Parking In Common;
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All submissions made from this form will be discussed and debated as a part of a Parking In Common proposal by the Downtown Association.
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2024, Parking In Common Clarification and Consideration Conversation with Lake Havasu City
The newly re-formed 'Downtown Association' has been engaging in regular discussions with Lake Havasu City officials regarding the current conditions and issues surrounding the Parking In Common area of Downtown Lake Havasu.
This is in response to a growing number of concerns being raised about both parking availability and quality downtown.
As a result of these discussions, The Downtown Association will be holding a closed town hall between property owners and business owners within the district to discuss potential necessary changes/solutions for the Parking In Common area as it stands today.
Our only goal with this project is to give a platform for conversation and negotiation between neighbors; not to advocate for any specific change to PIC as an organization.
We hope to provide necessary information to all attendees and provide a possible path for instituting changes in order to better adapt to the business needs of Main Street as we continue to develop into the future.
Details of the date, time, and location of this meeting will be confirmed in the near future.
Parking In Common: All you'd ever need to know
In 1964, the Downtown District of McCulloch Blvd was founded by Robert P. McCulloch and with it came a document titled "Declarations and Reservations" which established the zoning code and development standards for all properties within the borders of the Downtown District.
Declarations and Reservations; 1964
1964, Consequences of Declarations and Reservations;
The lots and tracts described in the document above encircle an area encompassed by the roads Mesquite Ave, Swanson Ave, Smoketree Blvd, and Acoma Blvd.
The final paragraph of this document describes a system where certain sections of land are considered a commercial development zone for businesses and buildings and other sections will be reserved into perpetuity as a public easement/egress dedicated to services and utilities for the benefit of the common good of the district. This means Parking, Landscaping, ADA compliant passageways, etc.
This easement/egress also comes with a special exemption to normal parking standards which allows for prospective developers to be only required to develop the amount of parking spaces which they need in order to operate their business, rather than the usual number of spaces required by city code.
This deal was designed to reduce the construction costs of parking for prospective developers as well as being a potential future solution to parking overcrowding as the district continues to develop.
The properties on this map that are East of Acoma, West of Smoketree, South of Mesquite, and North of Swanson, AND are colored in the blue 'Parking In Common Filter' are the properties described by and subject to the above declarations.
Properties within this area and NOT colored in blue have gotten themselves exclusively removed from Parking In Common entirely.
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These properties (such as the Mesquite Medical District and the Salvation Army lots) are responsible for upholding the normal parking standards of the rest of the city and do not benefit from the reductions provided to the other businesses in the Downtown District.
1994, Parking In Common Masterplans:
In 1994 the Uptown Association formed in an attempt to improve streetscape and parking conditions in the then called "Uptown" district.
As a result of these efforts, the 1994 Master Parking Plans for all of McCulloch Blvd were approved by city council and have been used as the development standard for the area ever since.
NOTE: Development of any individual property described within these master plans are not exact 1 - 1 recreations of the plans, but rather are considered a standard for which all businesses in the district must loosely develop into.
Differences between these maps and reality are common and expected over 30 years of independent development, but the general principles of our development standards are still based on these maps drawn in 1994.
2024, Parking In Common Codes provided by Lake Havasu City Development Services
Other Actions to Parking in Common;
Here is a list of all known actions taken changing or reducing Parking in Common since its inception in 1964.
Amendment
1997, Salvation Army Lot Exclusion;
PICA-95-004; Request to amend the Uptown Master Parking in Common plan to remove the parking requirements for tract 1056, block 4, lots 1 through 5 for development by Salvation Army.
Amendment
2006, Schlotzsky's amends their specific section of the Master Plans in order to be allowed to build a drive through which is now operated by The KAWS & Wild Coffee.
Exclusion
Pre-1994, Entirety of the Mesquite Medical district not included in the Parking In Common district area, this area is subject to the normal parking standards of Lake Havasu City and is not included in a Parking in Common agreement area.
Exclusion
Pre-1994, Selberg & Associates @ 2130 Mesquite, pre-emptive exclusion from Parking In Common Area of lot located north of the unnamed grass parcel on Querio. The lot is subject to normal parking standards of Lake Havasu City.