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Testing one, two, three.
How are we doing?

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She said, "Well, at least."
All right. So, are we

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I guess so.
I don't know. Are we online?

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We might be.
All right. Well,

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whatever. I will officially call to
order our special meeting of the Bvard

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City Council on Thursday, October 30th.
Welcome to everybody that has joined us.

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As always, it's great to see the public
and hopefully we are broadcasting and

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welcome to everybody that's watching us
online.

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This is a special meeting, so our agenda
is somewhat abridged. Madame clerk, do

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we have a quorum?
Yes, you do have a quorum. All members

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are present.
I will just introduce everybody that is

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sitting up here.
On my far right is our city attorney, M.

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Mckeler. Next to Mac is Councilman
Lauren Wise. Next to Lauren is

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Councilwoman Pamela Holder. Next to
Pamela is Councilman M. tomorrow. I'm

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Mayor Moren Copelof. On my immediate
left is our city clerk Denise Hodston.

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Next to Denise is Councilman and Mayor
Prom Gary Daniel. Next to Gary is

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Councilman Aaron Baker. And on the far
left is our city manager Wilson Hooper.

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Okay, with that council, you've got the
draft agenda. Are there any changes or

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modifications to the agenda?
Do I have a motion to approve the

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agenda?
So move.

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Second. All in favor?
I.

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Agenda is approved. We will move right
into public comments.

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Okay.
The public is invited to speak during

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public comment at this time only on the
item on the agenda for this special

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meeting. Anyone who wants to speak must
register with the city clerk, which is

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what this list is. When it is your turn,
step to the podium in front of city

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council. State your name and address
clearly. Limit comments to three minutes

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or less and avoid repetition.
Direct comments to the full council, not

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to an individual council member or to
staff. And I will give you a warning

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when you have 30 seconds left.
Okay. I will call people up in the order

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which you signed. Our first speaker is
Anne Hollingsworth.

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Do I need to bring this down?
Just like that.

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Like that. Yeah.
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Hello. Um, I know most of you, but for
those who don't know me, I'm Ann

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Hollingssworth and I live at 187 East
Main Street, downtown Breard. and my

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husband Danny and I own 78 South Broad
Street, which is occupied by Headline

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Salon.
Last week, we were out of town when you

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all had your uh regular monthly council
meeting, and we had just become aware of

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the issue.
So, we emailed all our concerns uh

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relating to why we did not want a
loading zone in front of headlines,

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cycle works, and looking glass reality.
I would like to personally speak with

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you now for the public record. Brooke
McCall, the owner of Headlines, has been

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in business at that location for 28
years. She has an established clientele.

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Many of her longtime customers are older
and can't physically walk blocks to get

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their hair done. She has told us she has
lost many customers because of the lack

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of parking. Now, another factor that I
thought of after I emailed you all is

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for not putting a loading zone is the
lack of visibility. When you come out of

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First Citizens Bank onto Broad Street,
the large tractor trailers would block

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the line of sight and this would be
extremely dangerous because of the speed

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people
come on Broad Street.

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And um that's all I have to say and I
thank you for your time and

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consideration.
Thank you, Miss Hollingsworth.

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Our next speaker is Doug Miller.

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that back up.
Hey, Doug Miller. I live at uh South

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Calwell Street and have a business on
West Jordan Street. So, obviously have

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an interest in this uh conversation and
I attended the committee meeting that

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you guys had to go over this again last
week. Was it this week or I don't

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remember. It was recently. Um [laughter]
and I just thank you guys for moving

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with such urgency on this. I do
appreciate the sense of urgency with

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which you're moving and I think that the
uh decision that was made at the last

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committee meeting was a good one. I
think there was some really good

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conversation. I feel like we came to a
good um balance between you know making

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sure that the businesses uh needs are
met and that the businesses who need to

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get deliveries needs are met and that
the safety of the folks that need to

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move around is [clears throat] taken
into consideration. Um we're not

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blocking any fire hydrants with this
decision. So I know that was a concern

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from the city but I think there was good
conversation. And I feel like ultimately

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that was a good decision.
[clears throat] So I'm here to say I

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support it. I think that's the right
move at this point to go ahead and put

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the loading zones in the places that
were recommended by the committee.

