NOTICE TO AGENCY EMPLOYEES IN THE ROSSLYN AREA PARKING OF PRIVATELY OWNED VEHICHLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000600100018-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NOTICE TO AGENCY EMPLOYEES IN THE ROSSLYN AREA
Parking of Privately Owned Vehicles
1. Tt has been brought to my attention that a petition has
been circulated among Agency personnel in Key Bui.Tdi.ng, Rosslyn,
protesting the lessor's planned parking rate increase which will
become effective 1 May 1975. The Agency's management. can sympa-
hize with-the employees of Key Building who are being forced to
bear .another financial burden on their already inflation-shrunken
real income. Also, it is understandable that this financial burden
is another "penalty" for those employees in outlying buildings who
feel that they are out of the main stream of, imagined or real,.
.benefits enjoyed by other working at the Headquarters Building.
However, all the expressed sympathy will not alter the facts govern-
ing the U.S. Government policy regarding the question of employee
parking.
2. The purpose of this notice is?to provide same basic
clarifying information concerning the Key Building lease, its rele-
vance to employee parking, and General Service Administration's
(GSA) position as to parking privately owned vehicles in leased
buildings. GSA, .being the official U.S. Government housekeeper,
and landlord, negotiates the lease with the Lessor. Generally,
GSA does not have the authority to lease parking facilities for
Federal employees. However, under certain conditions and circum-
stances, parking may be leased by GSA in connection with the leasing
of space to be assigned to Federal agencies. Some of the conditions
under which parking may be leased by GSA and furnished employees
are as follows:
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a. Where an analysis of .alternate offers-received from a
prospective lessor in response to an Invitation for Bids for
a Solicitation for offers shows that the amount of the. offer
including the specified employee parking is not greater than
the offer without parking. This was the case of the lease of
area. and in our initial
lease at 1000 North Glebe, the Broyhill Building.
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b. Where local ordinances or zoning laws require a build-
ing`to provide off-street parking for tenants and visitors to
the building, and such ordinances or laws require, in effect,
that-the cost of parking be included in the rental for the
office space.
c. Where it is determined that in order to employ and
retain personae to perform the work of the agency or agencies
at a particular location, and thus avoid a significant impair-
ment of the operating efficiency of the agency or agencies,
parking spaces for vehicles of employees used to provide trans-
portation to ao.nd from the place of work may be furnished by
-the Government. Factors to be considered in making this deter-
mination are as follows:
1. Daily hours of employment, including amount and
time of any overtime operations, number of employees on
duty durir~~ such overtime work, and adequacy of public
transportation during regular hours and hours of overtime
work.
2. Daisy time schedule of available public transpor-
tation including frequency of service during peak demand
by employees.
3. Necessity for leasing space for an agency or
agencies at a location where public transportation %s
inadequate.
4. The location of the leased facility in relation to
the geographical area where the residences of the majority
of the employees are situated, and .the availability and
frequency of public transportation, the estimated time
taken to get to and -from work, and the cost of such trans-
portation.
5, The amount of both on- and off-street parking
available to the emplayees in reasonable proximity to the
leased space, the cost of off-street parking and the impact
the additional demand by the employees will have on such
parking facilities in terms of added cost and availability.
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6. Other factors considered relevant to the particular
lease situation, e.g., environmental factors involving
safety of employees using public transportation.
d. In those instances where the Government leasing of
parking facilities for Federal employees cannot be justified,
lease negotiations will be directed toward including a provision
in the lease that a specified number of parking spaces will be
made available by the lessor for the Federal employees.at a
stated monthly rate to be determined by the lessor. In
Arlington County where the Key,.; Magazine and Ames buildings are
located, the local codes specify the number of parking spaces
to be provided i.n or adjacent to a building, depending on the
number of gross or net square feet contained in the building,
the lessor, as a minimum, shall make available to the Federal.
employees who will work in the building a proportionate share
of the total parking spaces required by the applicable code or
ordinance, depending on the amount of space in the building
that is to be leased by the Government.
3. The parking areas in Rosslyn area leased buildings, except
for official parking spaces, which are included in the lease, are
owned and under the control of the Lessor, the Charles E. Smith
Company (CES Co.). The rates for parking in the Key Building are
set by CES Co. and are not controlled by GSA or the Agency. The
rates set by CES Co. are controlled by the o en market conditions.
A survey of GSA-leased, buildings in the area discloses-the following
parking rates per month:
Key Building, After 1 May 1975
$30
Ames Building
$20
- $25
Magazine Building
$22.50
- $30
Pomponio Plaza
$30
- $35
Architect Building.
$25
- $30
Pomponio Plaza East
$25
- $30
Commonwealth Building
$30
- $35
Nash Street Building, After 1 May 1975
(Foreign Service)
$33
- $36
The smaller rates are charged for small cars and inconvenient spaces.
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4. A spokesman for the CES Co. states that "It has been years
since the rates For parking in the Key Building have increased. The
cost of electricity for lighting the garage, labor for cleaning and
maintaining the garage, and the real estate taxes have increased
drastically." The projected increase in the rates is not~of pro-
portion to rates charged in other buildings.
5. The question has been raised on the petition as to the
terms of the contract between the CES Co. and the private (corporate)
occupants of the building. This, of course, would be private infarma-
tion and not under the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.
Historically, however, the Government is able to obtain more
-favorable lease conditions than private Lessors in the same build-
ing.
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