• A high-density housing project “The Olivia on Marsh Creek” has been approved across the street from Stranahan with insufficient onsite parking.
• 81 units will be built with less than 100 parking spaces for the whole complex.
• Only 5 guest parking spaces with limited handicapped parking.
• Census data shows approximately 37% of Clayton residents have 2 cars, and about 58% have three cars or more. There is no reason this project will be any different.
• Clayton's parking standard is 2.23 parking spaces per unit, consistent with current census data. This would mean 180 to 250 cars for the Olivia project.
• The parking study presented by the developer, and accepted by the city, of 1.1 parking spaces per unit was based on a 2008 parking study of a 55+ age-restricted community in Pennsylvania.
• This project has no age restriction and is not a 55+ senior housing project.
• 100+ additional cars without on-site parking spaces will come to your neighborhood.
• 36 two-bedroom units and 45 one-bedroom units have been approved. With the possibility of 45 more high-density housing units being placed on the Hoyer property.
• Only 7 units will be restricted as low-income; the rest will be leased at market rates, which means a two-income family and at least two cars, not one.
• Spillover into the neighborhoods and downtown is guaranteed.
• Clayton has limited bus service, so taking the bus to work is not viable.
• We must place the burden on the developer and the city, not the citizens.
• If a Parking permit sticker is required – A no-fee program will be requested for the residences due to the city approving this project. In addition, the developer supposedly committed $2,500 to institute a parking permit program.
• The parking permit program will only commence when the developer starts construction. (Once he starts, the program is activated.)
• Once the project is built, it will be too late to try to place restrictions on parking.
• A citywide parking permit program would ensure that spillover from the
proposed high-density projects would place the burden on the developers.
• Developers need to provide adequate onsite parking.
• Parking should be the developer’s responsibility.
• Developers should not affect neighborhoods.
• Spillover parking should not be allowed in neighborhoods.
• The city council needs to take immediate action.
• The council did not listen to the residents.
• The parking study was a joke.
• Downtown business will be affected.
• The post office and city park will have limited parking if renters are allowed to park overnight.
• Neighborhoods will be littered with unwanted cars in front of their homes.
• Why wasn’t a parking study done in California?
• The project is not senior housing, why is it referred to as one?
• Three stories are unacceptable at its current location.
• The project will harm Clayton.
• There will be 100 to 250 new cars looking for a place to park.
• We must place the burden on the developers and the city, not neighborhoods.
• Most people and families have at least two cars.
What was the council thinking?
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In a nutshell, we were all lied to. No wonder the recent survey shows that Clayton residence don’t trust their city Council.
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