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Thanks.
Thank you, Mr. Miller.

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Our next speaker is Melissa Driver.

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Good evening. I know several of you, but
for those of you who do not know me, my

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name is Melissa Driver. I live at 370
Maple Street here downtown. and my

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husband Joe Driver and I own Cycle Works
which we recently opened back in July

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and are leasing from Paul Willander. He
owns the remainder of the building as

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well and I work for him as an agent. So
I use the building for multiple purposes

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and I appreciate that you all sent the
this item back to a special committee.

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So, I want to thank you for that because
that gave us the time to understand more

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about what was being proposed and also
discuss with that committee what we had

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hoped for as we all plan this downtown
master plan together that's beneficial

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for all of the businesses, not just
individual businesses. So, I appreciate

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having the ability to have that input
and not focus solely on where do we put

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food trucks, but also our livelihood as
a business and a new business and a

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retail storefront. So, thank you for
hearing us out at that committee

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meeting. I also am in agreement with the
the recommendation that came out of that

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committee meeting and I'm looking
forward to your approval of that

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recommendation to place the parking
loading zone away from our building and

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allow there to accommodate still the
remaining three spaces in front of our

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building. So, thank you very much and I
hope that you come to agreement with it.

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Thank you, Mr. Driver. All right. And
that is everyone that signed up for

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public comment.
All right, we will move on to unfinished

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business, the South Broad Street
restriping plan. And I guess city

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manager will be presenting.
I'll kick us off and then I'll throw to

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David to take us through the
alternatives that were discussed by the

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committee last week, including their
recommendation. Um, just as a reminder

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to you council, but also for the benefit
of our uh, audience in person and those

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who are watching the meeting online,
this evening's meeting is the result of

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your instruction from October 20th to
send the South Broad Street restrip

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restriping matter back to the downtown
master plan committee for

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reconsideration
and the need to have uh, you all confirm

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or not their recommendation as soon as
possible so that we can transmit

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to NC DOT and them to their contractor
before the contractor's upcoming

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completion deadline. Uh if we miss that
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cost of this restriping if we get it to
them on time, which this committee will

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enable us to do. Uh most the vast vast
majority of the cost will be borne by

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them. Uh so as I said before, downtown
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They reviewed their original proposal
from May, heard some public comments,

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including some of the folks who've
shared with you again today, and uh they

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reviewed several alternatives that were
developed by uh staff, and they

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considered an alternative that was
profered by heart of Bvard, which David

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will go over as well. Um finally, and
this is very important, the committee

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also considered
um information from the logistics and

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delivery industry, which Deie Harris
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one of her contacts to provide to us.
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a stakeholder that we didn't have enough
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they're an important one nonetheless.
And so I appreciate her bringing that

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information to the committee and it
informed our conversation uh quite

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helpfully in my opinion.
So before I throw to David, the one

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thing I'll say is that the logistics
folks that she brought information from

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agreed with us that none of our
alternatives are great. There's not one

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that's perfect and doesn't have some
trade-offs. Um, but I personally feel

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that the alternative which was chosen
has the fewest negative tradeoffs and

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for that reason I also agree that it's a
good way forward and so I'll now throw

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to David to take us through the various
alternatives if you would please sir.

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Yes sir. Mayor Council good evening.
First thing I would like to do is walk

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us through the current recommendation
and then I can show you the different

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things that we considered. So, the first
recommendation that you see, this is uh

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I made our mouse bigger so hopefully we
can see a little better tonight. This is

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Broad Street in Jordan with Maine up
here. What this proposal does or this

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option does is it takes the current ADA
space that is somewhere in this general

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vicinity and it moves it to the end and
it creates a 69 ft loading zone that is

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contiguous whereas before it was broken
into two spaces and it adds one

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additional 22ft parking space. So that
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option one of what we are asking you to
approve tonight and what was approved

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and recommended by the downtown master
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Option two,
I'm sorry, op this is not option two.

