Senior Advisory Commission - Regular Meeting

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Chair Albert Gonzalez?

Present.

Vice chair Karen Hardy? Present. Council member Seth Jain?

Here. We have quorum.

Alright. So we don't have any consent items today. So we want a public presentation. So is anybody from the public who wants to speak? Please come to the mic. Hi there. Okay. Nobody? Alright. And we'll have a we're gonna have a presentation here, second item on on the agenda. So there'll be an opportunity to speak as at that time as well. Moving on to our general business. Item one is the approval of the 12/15/2025 Stadium Neighborhood Relations Ad Hoc Subcommittee. Minutes.

Chair. I had a correction to the minutes. The minutes list four council members being present. Raj Chaw was not here, so that's the only correction to the minutes.

I was gonna do the same thing. So Is

there a second? Yes. I'll second that.

Alright. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? So motion carries. Now move on to item two, which is a report from this neighborhood neighborhood action subcommittee report that staff is gonna be presenting.

Thank you, chair Gonzales. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for attending our very second neighborhood stadium neighborhood relations ad hoc subcommittee. So thanks thank you to those that are attending for the first time. Thank you for those that are coming back. We are gonna get started tonight. I did wanna go around the room just in case there's new people in the audience and just do an introduction of staff tonight. We're gonna go into the presentation, and then we will, start the presentation. So I will turn it over to the city manager.

Hi, Javon Grogan, city manager, And in this context, also support the stadium as well. And I'll turn it to our, illustrious chief down on the end.

Hello, everybody. Corey Morgan, chief of police.

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Green green means go. Hello, everybody. Chief of police, Corey Morgan. Thank you all.

And then if we could have staff starting with Craig Mobach.

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if we can make sure to use the microphone. Otherwise, people on the Zoom can't hear you.

Craig Moback, director of public works.

The Mike Lou, assistant director of public works.

Hi, everyone. Christine Jung, deputy city manager.

Richard Fitting, Santa Clara Police Department captain of special operations.

Good afternoon, sergeant RJ Otico. I oversee community community response team and the neighborhood protection detail. Good evening, sergeant Maxine Alepko with the police department. I work in the special operations with captain Fitting, and I oversee the exterior of the stadium on event

Hi, lieutenant Eric Enos. I'm, with the special operation division as well. Operate as a deputy incident commander on Aventis.

Hello. I'm David Knight. I'm the communications manager with the city manager's office.

Hi. I'm Janine Dela Vega. I'm the director of communications for the city.

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tonight's meeting will be going over re opening remarks for tonight's meeting, provide a recap of the first committee meeting that we had on December 15, provide the com the community a recap of all of the Super Bowl LX efforts that occurred from public safety efforts to Department of Public Works and our communications team. Staff will also be presenting an overview of the structure of how Levi's Stadium is owned, operated and maintained. We will go over the residential parking permit program and present a draft overlay parking program proposal and get feedback from the community. We do have a full agenda tonight, so we will be providing some portions of the presentation and then seeking feedback from the community at those times. So we ask if you could hold comments until we wrap up each section.

The subcommittee was created by the city council on November 2025. It was set up as an action driven committee focused on addressing neighborhood concerns regarding the stadium and engaging with residents and businesses impacted by stadium events. The committee provides up will be providing updates on major events like Super Bowl LX, which we did in December, and the upcoming FIFA World Cup games. We will be evaluating current outreach and communication efforts to the community and the stakeholders surrounding the stadium, and we will explore ways to strengthen engagement with those stakeholders.

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During the first committee meeting, it was very informal, and we were able to go around through all of the introduce the staff, but also introduce the community members. We had it on Monday, March 15 here in the same room, and we went over why the committee was established and the purpose of the committee, the goals that we wanted to achieve through this committee. PD provided an overview of the annual operations for the stadium events, including the neighborhood protection detail. They went over historical data that was collected from various events at the stadium, including from 2001 to 2005, we got community feedback on some of the concerns and some of the ways that the community engages regarding stadium events. And one of the main things that came out of that meeting, if you were here, was that parking was a concern for the community stakeholders.

And so later this evening, we will be going over some of those options that were discussed in the previous meeting and then the proposal of the overlay parking. I will now turn it over to our police department who will be providing public safety efforts, recap Super Bowl, then our public works department, followed by our communications team, which will be providing recaps. So without further ado, chief Morgan.

Thank you, Paulina. And we're here to listen more than we are to speak. We do wanna hear the quality of life concerns that impact you as you live near the stadium. But we will give a brief update of Super Bowl LX. And for that, I will turn it over to captain Richard Finning for that summary.

Thank you, assistant city manager Morales, and thank you, chief Morgan. I will be brief to to the chief's precise point of hearing from you. But as you know, likely know, February 8, the eyes of the world were upon us. This was a Department of Homeland Security designated special event assessment rating one, meaning the highest risk of international importance, the event that took place right here in our front yard in the city of Santa Clara. To to recap, starts with the foundation of of what we work towards and what we achieved, which was two years of interagency planning and collaboration.

The image on the bottom of the two images is our public safety steering committee structure, and I and I realize you can't see the details there. But we divided our committee structure into four divisions with approximately eight working groups, focus areas of importance per division for appropriate chain of command, unified command and planning efficiencies. Some of those working groups focus areas were things such as tactical, human trafficking, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security, etcetera. It's important to note that foundation because that that's the precise foundation we are also applying for FIFA World Cup. But the reason that I know this was successful is the training that was received and and allowed for our staff, the empowerment by leadership for folks to go out there and achieve their own necessary missions with proper expectations set.

As you see, the image at the top shows approximately 50 different agencies that we collaborated with to indeed achieve that public safety mission. We did apply a unified command structure with significant multi agency coordination, and the city of Santa Clara Police Department was the lead law enforcement agency for Super Bowl sixty. We did apply a number of different technology efforts that were extremely successful towards our public safety planning as well. We also coordinated a number of necessary road closures, transit planning efficiencies and different pedestrian safety measures as you'll hear from Director Liu shortly from Public Works. Next slide, please.

There's a there's a as this is transitioning, there's a lot that could have occurred in terms of a negative impact or, frankly, a public safety risk. We could literally my team could literally list out a thousand things that have a potential to have a negative impact on the the safety of the event and the surrounding community and you. The vast majority of those, nearly all, did not occur. And I attribute that I attribute that back to the expectation set, the training, and the empowerment for our staff to do their jobs. That first image that loaded was one of five separate briefings.

If you could go back, that'd be great. And you don't have to reload the image. You could just leave all three there. That first image was just one of five briefings, and you could see the significant amount of staff that were present. The second image there is, again, just a true testament to multiagency coordination. It's not too often that you have horses on Great America Parkway or in the city of Santa Clara. It was pretty cool. But they were there for a number of reasons, all in the interest of public safety, and they did an outstanding job. Within that image, you can see to the to the right, closer to the West side of Great America Parkway. This is actually looking south.

There's also a number of bike patrol officers. You could also see utility vehicles. This was us working to keep the community safe and allow folks to express their First Amendment and speak to the things that they wanted to speak about given the eyes of the world upon us. And then the last slide, for us, this is just our field team. For our field team to be able to do this at the end of the event is really a testament to the success of the event.

Had things gone, quote, unquote, wrong, we obviously wouldn't be doing this. But this is just a celebration of two years of planning, thousands of hours of meetings and collaboration, and, frankly, mission accomplished. Chief, anything else or team, anything else that we want to add on an SBLX debrief? We realized that there was certainly an impact to the community. We value and appreciate your understanding of that and really the importance of what this event meant for the city of Santa Clara.

We're looking to always improve in our public safety efforts, and we will apply lessons learned to our FIFA World Cup readiness and all major events at Levi's Stadium.

Perfectly stated, and and that's it from the police department.

Thank you very much, captain Fitting. We will now have Mike Lou with our assistant, public works director provide an update on the traffic and road closures.

Great. Thank you, chair and, members of the committee and then for the public for being here on the evening. So once again, Mike Lou, assistant director of public works. A pleasure to be here, and thank you, police for the presentation. Public works works hand in hand with police. So, know, you as much as, you know, with the we we help with the planning and and traffic management, you know, police is out there in the field. So kudos to them for a safe event. So I'm gonna couple I'm gonna cover a couple slides here, and this is really related to transportation and road closure. So, ultimately, roads were closed and, you know, trails were closed, and we had some detours and whatnot. So I'm gonna walk you through kinda what occurred that, for the Super Bowl.

Ultimately, was all most of those related to safety, but there were some logistical items that required road closures as well. Obviously, it's a massive event. So this is the the biggest event in the country. So there and the fan experience was a a major priority for the NFL. So that that that resulted in a pretty significant amount of work out there.

