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Regional Parking Inventory Every two years, during the months of March through June, the Puget Sound Regional Council inventories all off-street parking in the Central Business Districts (CBDs) of Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Everett and Bremerton, the Seattle First Hill and lower Queen Anne neighborhoods, the University District, and some selected ferry terminals: Bainbridge, Kingston and Southworth. Information is collected on the number of stalls, occupancy and parking costs of each lot inventoried. The types of lots inventoried include off-street public and private parking, free and pay, carpool and vanpool, motor pool and customer parking. The Regional Council has been conducting the parking survey since the late 1980s. The CBDs of Seattle and Bellevue were first surveyed in 1987; First Hill and lower Queen Anne were added to the inventory in 1989. The CBDs of Seattle and Bellevue, and First Hill and lower Queen Anne areas were all surveyed in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1999. In 2002, the CBDs of Tacoma, Everett and Bremerton, the University District and the ferry terminals were added to the survey because of improvements to the travel demand forecasting models and the need for incorporation of a larger study area. Few modifications were made to the existing areas in 2004 with the exception of the University District and Bremerton CBD expanding to match Urban Center boundaries. Boundaries remain the same in 2006. The parking survey is intended to support the needs of individuals working with parking policies and parking supply management. The federal Clean Air Act and state Commute Trip Reduction Act require that local governments and large employers take a closer look at commuter travel to and from our central business districts and formulate policies to reduce the environmental impacts of commuting. The state's Commute Trip Reduction Law requires certain jurisdictions in the region to review their parking policies and, where appropriate, revise them to support commute trip reduction. For these reasons, planners and policy makers can benefit from the information provided by this survey. In 2006, a report will not be written. Instead, spreadsheets of the data will be provided. The spreadsheets provide the survey data at the tract, block and block group level. Included in the data are occupancy counts, number of stalls, cost information and type of parking. Occupancy is calculated by averaging a morning and afternoon count of the same lot based on the numbers of stalls within that lot. Costs are weighted by total number of stalls, but are based on only those lots that have costs associated with them. Previous years will be added to the website as they are completed. Please note that the data in the spreadsheets may not correspond with the written reports due to revisions in the data.
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