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This is part two. Part two would paint
the parking spaces that let me orient us

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again. This is Jordan Street and Broad
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spaces in front of Looking Glass Realy,
the salon, the bike shop that we're

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speaking about tonight back as they are
currently painted. It would move the

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loading zone across the street in front
of Eldridge Motors. This would be a 40ft

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loading zone. This would accommodate a
box truck, UPS truck, FedEx truck, those

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type of vehicles. I do want to go back
for just a moment to the first

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recommendation.
The 69 foot loading zone should

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accommodate
one of the I'm going to refer to them as

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the US Foods trucks. That's the kind of
mini tractor trailer looking trucks that

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we see around town. Those trucks are
approximately 50 ft long with a 14 foot

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loading ramp out of the back then with
another 5t for working space to get in

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and out of the ramp and then onto the
crosswalk. So we feel this would easily

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handle the largest of the US food
trucks. It would not handle,

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[clears throat] excuse me, it would not
handle a full-size, you know, 53 foot

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tractor trailer, but I' I've not seen
one of those try to unload in Bvard

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since I've been here.
So, that's two recommendations that are

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in front of you. What I'd like to do
next is just quickly run through several

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other considerations that we looked at.

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So, one of those is the option one that
we just looked at and recommended to

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you. Option two

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was a smaller loading zone. This reduced
the 69 ft loading zone down to 47 ft

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with a 22t parking space. Now, one thing
I I do want to just say for

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clarification, all of these numbers are
approximate. They're general. The GPS is

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not exact, and that's what we've used to
get some of these dimensions between

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this and a combination of field
measurements, but things may be a little

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smaller than what they're actually
shown. We typically would make that

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difference up in the largest space. So
the in this case, the 40 7 foot loading

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zone might be a little smaller, a little
larger. In the first scenario, the 69

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foot might be a little smaller, a little
larger. In this particular scenario, you

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add a second parking space. But the
downside is this is no longer large

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enough to accommodate one of the I'll
call it mini tractor trailers, the US

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food service type tractor trailer.

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The next option we looked at is what we
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downtown master plan committee which was
to leave the striping in front of

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looking glass realy blank and allow us
to place temporary paint to decide which

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parking scenario or loading zone might
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The let me just go back to that for a
second. The the con to this would be at

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some point we would be responsible for
painting that parking in and the

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thermoplastic as well as whatever
traffic control had to happen. So would

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not be a huge expense but it's
definitely an expense that the city

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would have to take on.

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Option four, we looked at converting
the entire area in front of Looking

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Glass Realy, again, the bike shop, the
salon into an 82 foot approximate

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loading zone. This would be uh more than
suitable for the mini tractor trailer.

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And it would move the ADA space that's
currently in front of Looking Glass

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Realy across the street and would add a
ramp with that parking space. It's very

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likely that [cough]
[clears throat] currently two parking

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spaces here that may result in the loss
of a parking space, an extra parking

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space. If we do that, we really need to
just get out there and place it. Make

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sure we have adequate sight lines in and
out of the driveways on both sides of

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looking glass motors. You can see
there's a driveway on each end. So in

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this scenario, if we assume that we
maintain the parking space, the two

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parking spaces here in front of Eldridge
Motors, there would be a loss of the

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three parking spaces on this side of the
road in front of Looking Glass Realy.

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Another option we looked at is what we
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Option 4A again has an 82 foot loading
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front of the salon and bike shop. It
leaves the spaces in front of Eldridge

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Motors alone, but it converts the last
space on Jordan Street into an ADA

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space. This space, in my opinion, is uh
very well suited for an ADA space

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because it's very flat, very centrally
located, has easy access to the

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crosswalk, but it is, however, a lot
further distance from the headline

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salon, which the current space is uh we
believe that's probably the primary

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user.
The next scenario we looked at, we'll

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call it option five.
Option five converts the spaces in front

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of Looking Glass Realy to a smaller
loading zone, a 60-foot loading zone,

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which would allow us to maintain one
parking space and it moves the ADA space

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across the street. The downside to this
scenario is the mini tractor trailer is

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64 feet from the front of the truck to
the end of the loading ramp plus the

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workspace. So the 69 ft would push the
driver of that truck and unless he

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pulled all the way up into this parking
space, it would push his unloading

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activities into the intersection,
probably blocking access to Jordan

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Street.
It does maintain one additional parking

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space here. So you have a loss of two
parking spaces with this particular

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scenario.