Closure did occur over three phases, and it started pretty early, so January 5. We had four types of closures, bicycle lanes, roads itself, the trail, the Santa Mas Aquino Creek Trail, our beloved trail, as well as pedestrian walkways. What's also important to note, and that's the last bullet on the slide, is we've tried to focus on local detours, so Santa Clara specific, but also realizing that this is a regional event. So there are some regional detours set up as well to help, folks coming from Sunnyvale, San Jose trying to get through the area as we're heading into the actual the Super Bowl itself. So next slide, please.

Yeah. So this first slide is gonna cover bicycle enclosures. So as you can see, these were maps that were sent out, to the media, and they were on the Bay Area Host Committee's website. I'm not gonna go through all the specifics, but to note that, obviously, the first one on the left was started January 5, and then, you know, that that basically closed, Stars And Stripes Drive, which is a detour itself for the stadium when when the same events are occurring. And then, ultimately, the next detour related to bikes occurred on January 28.

So as I mentioned earlier, it's phased over time with, you know, kind of starting with, you know, certain areas and then eventually getting to the to the event. So next slide, please. This is covering, road closures or vehicle detours. So you can see here, January 28, there were closures. And this map, if you look at it compared to the earlier one, I know you probably don't remember it, but this map kind of pulls you back out a little bit, and you can see in in the green is the regional detour.

So setting up signage in advance of, you know, folks coming from Sunnyvale that typically take Tasman to get to San Jose. We wanted to catch them early so that way they weren't meandering through our city streets. So worked with Sunnyvale as well as San Jose to really get that message out there and try to get folks to recognize that, you know, from the January 28 through Super Bowl, Tasman was going to be closed. And then, of course, vehicle closures on game day itself, which is pretty typical. Next slide, please. And then trail closures. Obviously, this is probably one of the more notable ones. Santa Masso Keno Crew Trail is a very beloved. A lot of usage out there. So it ended up where we had to close it on starting on January 29.

And then, of course, there were corresponding detours. And then as on game day itself, it also changed as well. So it stayed closed, and then we had to do other detours as other areas were closing down on game day itself. And then the next slide, please. And then pedestrian walkway detours. So as we close down Tasman on January 28, and then we we basically create detour plans, trying to get folks from where they to where they wanna go. I think what's key is that getting the message out there and then trying to provide detours. Obviously, you know, it's can be inconvenient for folks, but, you know, security was a primary concern out here, and we were able to do that. I think that's my last one. Oh, another sorry.

Another pedestrian detours. So on the twenty ninth, further detours occurring here. And then last is the actual game day itself. So over time, you know, various detours were implemented. This is in close coordination with the NFL, the stadium, the 49ers, stadium manager, as well as police department, other agencies. So a lot of meetings kinda really walking through why do we need to close it, how long, can you do better, and so there's a little bit of back and forth that occurred over time. And then next slide. Okay. And then I'm gonna turn it over to our communications team. They're gonna cover the next couple slides. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mike. Now we'll introduce Janine De La Vega, PIO. I'm actually going thank you, Paulina. I'm actually going

to just stand up and do this so I can read my slides as well. So, obviously, with everything that was happening, we wanted to make sure that we got the word out to you and amplify that communications because we know that that's obviously very important to you. So as far as the communications plan goes to to our external audience, our audiences here. Right? We focused on residents, either residents, commuters, commercial business, transit users, those using, like, ACE or the Capital Corridor or VTA, as well as those who walk and bike on those trails on the Santa Monos Santa Mos Aquino Trail, and then, of course, the game day attendees.

Here's a sample on, the right side where you can see, is a graphic that the Bay Area host committee used. This was used on one of the mailers that was sent out, during the second phase of the communications plan. If we can go to the next slide. So the communications plan went out in three different phases. You could see the different dates there.

It started as early as December 19 and then to January 23 as well. And, basically, we were getting our information from the Bay Area host committee. They put it on their website, but we knew that that wasn't going to be enough. We we know that our social media channels, had greater reach as well as our GovDelivery platform. We have 56,000 subscribers.

If you haven't signed up for our GovDelivery platform, please go to our Citi website and go to the I want to, stay informed, and, I want to know more information, and you'll be able to subscribe to all the news. You received, an email if you're subscribed to our our, city news. We also put it on our city website. It was up there under a special section that we created, for Super Bowl as well as FIFA. It's right on our home page.

And if you scroll down, you can see, any news items under that special page. We also had it on our social media, under the city of Santa Clara on Facebook, x, Instagram, and Nextdoor. It was also, amplified by Santa the Santa Clara Police Department. And as I mentioned before, the Bay Area host committee, we did encourage them to send out mailers. They went ahead and did that, and it was sent to Northside residents and businesses on January 20.

And then it was reamplified by KTVU, NBC Bay Area, KQED, CBS, Crown, ABC seven, The Chronicle, all those different news outlets that that saw all of our external communications on that. And then there's an example there of one of our social media posts about the road closures. If we could go to the next slide. Social media, as I mentioned, did play a significant, part in our communications plan. We know that we're not the only agency that was putting out information and that our our partners, within the community, especially in the transportation community, the VTA, they had different messages for commuters and residents, as well as the MTC and, many different transit apps, the VTA.

There was different messages that they had, and so what we do is they we share. We reshare their messages, and we did that, as well as, with public safety alerts. We partnered with Santa Clara County to do a message about if there's any sort of critical incident or, you know, that were to happen, during the days leading up to the Super Bowl or on Super Bowl Sunday, that you could sign up for Alert SCC. And we made sure that news release went out. We had a lot of news coverage about that.

We also, worked with the Santa Clara Fire Department to make sure that there excuse me, is that there was messaging about the pyrotechnics and all for the, you know, Bad Bunny and the halftime to make sure that residents were informed about that, letting them know what time those those were happening because there was practices leading up to that. And then the next slide. We also had physical signage, changeable messaging signs that were near Great America Parkway in Tasman, I believe, that talked about the road closures in advance. There was a frames on the bike path messaging the different closures. And then we know that the Bay Area host committee also did outreach.

They asked us how can we get in touch with, the BPAC, the bike community, the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition, and they also messaged with the transit agencies. Other distribution channels we know that were used by the Barrie Host Committee, they had a Levi's Stadium email distribution list, and then they also put it on their social media channel for Levi's Stadium. And I believe this is the last slide, David. Am I right?

Yes. It is. Okay. Thank you, Jenny. So before we move on to the next portion of the presentation, just wanted to touch base with the community and see if you guys had any comments. If I could just real do a really quick survey. How many of you received the postcard for Super Bowl? Okay. How many of you guys got the information versus the GovDelivery? Okay. Okay. So I'll turn it over to the community members. If you guys have any comments you'd like to share, please come up to the microphone. If not, we'll move on to the next portion of the presentation. Vivian, if you can come up, please.

Hi. My name is Lily Louie, and I'm a twenty almost twenty seven year resident at Mission Park. I just so happened that this time around, I wasn't here for Super Bowl day. I was traveling. But before that, like, the days leading up to Super Bowl, it was no issue in terms of security, but there was a lot of noise.

And I I know there's a lot of events, but I don't know if this is the right place to bring it up. But is there anything we can do about all the helicopters that are just hovering? I mean, I have a video footage. I'm not sure if some it is security versus news, and I think this is probably both. But they just circle around and around and around all day long.

And it just it's annoying when you're inside your house. You have all the windows closed, doors closed, and you just got this buzzing, and they fly very low. So I don't know, you know, who it is that can make something happen, but if there's something that can be done about that, that one is just very annoying. But it's not a security issue, so, you know, it's just more of an annoyance. But one thing I do wanna point out, though, is although I wasn't here for this Super Bowl, I was here for previous.

There is a big difference when there's Super Bowl versus other events, like concerts. Everybody likes to park in our neighborhood. I live right off of Cheney, and everybody wants to park there because, you know, they can walk through that little pedestrian path. And that has been a major issue. We've raised it up many times requesting that we get that closed off during event days, and that doesn't happen except for Super Bowl.

And that is the one event. Even though we got so many people there, there's no issue for our neighborhood. And I I attribute it to the fact that that pedestrian path, the one that leads from it runs along the tray the train tracks that leads out to Gionera And Wilcox. So everybody uses that. I mean, even though I've seen officer Otiko out there and parking the the police cars there, and they still drive up, do the Uber drop offs right in front of the sign that says no, you know, no Uber drop off.

They don't care. They still do it. And then the problem is they park in the neighborhood. And, you know, that's fine if they just park, but it's the things that they do along the way. You know, we wake up, and we find all the trash, all this noise, and and there's other issues like, you know, people urinating on lawns.

And then you also, you know, you just don't wanna go outside during that time because you don't know if there's gonna be fights or whatnot. But I do attribute that when that pedestrian pathway is closed, we see the issues that we see during other events. And so my request is that, is it is there any way we can keep that pathway closed when there is a a concert or other events, not just Super Bowl. So that's just what I want to raise up and give the feedback and the request.

