP Plan. I would think there might be a couple options here. City staff could manage the parking as we do in the main ABP lot, or perhaps we could do an annual lease or annual use permit for the University to use these remaining spots on game days. I think a multi-year agreement might be more problematic in light past Council action. We would want to see this parking closed to park users only during the time that Leo Harris is closed if you continue doing those closures. Otherwise this is the designated 7/ 17/2008