Item - 2025.IE22.3

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee:

1. Deferred Item IE22.3 - Revised Free-Floating Car-Share Program, and directed the General Manager, Transportation Service, to report to the September 26, 2025 Infrastructure and Environment Committee meeting on the findings of the consultations including any possible solutions for identified high-demand areas that have taken place as part of the forthcoming supplementary report on the Revised Free-Floating Car-Share policy.

City Council on June 26 and 27, 2024, referred Item IE13.4 to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee for further consideration with the Parking Strategy in the first quarter of 2025, and requested the General Manager, Transportation Services, in consultation with other appropriate City Divisions, to report on the following:

a. the impact of allowing an expanded free-floating car-share program outside of permit parking areas / streets in the development of the Parking Strategy;

b. the impact of allowing an expanded free-floating car-share program outside of permit parking areas / streets on winter maintenance operations;

c. the possibility to continue to enforce parking regulations when car-share vehicles are in use;

d. the options for free-floating car-share vehicles dropping off and picking up off-street parking arrangements, rather than solely in public locations designated for permit parking under Municipal Code Chapter 925; and 

e. the development of a communications strategy on the expansion of the free-floating car-share program outside of permit parking area / streets.