Thank you. Thank you. And as far as the hovering, I think the for Super Bowl, there's a perimeter no fly zone, but I'm not sure if you can talk to that.

Yeah. Briefly. So the the week prior to the Super Bowl, we don't have a temporary flight restriction in place, so we don't have control of the airspace. And and I think that was primarily driven by News Atlas. It would be my guess off the top of my head was that was primarily news helicopters contributing to that noise pollution that that you heard.

As far as the junior and will Wilcox opening, so part of it being a tier one event, that higher level event, there's a there's a greater public safety need to close those avenues. That that justification isn't necessarily there for regular season 49er games or concerts. So that would be I would lean more on the discretion of the council if they would wanna close it off. But the I think the the caveat is that we'd have to answer to is that what about the folks in the neighborhood that do use that, that maybe moved to the neighborhood for the proximity of the stadium so they could have access to the stadium through that route. I think that would be the balance balance point.

But as far as public safety need, it's not necessarily there, for your your average concert.

Can we alleviate a little bit of that if people have to show ID to show that, okay, they live in the neighborhood? Just like when officers park, they they ask you, do you live here? And you're in the past, you used to show your ID or you had the little red Santa Clara sticker, then they let you through. Can we do something like that? I'm sure there's something we can figure out. Right?

My my recommendation is to institute a a residential permitted parking plan in in the area. That would alleviate it. The historical practice of checking for IDs so for for police to stop someone and essentially detain someone that we have to worry about the Fourth Amendment, and we need reasonable suspicion to stop anybody, and we need reasonable suspicion to ask for your identification or or demand your identification. We can ask, but nobody has to respond if it's a consensual encounter. So we have some there's some real Fourth Amendment considerations from our perspective as far as IDing people, making them show up papers or identification moving on a public roadway.

Right. And we and at least for Mission Park, we tried to do the residential parking permit. But the problem is you it's sort of a thing where we had to ask all the homeowners to sign and say, I want it. By default, it's no, and we have to do something to make it happen. And people just they don't even respond. You know, they don't open emails. Certainly. They just don't respond. And if you ask them some some people will say, yes. I'm for it, but they just don't wanna do anything. I mean, if there's a way we can have it done from the city, then that would be different. Right? By having the communities push for ourselves, that's the challenge.

Agreed. And you have the right people sitting in front of you that are to my right that can make that happen, before I could. Sure.

You'll have one Sure. Why don't I address that that point, and then I'll turn it over to our public works department. So a little bit later today, we will be talking about a residential parking program as well as a potential alternative to that. I will say either of those programs can either be implemented via, a community survey, and 50% plus one or unilaterally by the city council. There are pros and cons to both.

It's really a policy conversation, and we'll we'll get into that in a little bit. But one of your other comments was about closing the bike path, during regular, stadium events. And I'll have our public works department talk talk about that. I will say that that also came up at our first meeting. And there was, at that time, someone, in the in the audience from the bicycle community, and she articulated the benefit of that trail being open during, regular during regular events for bike commuters who go to the office and have to come back have to go back, home or wherever they're going.

Also, there's the the point around the detour that we put in place for Super Bowl, which was detouring individuals primarily onto Lafayette, is not something that we think can be done on a every every event basis. And I'll turn it over to Mike Lu, our, city engineer and assistant public works director.

Thank thank you, city manager. So, yeah. So just to just to make sure the community is aware, so the trail I believe the opening that, you're you're referring to as a member of the public, that is an opening that basically takes, you know, someone from the neighborhood into basically where the parking lot is for the train station and the train station itself. That is actually the detour for when the Santa Mas Aquino Creek Trail is closed during stay in event days. So I'm sure everyone's aware, but I can repeat it that Santa Mas Aquino Creek Trail is heavily used, whether it's for recreational use or during the day for folks to get to work.

We have a pretty strong bicycle community community that love that trail. So when that when the stadium was being built, there was a a lot pretty significant discussion related to closing that trail for stadium events. Ultimately, the t tour was designed to go where it is today. So when during a stadium event, this trail is closed. If you're bike if you're bicycling, you know, in the area and you wanna get to the North Side and you're on the basically, the almost to the Lafayette side of the the trail itself, then you go to the neighborhood.

I'm sure resident if live you in the neighborhood, you'd seen some signs that we have over there and then basically go through that area. So for the Super Bowl, because of the significance of the event, that was closed. So recognizing, I think, your point that, you know, the the the easy access for people dropping off or parking was removed, and then we ultimately, pushed folks onto Lafayette. Lafayette is not the best pace to bicycle. Right? So we did build some improvements out there. It was really done just for that event. I know there's definitely a push for to close it, but there's more to it than just closing it. And then, of course, our bike community is would need to be involved in any discussions related to that. So I just wanted to offer those that a little bit of background as well as kinda what happens on state of event day itself.

Thank you. Councilor Hardy?

I will say that, it was the Seattle Seahawks 49er game. Of course, we don't wanna go back and think about that. Everybody will cry. But I went a half an hour before the game and asked the gentleman at that gate specifically, and he already had seen 12 bikes because I wanted to know how heavily that was used because that was a concern, and we had listened very carefully. Thank you. Elena?

Yeah. Is anybody else that wants to speak? Come to the mic, please.

I'm Helen Narciso, and I live in the, Berry Glen, neighborhood, since 1978. And I've been complaining about traffic, parking, and litters in our neighborhood. But this time during the Super Bowl, I was really amazed how it was a lot less. I expect the worst thing that could happen, but it did not. So I wanna give kudos to the police department of Santa Clara and all the security officers that, took place. So, the execution of your plan was really, amazing. So thank you for that.

With a big nod to public works too.

Good evening. I'm Kevin Crave. I live here at Rivermark. What is the status of reconciling reimbursement from the host committee for costs incurred by the city for the Super Bowl?

Manager, go we're we're not discussing that actually right now, but we we can just maybe quickly Sure. Go.

I'll give a high level summary, of that. We'll actually be given a a fuller presentation on that at the next council meeting. In in general, I think what you're referring to is, for the Super Bowl and and World Cup, we have reimbursement agreements. And so for the Super Bowl, the city negotiated, and the city council approved what's called a league of an agreement that was with the Bay Area Host Committee, with a financial backstop of a 49ers entity. There, the cost can really be broken down into three categories, training, planning, and, event deployment.

There is a invoicing process where, the city generates invoices to the host committee. Those invoices are then reviewed. There's a question and answer, period. And then ultimately, those invoices are paid. Important to note in the league event agreement for Super Bowl, it called for a deposit of, I believe, half of the estimated cost prior to the Super Bowl.

So the city did receive, I think, approximately $2,500,000 prior to the Super Bowl to help offset those, anticipated costs. So the city is currently in a, accounting reconciliation process. Important to note, even for a normal event at the Super Bowl, it takes several weeks, in order for a invoice to be generated. So specific to Super Bowl day costs, we have costs that were incurred by not just our agencies, our our our city, our department, but also a number of third party agencies, CHP, other police departments. So so we are currently, there's a process where all of those invoices are being collected.

They will be processed, and then they will be sent to the host committee for for reimbursement. There's a dashboard on the city's website that tracks payment. I believe for Super Bowl, invoices have been paid up through October. November and December invoices were recently submitted to them. They are being processed through the Bay Area Host Committee during that question and, that that sort of Q and A.

They do a very fine, detailed review of it. They ask questions and then, payment is made. And so at a high level, that's where we're at. But certainly at, the next council meeting, I do know the staff member that is directly responsible for managing that process will come to the city council and provide a a more detailed overview.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Good evening. So I just wanted to express a couple of things. Thank you, Janine, for the information about the what was being sent out to the public. I will say that there were some concerns with the pyrotechnics during the practice that there were folks that were not aware. And so there was a lot of concern because there was a lot of smoke coming into the neighborhoods as as a result, and so people didn't know what was happening.

So communication was good, but it could've been just a little little bit better because, especially, you know, we have a lot of folks with PTSD. You've got the fur babies, you know, a lot of folks that, you know, weren't prepared, and so those communications are really important. I wanna share two compliments that I've heard since the Super Bowl. I was actually at an event on Saturday talking to a representative of, governor Newsom's office and who expressed to me how we have a top notch police department, and he said y'all are role models. So, kudos to you, and, he just thought that everything had just rolled out so well.

So to add that and another compliment that I heard was actually from Sutter Health who talked about how a plan was put together so that if anybody needed to use the facilities there on Mission College Boulevard, they had access and they were so appreciative of that and hoping that these lessons learned will help in preparing for FIFA coming up. So thank you again.

Thank you. I think we're Okay.

If there's no one else, I will go into the next portion of the presentation. We're now gonna be going over the Levi's Stadium structure. So this is just a high level overview. Some of you might know it very well. Some of you may not be as familiar with it, so just bear with me, please. How many are you here or aware that the stadium or sorry. The city owns the land. Right? Okay. And that the Santa Clara Stadium Authority owns the stadium?

