In early 2017, the City of Topeka hired DESMAN, a professional parking consulting, to assist in the development of a long-term downtown parking master plan. The study scope includes a review of existing parking facility utilization and occupancy, projecting future demand, determining the capacity of the current parking system to absorb additional demand, and evaluating financial health of the parking system. The final Parking Plan will include recommendations designed to help the City’s Parking Division operate, maintain and manage Topeka’s public parking assets for the next decade.   Study Area and Parking Inventory The boundaries of the study area for the Downtown Parking Plan were developed by the City and intended to encompass all of the public parking in Downtown Topeka. In general, the study area for this project is SW 2nd Street as the northern boundary, Tyler Street as the western boundary, SW 12th Street as the southern boundary, and Adams Street as the eastern boundary.   Within the Downtown study area there are 9 public parking garages, 5 private parking garages, 6 public surface parking lots, 15 large, private surface parking lots, and several thousand on-street spaces. All told, within the Downtown study area, the following parking assets were identified:   2,057 On-Street Spaces 3,708 Spaces intheNinePublic Garages( 7 City-owned,1 State-owned,1 privately-operated) 560 Spaces in theSix Public Surface Lots 5,500 Private Spaces inFive Garages and 15 Large Surface Lots The previous report presented on September 12, 2017, summarized the existing conditions surrounding public parking in downtown Topeka, the public input process that contributed to this study, and projected future parking needs in the downtown study area.   Based on these findings, the attached report provides recommendations to address the current needs of downtown parking as well as anticipated future needs for downtown parking over the next 5- 10 years. A list of twenty-two (22) recommendations is provided to address current and future needs of downtown parking. These recommendations are discussed in detail in the attached report.   Key to these recommendations are the following policy assumptions:   1. Continuation of free-two hour on street parking along S. Kansas Avenue and associated side streets that currently have yellow hoods on meters.   2. Implementation of demand management strategies to better utilize existing parking supply available in on-street, garages, and surface lots. These demand strategies include changes to parking rates over time combined with other actions to better utilize supply.   3. Development of additional funding strategies beyond existing fees from meters, leases permits, and enforcement, to pay for plan recommendations and capital repair needs of parking facilities.