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HOPKINS DOWNTOWN PARKING PROGRAM
The City of Hopkins provides a variety of downtown parking, consonant
with the provisions of Ordinance 77 -427 as amended, which states in Section
427.43(3) that certain downtown land parcels are exempt from the City off
street parking requirements. The City provides five categories of parking
for the maximum convenience of visitors, shoppers, and employees: Customer,
Customer Permit, Reserved Space, Employee Permit, and Perimeter Permit.
These are described as follows:
1. Customer Parking This comprises the majority of available spaces,
with the greatest convenience and least cost. Parking is free,
with a two hour limit, in each of the following lots:
Lot 100
Lot 200
Lot 300
Lot 400
Lot 500
Lot 600
Lot 700
between
1,
11
11
11
7th 8th South
8th 9th
9th 10th
10th llth
10th llth North
9th 10th
8th 9th
42 spaces
78
65
131
104
86
55
561 spaces
11
11
There are also over 200 curbside parking spaces provided downtown,
posted for two hours or less. (In addition, the City through permission
of the owner provides 26 customer spaces on a lot at 8th and Excelsior,
pending construction). Capital cost of these lots was paid by businesses
through assessment or gift; maintenance is paid from taxes and the Parking
Fund.
2. Customer Permit Parking Some businesses have an extraordinary
customer parking requirement, exceeding the two hour free limit.
Such businesses may buy Customer Parking Permits, which are large
portable permit tags issued by businesses to long term customers,
who place the tags on top of their dashboards for the duration
of their stay, and then return the tags to the business. The cost
to the business is the usual premium fee of $12.50 per month, the
term of the permit being one year, paid in advance. All revenues
go to the Parking Fund. Customer Parking Permits are good in any
City customer (2 hour limit) lot, or in on- street parking spaces.
They are not good for overnight parking, and will not overrule fire
lane markings, handicapped designations, and similar regulations
that apply to all. If any such permit is used by employees of
downtown businesses for all day parking, the permit is null and
void and will be revoked by the City, with no refund paid.
3. Reserved Space The City presently has two lots for reserved space
leasing, at the usual premium rate of $12.50 per month, intended
for employee parking. One lot, at 10th and 1st North, has a winter
capacity of 87 and a summer capacity of 92. The other, located
west of the Crestland Building on llth Ave. So., has 40 spaces. All
revenues go to the Parking Fund, which is responsible for capital
cost and maintenance of these lots.
4. Employee Permit City Council from time to time designates portions
of lots which seem poorly used by customers to be employee permit
lots. Two such lots are currently in use on 2nd St. So., (26
spaces) and on 8th Ave. No. (11 spaces). Employees purchase
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quarterly permits at City Hall for $6.00 per month; space in the
lots is first -come, first served. Revenues go to the General Fund
to defray lot maintenance.
5. Perimeter Permit City Council has designated the area south of
County Road 3 as low -cost perimeter parking, accommodating approxi-
mately 200 cars. Temporarily holders of perimeter permits are
allowed to park on downtown redevelopment land between 9th and 10th
Ave. So., pending construction. The quarterly permit costs $6.00
($2.00 per month), the revenues going to the Parking Fund, which
originally paid for paving and striping the area south of County
Road 3.
Affirmed by City Council at the regular meeting of February 17, 1981.