Perfect. Yes. So operations are actually split between two seasons. During the NFL season, about six months of the year, the stadium is operated by the 49ers organization. During the other six months, there is no NFL tenant, so the stadium authority contracts with the management company to host and manage events like concerts and other sporting events like the San Jose earthquakes versus LAFC and Copa America Cup games.

The same management company also manages the day to day operations and maintenance year round to ensure consistency at the stadium. The overall structure was established through measure j, which voters approved in 2010. It set clear rules for how the stadium was funded and operated and managed. It created the stadium authority. Through measure j, the Stadium Authority was established to oversee construction and operations.

It's important to note that measure j was also designed to protect the city financially. No city general funds or new taxes are used for the stadium. The city is not responsible for any of the construction or operating cost and is reimbursed for any of the public safety services during events, and also receives a portion of ticket revenues. Overall, this is a shared structure with clearly defined roles designed to support stadium activity while protecting city resources. A key point to understand is how finances work.

Revenue and ex expenditures are not handled the same year round, and they vary depending on who is using the stadium, whether during the NFL season or the non NFL events. As I mentioned, so the city of Santa Clara owns the land that was the the stadium is built on, and the city does provide through our police department, our fire department, our Department of Public Works services during NFL and non NFL events. Importantly, the cost of these services is fully reimbursed by the stadium entities so that there's no financial burden to the city's general fund. Next is the Santa Clara Stadium Authority. The Stadium Authority is a public entity that is separate from separate and distinct from the city.

As our city manager mentioned earlier, he is the city manager and the executive director the executive director for the stadium authority and the city manager for the city. Overall, the city the stadium authority pays a central role in ensuring the stadium is operated, maintained, and positioned to host world class events like Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup. The next remaining entities include involved in the stadium operations are associated with the 49ers organization. Starting with Team Co, the 49ers football company, this is the entity that own and operates the 49ers. During the NFL season, Team Co uses a stadium for all game and team related activities.

They do this through a sublease agreement, meaning they're essentially the day to day user of the stadium during this time. Then there is STADCO, the 49ers stadium company, who is actually the primary tenant of the stadium during the NFL season, which is about six months of the year. Stadthold holds the main lease and subleases the stadium to Teamco. In addition, STATCO is responsible for certain operational financial obligations under the lease. Next slide.

Lastly, we have the 49ers stadium management company. Manco is or Manco. Manco is responsible for the day to day operations of the stadium year round, and that includes everything from event coordination during the non NFL season to coordinate ongoing maintenance. This as I mentioned, this work happens year round regardless of the type of event or the season if it's NFL or non NFL. So what's unique is that Manco operates under different contracts depending on the time of the year.

During the NFL season, Manco works under contract with STATCO, which is tied to the 49ers. During the non NFL season, Manco operates under the contract with the stadium authority. So while the operator stays the same, the oversight and contractual structure shift depends on whether it's NFL or non NFL season. So this next slide, thank you, is a visual or visualization of how a little bit of how that structure works. So if you could see, it's separated between NFL season and non NFL events or season events.

The stadium oversight is done through the Stadium Authority year round. And through MANCO, the stadium manager manages the operations of the stadium. During the NFL season, the tenant is STATCO. During non NFL season, the Stadium Authority through MANCO operate and manage the stadium. And public safety along with public works provide year round public safety, traffic and transportation and parking services, all of which are reimbursed to the city.

For public safety, there's also partnerships with Allied Partners and Manco for all events. So I guess our executive director mentioned it a little bit earlier. With the city or Levi's Stadium hosting Super Bowl LX and FIFA World Cup, there's another entity that's specific to this to the past couple of years in getting us to this year and hosting these events. But the Bay Area Host Committee is a nonprofit organization that were successful in petitioning for Super Bowl and FIFA to come to Levi's Stadium. And so they are the ones that coordinate the part collaborate between all of the entities, NFL, FIFA, and all of the stadium entities, MANCO, STATCO, Stadium Authority and the city to host these events.

And as mentioned earlier, they did execute various agreements depending on the event. So for Super Bowl LX, they executed the league event agreement, and with FIFA World Cup, an assumption and assignment agreement. So these agreements outline the responsibilities and roles for each of the org entities that part of hosting these major events. Next slide. Thank you.

So now that we've oh, now that we've reviewed the key entities associated with the stadium, we wanted to take a look at the agreements and how each entity is part of these agreements and how they work together. So the ground lease leases the land the city leases the land to the stadium authority for stadium development operations. It's a forty year term with payment for the city in performance rent and a senior and youth program fee. And so Sorry? And base rent. And base rent. Correct. Sorry. Thank you. So those are the types of revenues that the city receives through this agreement.

The city, through this agreement, as I mentioned, provides public safety, transportation management, and emergency response all reimbursed from the stadium authority. The next agreement is the stadium lease. This lease defines financial and operational responsibilities for STADCO, use of the stadium, including revenue sharing and cost obligations. Some of the key point or terms include its forty years and they cover the NFL season, so during the time that the NFL season. STATCO responsibilities include exclusive rights for NFL operations and covering Manco's operational expenses during their lease term.

There's a facility rent that is paid to the stadium authority. Ticket surcharge and public safety. There's also a requirement to provide capital reserves to pay for capital improvements at the stadium. And so there are revenue sources for the Stadium Authority that include non NFL ticket surcharges, NFL senior and youth fees, stadium naming rights, and non NFL event revenues that all go towards the stadium authority through the stadium lease. Next is the management agreement.

So this is the agreement that we've that is responsible for the day to day year round operations of the stadium. Manco ensures that the stadium is maintained and well in required condition while controlling cost and maximizing revenues. Manco also during the six months of the non NFL events are responsible for booking various events at the stadium. The last one is the stadium operations agreement. This agreement establishes how the stadium authority and Statico coordinate use of the stadium as they are users during different times of the year.

It's it's key it provides a structure for scheduling events and approving annual operations and maintenance plans, coordination on public safety budgets, stadium authority approval re is required for capital expenditures on the stadium amongst other things. So it's it really outlines how these two entities coordinate use shared use of the stadium. We can allow for questions here?

Yeah. Just prior to questions, I will say that, those of you that were at our first meeting, there was a request for a financial overview of the stadium. We will have that at the next meeting. What we wanted to do for this meeting is reserve the balance of time for that number one issue we heard about was, which is parking. But we did wanna provide just a general framework overview, of the structure, but I'll I'll turn it to the chair to navigate public comment.

Yeah. So if anybody has any public comment or, council members, commission, please come to the mic. If you you can come to the mic just so the folks who may be online can hear.

My question is, who has the ultimate, responsibility of all these different entities that was presented? Because I you know, I have a very simple mind, so it's like I you know, I could connect all of them, but who has the ultimate responsibility?

Fair.

So Or authority, are you in in this case?

I think the best way to articulate that is to say the authority is segregated based on the agreements. And so neither party has unilateral authority or the ultimate authority. The agreements really outline and allocate responsibilities to each party. So the city has a role. The stadium authority has a role. The management company has a role. STATCO has a has a role. And so there is no ultimate person or entity responsible. It's really the the contracts that govern who does what. And like most contracts, when there's a disagreement, you go to dispute resolution.

And if that doesn't work, you go to court. Right? But, that that's probably the best answer I can give. Fair. I'll repeat that, so those, watching remotely can hear it. It says who has the ultimate liability? I will also say that that is segregated, but there are various layered insurance policies. So the stadium authority has its own insurance that's separate and distinct from the city. SATCO as an entity has their own insurance, and the city has its own insurance. And so there there are various insurance policies with umbrella policies on top and and various, deductibles, but there's a layered structure to cover the risks.

And in fact, it's important to note that due to the elevated risk of running a essentially 70,000 or 68,500 seat venue, the Stadium Authority, policy, is elevated and has actually deductible given the the level of elevated risk with that with that with so many people converging at one time.

Thank you. Councilmember Jane?

So the 49ers can't just pick up and leave. They're obligated to continue to pay us on the order of $24,000,000 a year. The stadium started out with a loan of $650,000,000. That is now down to 210,000,000, and so it's been paid off. Over 400,000,000 has been paid off.

So the stadium has mostly been paid off, or the majority of it has been paid off. The stadium last year generated about $10,000,000 worth of profits to the general fund, and the year before, it was 20,000,000 through a settlement agreement. So something that has rid arisen recently is that capital expenses, are looming, and we're trying to address how we're gonna handle capital expenses. But the liability the city owns the stadium, but there's contracts that prevent the 49ers from just get picking up and leaving. Does that explain oh, I hope that clarifies.

Right. Anyone else? If not, anybody online, we'll continue.

