The public is invited to comment during the 6 p.m. City Hall meeting.

Currently, businesses have to provide enough parking on-site - or within 300 feet in some instances - to meet the demands of expected traffic.

But the amendment would enable Real Salt Lake, and others in need of temporary-event parking, to rely on off-site stalls with the Planning Commission's approval of a parking-management plan.

RSL has been asked to provide at least 1,000 parking stalls within a five-minute walk of the stadium and identify an additional 4,300 within a 15-minute walk. It must do so by securing agreements with area landowners.

The team also must ensure that parking won't occur on residential streets.

Nick Duerksen, the city's assistant director of community development, expects the commission to "tweak" the amendment before forwarding it to the City Council for consideration on Tuesday.

At its last meeting, the commission declined to approve the team's current parking-management plan, asking that further detail and assurances be provided about how pedestrian traffic will be handled to and from the stadium.

Approval for off-site parking will only be granted on a temporary basis, Duerksen said. Eventually, Real Salt Lake, through development of its planned mixed-use project around the stadium, would have to provide all parking on-site.

Duerksen expects that requirement to come within five years of the stadium's opening, slated for summer 2008.

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