There’s a new plan to reduce the amount of parking required for a proposed $75 million apartment building near the Kansas University campus, but it is producing some of the same old concerns for neighbors.

City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will consider allowing a Chicago-based development group to eliminate 100 parking spaces from its plan to build a new apartment project that would have 624 bedrooms at 1101 and 1115 Indiana St.

Commissioners in October rejected a similar request from the company, citing concerns that allowing the project to be built with the less-than-required amount of parking spaces would put too much pressure on the adjacent Oread neighborhood.

But the development group now says it has reached preliminary agreement with KU that would allow tenants of the apartment complex to park in KU parking lots, with the proper university-issued permits.

The city’s planning department is recommending approval of the 100-space parking reduction, but some neighbors believe the new plan still will create parking problems for the Oread neighborhood.

“It absolutely is unworkable,” said Candice Davis, an Oread resident who opposed the company’s parking reduction request in October. “The idea of reducing parking in dense neighborhoods is utterly ridiculous. It blights the neighborhood.”

Jim Heffernan — a representative of the project’s development group, HERE, LLC — declined to comment Friday.

But in a letter to city officials he explained how the latest reduced-parking proposal would work. He said vehicle-owning tenants of the apartment complex would be required either to have a permit to park in the private parking garage that would be part of the development or a university permit to park in a KU lot.

HERE has reached an agreement with KU parking officials that will allow HERE to verify their tenants have KU parking permits. Once a year, HERE officials would share that documentation with the city to prove that tenants have arranged for parking.

But Davis said HERE’s proposal isn’t taking into account that KU parking lots already are at capacity in many instances. A parking permit doesn’t guarantee its holder a place to park, but rather just the right to park in a spot if one is available.

“KU’s parking lots already are brimming over into the neighborhood,” Davis said.

Information provided to the city didn’t include any analysis of how full KU’s parking lots are currently.

Heffernan previously has said the project — which also would include about 13,000 square feet of retail space along Mississippi and Indiana streets — has had difficulty attracting the necessary financing. He has said the parking exemption is “vital” to the future of the project but has stopped short of saying the project won’t be built if the exemption isn’t granted.

He’s also argued the apartments will attract a significant number of residents who don’t have cars, but instead will rely on bicycles, walking and public transportation. City commissioners in October said they were not sure those assumptions would hold true.

At their Tuesday evening meeting, commissioners also will hear a proposal by HERE to build about 110 angled, metered parking spaces along parts of Mississippi and Indiana streets. The spaces would be public parking spaces, although HERE is asking to have exclusive use of the spaces for 12 days a year to accommodate tenants moving in and out of the apartments during the busy times of year.

The spaces would be the only ones provided to accommodate the approximately 13,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and other commercial uses that could locate in the building. The city would be responsible for monitoring the meters, although a city memo suggests the responsibility could be turned over to KU.

Commissioners meet at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.