Thank you. So we'll now move on to, parking, the issue that was brought up overwhelmingly in the first committee meeting and I think was already brought up today in concerns about the impacts from parking. That was, I guess, the biggest concern was the stadium attendees during both NFL and non NFL events parking in the neighborhoods and those impacting quality of life for the residents from not being able to park in your own neighborhood to people loitering to people in talk you know, intoxicated individuals. So wide range of issues that are impacting them. They were also the some of the committee member or community members brought up having received parking passes when the stadium was built and not being able to enforce those.

And part of that conversation was that it was never codified in the city municipal code or via resolution. And so our police department is not able to enforce those parking passes that were initially provided. And so tonight, we are going to be going over the existing residential parking program and the alternative parking overlay program, and then we'll be getting some feedback from the community after.

And and I'll just add that as the police chief said earlier, there are some constitutional issues with the program as I think it was initially articulated to the community, which is why people see the A Frame signs that say, no event parking. But I think what we all observe is that people park in the neighborhoods for eve event parking. And so the the police department, really doesn't have the ability and the tools right now to stop people from parking in the neighborhood. And so what we're gonna talk about are two options, one of which I think people have heard of before and we talked a little bit about, which is a classic RPP residential parking program. And then the other option is a modification to that, Cauda Stadium, overlay parking district.

And I'll turn it over to Mike Liu, the, assistant public works director.

Great. Thank you, city manager. If I could get the next slide, we appreciate it. Yeah. So we'll cover two programs. I'll cover the first part, which is the existing residential premier parking program. So we've had this since 2003. And as the community member mentioned, the communities kinda went through that process. Right? So we'll we'll highlight that a little bit because I think, ultimately, there's gonna be a comparison between the two, and I think it's good for the community to get a feeling of what what program we have today and and and whether that was gonna work for the for this neighborhood.

And then, Christine Jung will come up and, I believe, present on the alternative parking program after me. So next slide, please. Okay. So a lot of information here. I'm sure the slides will be available later, but just I'll go quickly here to not bore you. So 2003, the city council approves, an ordinance, and that basically created the residential permit parking program. The intent there is to basically establish a parking zone in residential neighborhoods where street parking is allowed by permit only. So the theory there is if you don't have a permit, you shouldn't be parking there if the zone's created. And then in theory, you could also be cited and, other action taken. At the same time, they approved guidelines to establish the zones.

And, ultimately, there's several steps. I've highlighted the the kind of the key six steps here. This is all resident driven, so the city is not gonna come put parking restrictions just because it's all resident driven. Residents say there's an issue, and then they can talk to our staff, understand the process. But, ultimately, it is a request from residents. So first step is the property owners request an RPP. So they say, hey. I heard about the program, and I'm interested. What do I need to do to kick that off? Next is initial city coordination. So oftentimes, people want something that, you know, that they believe the city can provide. Our job is to explain the program and then tease out additional information. Like, what are we talking about here? What streets are you looking at? Things like that.

The the third step is an initial property owner ballot. And, really, this is where we stopped with the initial effort here that was referred to. And that's really the city says, okay. We we heard you. We've established the network of streets that, you know, could be subject to RPP. The city sends out a mailer to all the residents, and then we're really trying to get concurrence. Right? If and we send it out and there's only one person that wants it, the person that talked to the city, you know, there's clearly not a lot of support. Ultimately, we look for 50 a simple majority concurrence of 50% of all property owners. And I think that was mentioned earlier that we do look at all property owners.

If it does make it past that 51% sorry. 50% plus one, then we go to a parking permits needed needs analysis. This is us looking at the area a little bit more in-depth. And then ultimately, we go to a final property owner ballot. If it once again hits that 50% plus one, then we would bring it to council or bring it present it in front of our city council. Obviously, residents would be informed that it would be presented on a certain day to the council, and then, hopefully, the council would approve it. Obviously, the council may have questions as we move forward with that meeting. So next slide, please. So just a little bit more information about the RPP program. So this is a partnership between public works and police.

Ultimately, if the the RPP zone is created, then the police department issues parking permits to residents to park in that area. There's two permits per qualifying address that are allowed. Two visitor permits per address are allowed. Permits are valid from July 1 of a year to June 30 the following year. Permits are issued online. There's a link there if you're interested. Permits are virtual and links to and links to the actual vehicle license plate itself. So I wanted to mention that. And then permits are $34 each year. That's the current rate.

And, Mike, will you confirm? We have a number of these districts active in the city. So even though understanding that the neighborhoods next to the stadium have not elected

this program. We have we have a few. We also have other type of permit parking programs. So, like, don't wanna confuse the audience, but what I was referring to was if you don't have a permit, you shouldn't park on that street in theory. There are other permits that police issue for parking in a time limited zone.

So, like, say, you happen to be a resident and there is a two hour zone in front of your property, you're off of Stevens Creek, there's all these folks that park there, then the resident is is eligible for a permit so they can park there all the time. The two hour zone is for those without a permit. So, but in terms of RPP itself, we have a few zones mostly around the, Santa Clara University area where there's a lot of, parking need. And then, ultimately, I did wanna focus on this piece. This is just a lot of information here, but I wanted to, you know, make sure that it was clear that there was a resident effort.

Right? Residents came together and then basically signed a petition, was submitted to the city in 2024. And, technically, there were two two petitions submitted. This is from the Mission Park neighborhood just south of the stadium. Two two petitions submitted for the first different areas. First petition was closer to the stadium, and the second petition was a little bit further away. Ultimately, once again, resident driven. So I think the desire there was we're gonna see if we're successful with petition one, and if that's successful, we'll go to petition two. I ultimately you know, I think the residents were concerned that if you create this first zone, then people are just gonna migrate to the other area as well. As we get further away from the stadium, the parking issues, as I understand, are not as dire.

So we did focus on the first petition, and we mailed out ballots in November a couple months later. Ultimately, we did extend due dates several times. So we'll send a letter, says a due date, tries to explain what we're looking for. And then we don't get a response, we'll send a reminder reminder, send extend due dates. We did that twice. And then, ultimately, with the the final results were out of 408 properties, only a 147 actually voted yes. So it's 36%. Not quite the 51. Sorry. 50 plus one.

And then, ultimately, we informed the petitioner. The petitioner, to some degree, pulled the petition back, and we were stopping as well. And that's kinda where we stopped at that point. So I just wanted to make sure everyone understood. It was a balanced effort by the community. I know there are certain members of the pub members of the community that were trying to gather support. I think the you know, there's just a lot of concern. Either people were just not interested in it or they just, you know, didn't have the time to fill out the the information. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Christine. She's gonna cover the other option. Thank you.

Hi, everyone. So hearing the feedback from the last committee meeting, staff started researching other alternative parking programs that are implemented in other Bay Area cities. Specifically, some of the cities that we looked at included San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Mountain View. Mostly, those are the places that we see there being events, and they have some sort of alternative parking program where it's not twenty four seven implemented. And based on the research that was done, we developed a framework for a proposed stadium event overlay parking program.

And so this framework does provide a flexible event based alternative to the existing residential parking permit program that assistant director Liu just covered. The goal of it is to manage neighborhood parking impacts during major event days at the stadium. And this program, key difference would be that it's activated only on major event days, knowing that those are the times when the neighborhood is impacted. It would be limited to the high impact neighborhoods adjacent to Levi's Stadium. The locations have not yet been determined yet.

We're seeking feedback on what are the most impacted locations as well from the community and looking for residential input. Then, obviously, there would also be further staff analysis based on the feedback that we get. Next slide. Similar to the existing parking program, there will be a registration and permit renewal process. The types of permits that we're thinking of residential permits as well as permits for guests.

In terms of enforcement, one key thing that we know is that people are parking in the neighborhood because it's cheaper even if they get a citation. And so one aspect that we're researching is, you know, and expect to, implement is to have the penalties exceed the amount of parking, at event locations. Citations will be issued during the event days for noncompliance, and there will be potentially escalating penalties as well for repeat violations and people who are not using the permit in the way that it's intended to. Next slide. So, this is just a, comparison chart on the residential parking permit program.

It's activated twenty four seven, whereas the alternative program that we're looking into would only be activated during event days at the stadium. On the existing program, there's a request for a zone that's initiated by the community. It does require a majority vote by all the residents and then final council approval. This is TBD. So we're building out a framework for this program, and so we'll be seeking feedback from the community.

On the residential permit pro parking program, two permits are currently issued for residents, and two permits are issued for guests per qualifying address. This is also something that we'll be seeking feedback from from the community as well to better understand your needs. And then likely, this will be very similar on for both programs. But on the existing program, permits are issued online. They're virtual and linked to license plates, and so that will be likely something that's implemented as well.

But we'll be seeking feedback as well just to see how can we make the process more user friendly. So bear with me. But there's a list of questions that you know, and things that we would like the community to think about as we develop this continue developing this framework. So what are the primary goals that we're trying to achieve through a parking program adjacent to the stadium? Is that to, you know, have more residential parking access?