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Option 5A does the identical thing but
preserves the spaces in front of

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Eldridge Motors and moves the ADA space
up at the end of Jordan Street. We do

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have concerns that I'm going to go back
an option. If the ADA space in any of

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these scenarios is placed on this other
side of the road, we are potentially um

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this is kind of true in any case because
we don't know where folks are going, but

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if it was someone that was a client of
the hair salon, they are going to have

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to cross the road and back up. The
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it's hard to say majority of the
businesses are on the other side of

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broad, but in this particular area,
there are probably more businesses on

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the other side of broad.

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Option six that we looked at
creates a 55- ft loading zone moves the

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ADA space to the end of this range.
The 55 ft loading zone again has the

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same issue of not being able to
accommodate the mini tractor trailer,

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but it would easily accommodate one or
two box trucks. It also puts the

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accessible parking space in an ideal
location for folks at the salon and it

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maintains it if nothing else on that
side of the road.

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That's the options that we reviewed. The
heart of Bvard brought a another idea to

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the table.
[snorts]

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While I don't have that exact proposal
laid out, I do have the dimensions of

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that area that we can look at.

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Me just a second here. I'll try to make
this a little bigger. We can see it

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better.

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Okay. So, in this particular scenario,

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I've just laid some dimensions out here,
but what you currently have on East

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Jordan Street, so let me orient us
again. This is East Jordan Street. This

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is Broad. This is Coyote's right here on
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What you presently have in this location
are three parallel parking spaces that

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kind of run the length of the building.
They start down here where this driveway

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entrance goes in. They start 11 ft up
from that and you have three parking

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spaces that move up
32 foot from the corner approximately. I

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just measured off the uh traffic signal
pole. There is a fire department

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connection onto the building. There's
also a fire alarm control panel access

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door into the building that we
definitely would not want to block the

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fire department connection, but we also
probably would not want to block the

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door as well.
Here's a photo where you can see the

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this is the fire department connection
here. And I believe I've got another

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photo that shows the door.

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So, here you can see the fire department
connection and the door. Another issue

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of concern with East Jordan Street is
that it does have two lanes as you exit.

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So, it's got one lane if you're turning
straight or if you're going straight or

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turning left and it has another lane if
you're turning right. when they recently

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repaved the signal control loops for
that traffic light were brought a lot

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further down the street on Jordan. I'm
not exactly sure why that is. I suspect

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it has to do with the stacking count for
the light to change. So, this really

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pushes the usable space a lot further
down East Jordan Street, especially if

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you want to give cars space to drive
around any potential loading zone that

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might be there.

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to get stacked into the traffic count.
So those loops come down somewhere in

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this neighborhood where I'm showing my
area arrow right now.

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Mr. Hooper, is there anything else you
would like me to show [clears throat] or

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review with them? The other um thing we
brought up to the committee that they uh

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considered was the fact that the
downtown master plan uh foresees one day

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East Jordan Street being converted into
a road with a bike lane on it and we

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didn't want to foreclose on that
possibility by using that space as a

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loading zone. And then finally, with the
way that the road is oriented, one way

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going west to access that loading zone,
the trucks would have to drive a big

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loop uh around East Main Street, making
that tight right turn off of South Broad

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onto East Maine, or that conflicted, and
when I mean conflicted, I mean a turn

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that faces a lot of oncoming traffic
coming left off of North broad onto East

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Maine. And so just the traffic situation
that it would create by forcing trucks

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to drive all the way around the block to
get pointed in the right direction on

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that uh potential loading zone was
something that we brought up to the

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committee that they considered when they
were making their recommendation.

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[clears throat]

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Okay. Anything else, Mr. Manager?
No, ma'am.

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All right. Council, we are looking for a
decision tonight. Do I have a motion?

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Staff is recommending that you approve
the recommendations from the downtown

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master plan committee. Do I have a
recommendation to approve those?

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Do I have a motion?
A motion. Okay.

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Um, a motion that we approve the
recommendation from the committee um at

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this past meeting.
Do I have a second?

