DEPARTMENT: Downtown Operations
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Jim Mery
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-wide
SUBJECT:
Amend Public Right of Way License Agreement for the Hertz Carshare Program
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes an Amendment to the License Agreement for the Use of Public Right of Way in support of the Hertz Carshare Program.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On March 29, 2012, City Council authorized a License Agreement for the Use of Public Right of Way in support of the Hertz carshare program (Ordinance #2012-03-29-0210). As part of that agreement, twenty-one existing, downtown metered and non-metered municipal parking spaces were identified for the exclusive use by Hertz for the carshare program. The carshare program provides "24/7" access to rent vehicles by the hour with fuel and insurance included in the hourly rate. The program is available to City of San Antonio employees, downtown employees, residents, and tourists. Hertz compensates the City of San Antonio for the use of parking spaces in the public right of way so that there is no loss of parking revenue to the City.
Starting with just three cars at three locations on March 29, 2012, there are now fifteen vehicles in nineteen downtown public parking spaces. In total, the program is now operating in twenty-eight public and private carshare locations; thirteen downtown locations; one at the San Antonio International Airport; five at National Tire and Battery locations; and nine at participating Walgreens stores.
The program has recruited over 1,700 registered users with just 17 percent (296 members) being City employees. Use of carsharing has been shown to reduce vehicle ownership and vehicle miles traveled which has a positive impact on pollution emissions, traffic congestion, parking demand, and public health.
Over the last eighteen months of the startup of the carshare operation, two of the original public spaces were lost due to other priorities, one l...
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