Is it to address safety issues, or is it mitigating event impacts? Of the two programs that were presented, which program do you think would be more successful in achieving these goals? How should success be measured? Is that in terms of parking availability, reduced com complaints, safety improvements, or other things? How will each program option impact residents or homeowners, renters, and multifamily housing differently?

One you know, the probably the most important, what geographic area should be included in the final program? How many permits should be issued per qualifying address for residents for guests? What features would residents like to see in the enrollment and permitting process to make it more easy user friendly? And what incentives or penalties would support compliance from the community's perspective? And what trade offs are residents willing to accept?

So, obviously, this is something new. There's going to be compliance and enforcement, and so there's gonna be stricter rules in general. And and it's not gonna be as convenient, but on the on the flip side, you will have access to more parking.

Alright?

Alright. So we have a question. Come here. Okay.

First off, I want you to know that there's something invisible that most of us can't see on all those signs where it says residents only. It says accept me, And that's the way everybody sees it. And with the Uber drivers, we found the same thing, except for me. I can't see it, but, apparently, they can. That's been frustrating.

There's also I found out they're a bit of an underground business of people selling parking places in their driveway and then even going as far as to sell in front of their house, which you do not control. But I have talked with people and found out that was going on. The reality is when we put this out and did only heard, you know, 36% back because neighbors will have to help us with this. We will have to go on complaint. So my question is, would we be able to use our Santa Clara app and take a picture, and that would go right in for neighbors?

Because to me, that's an easy way. I know with the Santa Clara app, when I turn in something, it goes it just goes to requests. I can snap a picture. It it it marks exactly where I'm at. So I wondered if that was part of that possible idea if we're gonna do this for an event day. Thank you.

Sure.

I'll take that, and I'll I'll also look toward the chief for additional comments. So one of the things that we've talked internally about building out is a very user friendly process for residents to sign up, them to residents to register guests, and for enforcement to occur. One of the easiest ways is a LPR license plate reader system, whereas residents would load in their license plate, any guest license plates if that's allowed. And then we can have a enforcement vehicle that would have the technology on their car that could just drive the area and then issue citations if that license plate is not within the system. Of course, there would need to be a cure period, but but that's what what we've talked about.

And I know that the public works department is currently seeking systems to do that, for parking permit programs, but also for eventual paid parking in in various places across the city. And and so, Keith, if there if there's anything you'd like to add.

No. That was good. The the technology's there, and we could be complaint driven, but we could also be LPR driven. And and the council, just at our last meeting, did continue our automated license plate reader program for law enforcement purposes. So, absolutely, for parking enforcement, we could use this, and the vendors are there with that technology.

Elena?

Thank you, Christine, for the presentation on the parking overlay program. As she mentioned oh, if you can go back one. Sorry. We wanted to take this opportunity to hear from the community feedback, comments on the pro or the two options. Right? The residential permit parking or the overlay parking program that was proposed today. These are kinda like the questions there that we wanted to to have you think through or think about and and when you're providing the feedback. So

Feedback here?

Feedback now. Perfect. Yeah. We're gonna turn it over. So I'll turn it back over to our chair.

Alright. So, yes, if you can come to the mic, and you don't have to address all of But if you do if you have an answer for all of them, please please let us know your questions.

Again, I'm with the Mission Park community, and I'm actually one of the board members with the HOA. So I worked or most of this was driven by our board president, but I communicated with her a lot on this, so I'm familiar what kinda transpired. I think we were trying to push for the RPPP, and I think we couldn't get past that 50%. And a lot of it is due to if you talk to community, most of the people we talked to said they like the idea because they don't like all the issues we have in the in the community during event days. And they think that, you know, mitigating the parking issue, we won't we just won't have people coming through just like Super Bowl when there's you know, when there was blocked off, there's no reason to park in our community.

So if you can't park in our community, they're not gonna come and cause all the problems. But the things that we got a lot of pushback on was, it was many things, but I think one of the big ones is I think I don't know if this is a accurate number, but we're about 30% of the properties in Mission Park are now rented out. So they're not actually people living there. They're actually homeowners rented out. And I'm not saying all, but there's a good number of them who just don't care is the source of revenue.

So they're just like, you guys do whatever. I don't care. But when you ask them to fill out the thing and say, vote yes or no, they don't care. They don't bother because all they care about is generating revenue. The other thing is a lot of times, the homes, they rented out. Each bedroom is rented out to a different person. So a lot of them have four tenants. We know this because we require them to list all the tenants, and we do see that it's not like the normal household where you have two adults and children. It's four adults. Sometimes there's two adults in one room.

They each have their own car. They're not related. So in one household, you got, on average, four how four cars. And so two parking permits, they're like, no way. We need more. And can we get more? And I believe when she reached out, I can't remember who spoke to, but I think at that time, they were saying no. It's limited to two. So, you know, so that's a major pushback right there. And most houses, even though everyone has a garage, you know, most people don't park in their garage.

They use it for storage. And so that's another why we are limited, and we are high density houses. We're not like the normal one house per, you know, front of the street. We have maybe eight houses that are inset, and you can't park in the courtyards. You have to park on the street. So if each house has at least two cars and you got eight houses per courtyard, there's just no parking. And so people are concerned about, you know, I won't get enough parking permits. And then the other one was some people just worry that, well, what if I forget to put it on? Then I'm gonna get my car towed. You know, just things like that.

I know you're saying it's not a sticker. Before, it used to be the sticker, and people were, oh, I lost my sticker or whatever. So they weren't sure how this is gonna go, whether it's registered or it's a sticker you put in your car. So there's just a lot of things that that people had questions about. They weren't sure. But I would say majority of it is that people just don't read their email. We try and even the board president would go knock on doors, but people just don't care. Just like, I don't care. If I don't do anything, it's not gonna happen, so we just leave a status quo. Now I'm wondering, is it possible to reverse it to instead of saying you need a 50% vote to put in place, you can say, we're gonna do this.

Because I know HOAs have have this where we announced that we're gonna change a a policy in our HOA. And if we announce it, we put it into our newsletter, and we give it at least I think it was thirty or sixty days, and then it gives people a chance to come back and respond and say, no. We don't want it. Unless we get the feedback saying no, we go ahead and implement it. Now is that an option where we say, if you we don't give 50% saying no, then we're gonna go with this. You get what I'm saying? So instead of saying we have to vote yes, you have to vote no. Is that an option?

City manager speak with.

Sure. I can respond to a couple of your, points and questions. What what you just described is what's called a a majority protest. And, certainly, a program can be set up with a majority protest process. It could be set up where the voting threshold is lower.

It doesn't have to be 50 plus one, and it could be unilaterally implemented by the city council. And so part of this is seeking feedback, from the community, and then a policy setting conversation, with with both the committee and then the the city council. Also, you mentioned, that there are a number of renters in the, community now. Your typical RPP residential parking permit program as well as a, stadium event overlay, it would be property owners that, are the voting member. And so the address that we would pull is the address on the property tax roll.

And so, you know, conceivably, if an owner didn't update their property tax roll, it it it would go to the house and the renter may fill it out. But we seek property owners, and and we we use the best address, for for the property owner. You mentioned the number of permits. That is oftentimes a, a hotly debated item as how many permits does someone, does each household get. I'll tell you in in in my experience with this, that is oftentimes the crux of the issue for for the community because, really, what you're doing is you're limiting access to a public street.

And and I think what you described is that in communities, frankly, all across the country, but certainly in this part of California, we have more people occupying some of some dwelling units than they were initially intended for. And so there are more cars, right? And so when you talk, and I say that because oftentimes you have residential parking programs implemented in neighborhoods that just are very impacted with with with with cars, and there's not enough people to park. Right? Classic is communities along the peninsula, below one zero one. Right? Tons of cars, not enough, parking on the street. And so people say, hey. You know what? We wanna limit the number of passes so that every dwelling unit only gets two parking, spots.

So in setting a program, it can be two. It can be four. It can even be unlimited. It it's a policy conversation, and there there there are pros and cons of each. I I will say that, oftentimes the question comes up of, you limit the number of parking spaces based on if the property has a garage, if the property has a driveway, do they have off street parking?

My understanding is that you cannot, discriminate based on built environment. You can't provide apartment, users with x number of parking spaces, but single family homes y. You really have to provide every legal dwelling unit with the same number of spaces. And so through this process and we can certainly have those conversations and determine, how many parking permits, every dwelling unit would get. And I think the same conversation needs to be had for guest permits.

Right? Even if this is only a event overlay, if you limit to two guest parking permits, well, what if someone's having that that that birthday party on the day that there's an event at Levi's Stadium or having a, you know, NFL, watch party at their house for their friends? And so, do do you limit them? Right? If if you have it at ten or if you have it unlimited unlimited, you get into the issue with, well, people monetizing their parking permits. Right? And you may have your neighbors say, okay. I get 10 guest permits. That's x number of dollars times 10. Right?

