REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Introduce an Ordinance to Create Chapter 19.47 (Off-Site Stadium Event Parking) of Title 19 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code to Add Off-Site Parking Standards and Regulations Related to Levi's (49ers) Stadium (2014-7021) and Find the Project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Guideline 15061(b)(3)
Report
BACKGROUND
In June 2010, City of Santa Clara voters approved a measure allowing the City of Santa Clara to lease land to the 49ers Stadium Authority to construct a new football stadium. Construction of Levi's Stadium began in April 2012; the completion date is set for summer 2014. The new stadium will contain 68,500 seats and can be expanded to approximately 72,000 seats to host major events (e.g. Wrestlemania, Super Bowl, and the FIFA World Cup). In addition, several thousand employees and players will be on-site for these events. The City of Santa Clara is negotiating contracts for approximately 21,000 parking spaces in the surrounding areas; however, not all the contracts have been completed and some of the sites they are in contract with are located further away from the stadium than properties located within Sunnyvale business park areas (Attachment 4).
In April 2013, the Sunnyvale City Council heard a presentation regarding the stadium project by the Stadium Authority. The Stadium Authority estimated that at least 73 percent of the patrons going to Levi's Stadium would travel to the stadium via automobile (roughly 50,300 people) and that there could be up to ten 49ers games and 17-20 non-NFL events per year. At this meeting, the City of Santa Clara's off-site parking ordinance (Attachment 6) was also discussed and the Council directed staff to work on an ordinance to regulate off-site parking for private parking lots within the City of Sunnyvale in conjunction with stadium events.
In August 2013, the City of Santa Clara released a draft Transportation Management and Operations Plan (TMOP) for Levi's Stadium. The...
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