Enloe Parking Project City Council 2022 Update

At their October 19, 2021 meeting, the Chico City Council directed staff to begin striping streets and improving signs for parking in the neighborhood around Enloe Medical Center, but did not approve a three phase plan by Dixon Consultants for a preferential parking district.

Phase one of the plan recommended:

• that the City perform on-street parking striping to show where cars could park on streets, 
• better signs to direct drivers to the hospital’s parking garage and let people know that the hospital provides free valet parking, and 
• sensors and digital signs to show how full the parking garage is at any time.
• creating a preferential parking district that would give residents five passes and allow parking for two hours for those without passes. Permits would cost residents $26 annually, 
• parking enforcement through license plate readers mounted on parking enforcement officers’ cars, and  
• encouraging better hospital employee education about parking and mitigation through ride shares, car pooling and a ride home program.

Any plan for a parking district, further discussion or approval of the  three phase plan will come at a later date.

As of this post, we are told that parking restrictions are not being enforced, no striping or signage has been added, sensors are not in place in the parking garage and there is still no plan to set up a preferential parking district. However, there has been some movement to limit parking times around the perimeter of the hospital, especially near the emergency room.