Because the city has now given me 10 permits. And so then that becomes you know, we we we may look to put policy around that, and then it just sort of circular enforcement process. And so I I think all of those options are are things that we can have a policy setting conversation around. And then I I also think one of the big crux is gonna be, is this unilaterally implemented, or is this, implemented based on some polling of the community versus its majority, protest lowering the threshold, etcetera.

But so I wasn't clear. So you're saying it could be where we either lower or, I guess, the city council will have to lower the requirement instead of having 51% or more saying yes. You're saying that could be lowered as one option. And then is there another option to where you have to vote saying no?

So yes and yes. So the program that could be established, being the stadium event, parking program or the residential parking program, both of those are set by the city council. So in their legislative discretion, they can pick the various thresholds or or do it unilaterally. Residential park our residential parking program, classic of almost everyone I've seen, is 50% plus one. Right? Different than 51%, but 50% Right. Plus one person. But there there are other ways to do it. And so part of this is seeking community feedback.

K. So we've already failed as you showed in the slide permission part. We tried multiple times even though it was ex the the deadline was extended. We just couldn't get enough people to to vote. And as I mentioned, a lot of it's the homeowners who are renting, so they just don't care. They don't a lot of them just we can barely get in touch with them. And so, what would it take for Mission Park to work with the city council to try to find an alternative?

That is exactly what we're doing through this process. So Okay. One of the main reasons that I know council members wanted to have a stadium neighborhood relations committee is to address this very issue and to engage the community in a conversation around parking. We know we have an RPP process. We know what those rules are.

We know that there's been a, try an effort that tried but did not pass. Do we want to adjust that program? Do we want to implement a new program? And so today is about getting feedback. I imagine our we will, continue other feedback, sessions, but I do know that the committee wants to end this, committee with some action on or or at least a decision on parking in the neighborhood.

Is it gonna be status quo? Is there going to be an overlay district? And I I do think we'll we'll have conversations later on about, you know, is there going to be a survey of the community to really gauge interest? I do know that oftentimes, councils like to know the, sentiment of the community outside of the people that show up to a notice meeting. Right? We know it's hard to come to meetings. We know, very few people show up. And so I think we'll have those conversations about what are the input, vehicles we utilize before settling on a programmatic model.

Okay. So you will let the communities know if you guys come out with something?

We won't let you know. We're gonna work with you to make sure that we Okay. Grab your input.

Yeah. Okay. Great. Thanks.

Council member Hardy? I

was just gonna say that we recognize that not everyone is engaged in things, and that's why it was just 51 purse 50% plus one person. But we also, as a city council, need to hear from our residents some of the real concerns when they're just anecdotal or somebody said or somebody's, you know, complained us about something. If we have more evidence, that would help a lot to help us get past that. Because the city council doesn't want to voice something on the community that they don't want as that won't fix anything and that won't help and that is just a few people. That's the reality.

So you have to get past that showing us that there is enough evidence to to put away that 51% or to lower that or take the other negative type if you you know, your vote is yes if you don't say anything. So what it is is because no matter what we put in here, whether it's for everything or just for events, it will be on our residents to help us to police it. And when you say nobody cares, you realize then nothing would change because we wouldn't get our police wouldn't get the information, and there's a reality there. Now if we use the license plates readers, that could help, but I don't think we have a way for, if it's the wrong license plate for a lightning bolt to come down and say you can't park here. It's still going to have to go to the police situation.

So we have to show that there is enough problem and that this is the best solution. And then you just have to convince four out of seven hopefully reasonable, rational people that that's that's going to help you. The nice thing is council member Gonzales lives here on the North Side. I lived here in the North Side in the eighties. I watched them build the training camp for my window.

I lived on Calle De Primavera. I'm out here whenever I can be. I care about this area. That's why I beg to be on this. Council member Jane was the also, when we heard different things and then looked, there were complaints about noise, but then we put out noise monitoring, and there was something that I thought was probably correct, and it showed it.

The airplanes are the noisiest thing. We know that. I lived out here. So this is where we're trying to go on not we're trying to listen to complaints, but we have to have a little more data to help us to make a good decision and not to make one that we hate ourselves for afterwards. Thank you. Alright.

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I'm gonna try my best. Okay? The first bullet, I think it's all of the above. The second bullet, I believe it's one of our success with chairman. I think I believe the alternative solution that you presented is more because, when I saw the $34 fee, I can envision my neighbors saying no.

Okay? Any additional finance burden to the community, they will not accept that. How should success be measured? I think it's mainly to reduction of complaints and safety improvements. How will each program option impact residents and multifamily housing?

In our neighborhood at Ferry Glen Park or neighborhood, it's mostly single family homes. So I'm not worried about, you know, multifamily housing. What geographic geographic area should be included? The only concern I have is we have elementary school, the Catherine Hughes there, and we also have a park inside. So I don't know how you could limit entrance to that location. Okay? So I think that's a part of the analysis for parking. How many permits should be issued per qualifying address? I think three. Or it depends.

Are you going to base it on number of vehicles per address? Or I don't know, number of residents or occupants in the residence.

It it would be a specific number of permits per dwelling unit.

Okay. Per dwelling. What features would the residents like to see in the enrollment? The simpler, the better because a lot of our folks in our neighborhood are not, technologically savvy. So if it's online or maybe it should be better on paper or give that option. What incentives or penalties would support compliance? I don't know. I guess it depends on what the city allows and what trade offs our residents willing to accept. I I would go for stricter rules, but I don't know. I'm just speaking for myself. Okay? So that's all I can say.

Thank you. I think there was some yeah. Please come to the mic.

So, coincidentally, this is an issue that I run into quite often, related to special events, but given that, you know, it is something that we run into. I'm in Rivermark, but I live on Lick Mill just across from Mansion Grove. So what I witnessed is a lot of the residents or their visitors park in our spots, like, right there on the street parking. And then I have two young kids, so depending on what time I get home at night, I might have to park at the pool area because I think they're a lot less willing to park there because they figure that's where the permit parking exists because I do have a parking permit. And so I'm pretty sure that might be more related to our HOA than it is the city.

But if there was a program in place, I would like to see it strictly enforced like the parking program mentioned before, not necessarily the overlay, because it's not just impacting during the game times, but it does. Because if someone in Mansion Grove is hosting, like you said, a birthday party or, maybe a watch party, then it does impact us being able to have parking available. And then, again, what the measures would be, obviously, are the reduced complaints. And I don't believe that there are any reported safety issues at this time, but it could mitigate any of that if that does come up. And so, again, obviously, I don't believe it would be generally impacting all of the neighborhood, but Lick Mill does seem to be one of those high impacted streets, especially during the game times.

I wasn't here during Super Bowl, so I don't know, but I'd I'm I can only imagine. And then as far as issues per address, I'm sure there are surveys or different statistics that exist for however many potential parking spaces are available in that area. I think it should be issued equitably to make sure that enough of the residents do have access for themselves. Like you said, there are multigenerational people living in houses at this time, so, you know, it might be common for them to have four to six vehicles. I personally even though I have a two car garage, one parking spot is reserved for our golf clubs and my Christmas decorations.

So, you know, I do use the street parking pretty regularly for our other car. And then I do like the idea of having the website accessible for us to report that because that's the other thing I'm always curious about is I don't wanna be the person that's calling the tow company or someone along those lines, but I also don't wanna have to walk a long stretch with soccer equipment and all of that stuff to go home. And then I do like the suggestion of the elevation of the penalties to be enforced. That way, it can really dissuade people from parking there. And then that's it. That's what I have to say. So, yeah, thank you.

Thank you. I think there was another resident here.

Thank you

very much for collaboratively working for our community needs. So regarding overlay program, I know this is still based on community feedback. But I was wondering, assuming that Citi having data and parking patterns, can Citi prioritize the high impact areas, first of all, which, which needs, like, the most immediate attention? And, also, forgive me if this sounds too crazy, but if Citi has explored, like coming up with a model where we can have event based paid parking, And at the end, this revenue can be shared with the residents or like benefit sharing with the residents living on the same streets. Basically, this can be just activated before the peak hours of the event, and it can be a parking meter or something like that.

And the residents living on the street, which is like maybe stickers from city showing that this is resident of that street, something like that, and then can be exempt from paying. But all the other, like, illegal parking visitors is going to end up paying. So and that's going to make additional source of income for the, maybe, residents and the city. Just wanted to share that. Yeah. Thank you.

Anyone else? Please please step up to the mic. Thank you.

Hi. My name is Latoya. It's a little bit different for us. I work for Hudson, and we own Tech Mart, which is right around the corner from the stadium. One thing I have say, Super Bowl went really well. I was actually there up until it started, then I just went home because I don't wanna be in the chaos. But my residents were able to get to the to the building. No problem. I was able to get to the building. No problem.

