JACKSON, Wyo. — During the Tuesday, Feb. 17, Town Council workshop, council members unanimously approved a motion to enforce a year-round three-hour parking limit in the Home Ranch lot starting April 15, a move intended to improve “vehicle turnover,” according to the staff report.
The three-hour parking limit in the Home Ranch lot was suggested to increase vehicle turnover in the town. Based on summer and winter occupancy at the Home Ranch, Town staff reports that “the parking garage has sufficient daytime and overnight capacity to accommodate vehicles currently using Home Ranch for stays of more than three hours.”
Originally, three-hour parking was going to be enforced for peak season only in the Home Ranch Lot, which, according to the staff report, runs from April 15 to Nov. 1. “Year-round three-hour parking would be consistent with adjacent streets, which are already limited to three-hour parking year-round and prohibit overnight parking from April 15 to November 1,” the staff report reads.
Other parking changes were included in the passed motion in addition to initiating the year-round parking limit at the Home Ranch lot on East Gill Ave. Those changes include implementing a 20-foot daylighting at 60 intersections and a 30-foot daylighting at five other intersections, adding an additional 15-minute loading area along Simpson Street adjacent to the parking garage, re-designating 14 unrestricted spaces to be ADA parking spaces over the course of the next two summers and to communicate these changes to the community and tour operators.
Daylighting is the act of reducing obstructions that prevent drivers from seeing other cars, pedestrians and cyclists at intersections. It refers specifically to marking or blocking off space ahead of a crosswalk. In Jackson, the red paint on curbs where parking is prohibited is an example of daylighting.