You know, we had extra security just to make sure people didn't go in our building, but we had zero, know, instances. Only issue we had was people just parking in the red zone on Bunker Hill. All the limos, all the SUVs felt like that was their own kinda parking area, but eventually, someone was able to to get some from the police department to come clear them But in regards to parking, even though we're an office building, it does affect us. We are a little unique because we are on a ground lease, so we kinda have our own kind of permits. Pre COVID, there was parking enforcement where someone would come around like you would a downtown and give tickets if you don't aren't following the rules.

And we'd be very good about teaching any new tenants that came to the building, hey. If you get a ticket, it's not us. It's gonna be the police department. But we noticed after COVID, that hasn't happened. So we're seeing definitely more people from, you know, Levi, the hotel, convention center, or parking in our in our open surface area that it doesn't have any arms and is strictly enforced with permits. So, you know, we're just wondering what it would take to kinda have that start again or if that's part of that same kind of enigma of they could enforce it before, but they can't do it now. I know the overlay part doesn't affect us just because we're a different model, but just wanted to see if you guys can keep us in mind when you're looking at these different instances to help us protect our parking for our tenants. Thank you.

Thank you. City manager?

Sure. I will attempt to address some of that. So interesting with the Tekmark. Right? So, the Techmark, the Hyatt, and the convention center, there's a parking slash maintenance district there. And and so there's a lot that the Hyatt controls and that has arms. I believe on the Ground Floor, there's a space that you described that is really designated for the Techmark. And then the Techmark does have an agreement with the city, the Techmark has, I believe, about a thousand spaces in the convention center parking garage. And so one of the active projects that the city is currently engaged in is implementing paid parking in the convention center. And so, we're looking at various models, kiosks and, and things of that nature.

And and as a part of that system that is implemented, the Techmark will be given passes or a way to register so that you can have your your contractual spaces. And so we will be able to have a enforcement mechanism for the lots that the city controls. There are are oftentimes ways that that same system can be utilized for the private portions of the lots. And so that portion that Techmark controls, we can have our public works department, reach out to to to Techmark because we can, potentially put a similar system there that will allow you to to help manage that and have have an arrangement there. I think with regard to the prior process pre COVID and and how citations were were issued on that private property lot, I can't speak to that.

I know that sometimes that is a challenge, and, cities really can't enforce on private property without certain arrangements. And so I see the chief reaching for his microphone. So I'll turn it over to him.

That that lot actually is it's all city owned. So none of it is we only own the building. All the other parking, including the surface, is owned by the city, which is why they were able to, enforce it before. And we know that tickets were issued because tenants would come to us and say, I have this $40 ticket, and we tell them, sorry. You have to pay it for the season to come after you. So, since COVID, we noticed it hasn't been enforced. There we haven't seen anybody kinda coming around chalking the tires and just making sure that people park like they're supposed to.

Totally. So stand corrected on that, and we can we we can look at then including that lot Yeah. In our paid parking program.

Yeah. I think that would be great. Just a way for us to just better control it. Obviously, for our tenants, it's a different setup in terms of, you know, pay or no pay, but we definitely want just a better way to control the surface areas. The ones that have the gated arms, we don't really have a problem with it. It really is just the more the surface area where we're relying on people to be honest and have their permit tag. That means somebody coming by and making sure they have a permit tag or they aren't parking over the the time limit that that's posted.

Perfect. Thank you.

And staff just told me that that flat area is included in our parking program analysis. So I also just wanna appreciate the public comment, about, stuff in the garage. Right? Because we we oftentimes hear that. Right? My joke that I always say, you know, we're Americans. We store stuff in our garage, not cars in our garage. Right? And so, you know, the city really doesn't have a way to regulate that private property use. And so unless there's an HOA that can have rules that can dictate that, you know, that that's part of the reason why the city can really only, provide a certain amount of parking passes per dwelling unit.

We can't differentiate based on how people you utilize their property and what their built environment looks like.

Anybody else? Just takes Real quick. Is there anybody else from the public that wants to speak? Or

Just to explain what what the city manager meant by that. When I first moved here in 1985, we looked at living in Sunnyvale, and they had rules about how many people per bedroom that you could have, and that was struck down as unconstitutional.

Alright. Anybody else? And just just wanna make a quick comment before we get, Molina to close this out here. But there's been ten years, a little more of of the stadium being open. Right? So there's there's information that at our police department or public works, city staff is aware of, and taking that and hearing your input, making sure that we can have something. Because what we hear is there are issues or concerns. Right? Maybe there's not one perfect plan or parking program for everybody, but we'll see what we can do to to hopefully bring something in that way, another ten years. I I don't wanna wait another ten years.

I'm sure you you don't either. And we wanna have our our, our tools more tools for our police department and city staff to be able to really bring bring you the, the quality of life that you that you desire. Sure.

A few more closeout, comments. I do think that there was a member of the public that mentioned the desire more for a residential parking program given the daily parking constraints in communities. So we're certainly taking that feedback. I will say that as time goes on, cities are looking at propping up their RPP programs because new development standards now really give developers the right to build housing, with very little, if not no parking. And so just parking challenges in general in in urbanized areas are are are coming to a crux.

And so we very well may see more and more cities want to implement RPP, residential parking programs, because of the the the tight parking network. I think that there was also mention, can cities do studies? Yes. Prior life, I I've I've been a part of them and have read them when consultants do them. Interesting enough, when you take a typical area and you count how many dwelling units are on the street, anytime you have more than single family homes, there's frankly, not enough parking stalls even if you were to give every house one space.

I mean, one parking permit. Right? And so when you give two, three, four, five, you know, if you keep going up there, you're you're actually giving out more spaces than are on the street. Right? And so if you're really looking to solve that daily parking issue, you really need to sort of bite the bullet and reduce the number of permits you give to people because that's really the only way you're gonna have an impact on actually freeing up freeing up spaces.

Penalties were mentioned, and staff did note that we are looking to potentially increase the penalties. I will say that that comes at that has positives and negatives. One of the, realities of a of of the stadium is that we no longer do paid parking upon arrival. Right? That that doing paid parking and having people pay by credit card or or cash creates a traffic issue and a loading and a queuing issue, and so we do prepaid parking.

What oftentimes happens is, let's say, we sell we sell the parking space for $75. Well, that's bought up. For a a, a very popular event, it's resold, on on the resale market for $200 to $300. Right? And so as we look at what fine schedule it is, right, if our parking pass if if the the first, if we sell a parking permit for $75 and the fee is $75, that may not do it.

And so we really if that is going to be one tool that we use, we may need to look at very elevated parking fines that also come with, you know, everything's a double edged sword. Right? The first time a guest or a resident, gets that that that high level of fine and because they've exceeded their number of permits, there are significant, concerns about that. So I I just wanna toss that out. And so we will close out today's feedback session.

I I I tried to count the number of, community members in the room, sort of, you know, somewhere between ten and fifteen. I do think that we need to, discuss with staff about other communication and feedback vehicles, potentially doing a survey of the community on on the various models. Oh, I also had a note here about there was a desire to have a free if there are park if there are parking permits, have them be free. Totally understand that sentiment. One of the things the city would have to grapple with is why did every why does every other neighborhood in the community that has a, parking program have to pay for their permit?

And so we would need to grapple with with with with that equity lens as well. So I'll stop there, and I'll turn it over to Paulina. Thank you.

Thank you, city manager. Thank you, council members. Thank you, staff, and thank you for the community for coming out and participating and giving us your feedback on on parking and all the concerns that you have. Next or the last slide. So just to make sure you guys are aware, we have a website for the stadium neighborhood relations subcommittee that you guys could follow us and sign up for updates so that you can get updates on the next subcommittee meeting.

We are looking at having it in May. This room will be used for the election, so we're gonna have to do it before the election. So before, I think, May 21, but we will update the website once we finalize that. We will be hoping to share with you guys impacts for FIFA similarly to how what we did with Super Bowl, so what those closures and impacts will look like. And then as city manager mentioned, we will be providing the stadium financial overview, how we make the revenues, where the money goes, where who pays for what expenditures, all of that.

And then, hopefully, we will also bring back an update on the parking overlay program and the park residential parking program and some feedback for that. So that ends the meeting, and I'll turn over to the chair.

Yeah. So I think that does is there anything else councilwoman Hardy? Anything else? So yeah. So thank you for being here, and definitely let others know for our future meeting. Really, it takes the public to to help us and engage with us to make sure that we get things right and definitely that that impact is really something that we take it take into account. You know, we we obviously take our staff and and our our police department into play how we can implement things, but this is one thing that we wanna make sure that we it's not gonna be perfect, but we gotta move in that direction to get it right. I think even if it was a pilot program sooner than later, I think I'm I'm amenable to that. Maybe nothing but council or or staff, but we'll work on that. But thank you for being here tonight.

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