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Second.
Okay. We'll open it for discussion. Miss

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Holder.
Um I'm co-chairperson of that committee

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and um we did not take lightly
what needed to happen to

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uh not hurt businesses that would may be
affected by parking a truck there. But

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we know that loading zones are
necessary. And so the idea to take it

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across the street was a a good one. and
I felt like the best option and I'm glad

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that we were able to come to where we
are now to this point to move forward.

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Mr. Mororrow,
it seems like we found consensus as well

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and that's always good. [clears throat]
Mr. Weiss.

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Yeah, I think um someone stated there's
no perfect answer to this problem. Um, I

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think the original plan in front of
looking glass was perhaps the easiest

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for drivers, but um, we I think the
impacts outweighed the ease for drivers.

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And I like this solution in front of
coyotes

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because it also gets the trucks more
where they're likely to be needed. So,

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um, in in light of the not great
options, I think this is the best one.

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And I and I and I also appreciate the
downtown master planning committee uh

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giving this some extra thought.
Mr. Baker,

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yeah, just a couple questions. You
mentioned that we heard back from some

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of the comp logistics companies. Can you
just briefly summarize what they what

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their input was?
Um they agreed that putting it down the

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hill in front of the bank was probably
not a great option. And that was

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something that was discussed at the
committee meeting, but uh was put to bed

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pretty early because of the feedback of
the um logistics folks. Uh they also

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agreed that navigating over to East
Jordan Street and the large trucks um

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would be tough because [clears throat]
most of their traffic of course uses

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broad as the main artery in and out of
town. Um, and then they, as I said, also

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agreed that none of these solutions were
great, but that the one that the

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committee recommended was, as Council
Member Weise said, sort of the the least

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bad of the decisions.

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And have we had any other conversations
with the DOT contractor on their timing,

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or we're still kind of unsure of when
that might actually happen?

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We suspect it'll happen very soon. We
think that they lost a few days due to

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weather. Um and so their um deadline has
been extended by a few days. Uh so I

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think we're going to get in under the
deadline. But as for when they're going

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to actually be out there and install it,
probably within what the next two weeks.

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[clears throat]
They initially indicated they were going

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to start early this week.
So we were really pressed on time. So

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the weather helped us. So I suspect
they'll they're probably delayed on the

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job they were working on. I suspect
they'll start sometime next week if not

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early the week after is my guess.
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And of course they've got the whole, you
know, footprint of the entire project to

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do. And so I don't know what order
they're going to do it in, but they

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might not get to this part for a while
because they got to go from the college

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all the way to the Sunset Motel.
Yeah. Well, um, last thing I'll say is

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just thanks to the staff and the
committee for doing some last minute um,

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rescheduling and spending some more time
on this that they probably didn't uh,

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bargain on. So, uh, I think we've
reached a a good consensus and heard

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from the necessary uh, stakeholders and
I'm comfortable with moving forward.

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Mr. Daniel.
Yeah. Uh, this proposal comes to the

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council with a unanimous vote from the
downtown master plan committee and but I

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would like to state that my vote was
made with the intention of moving this

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uh proposal to city council.
Um, and I'd also like to remind the

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council that the downtown master plan
committee was formed to advise us on the

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implementation of the downtown master
plan. An issue that is politically

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fraught as downtown parking should
ultimately be the sole responsibility of

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this council. And indeed, that's what
this vote tonight will do.

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The issue I have with this proposal is
that it's essentially what's in place

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now. Uh it's the same proposal that the
downtown master plan uh made uh

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previously and was implemented and um it
obviously it doesn't work. Uh, I have a

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video on my phone uh from a week ago, a
little more over a week ago, of a

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tractor trailer parked on East Jordan uh
unloading

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and the uh loading zone in front of
coyotes was empty. They had the option

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to park there and they did not. Um,
and I [clears throat] realize that where

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to place these loading zones is a
difficult decision,

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but staff's proposal, original proposal,
which I believe is the most practical uh

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location
has craw caused great concern with the

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merchants affected by that location.
[clears throat]

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And although I understand why these
folks feel as they do, I truly believe

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that their concerns are largely
misplaced.

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Though it would be much easier for me
personally to go along to get along on

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an issue beset with peril on all sides
and an issue that can easily be

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rectified if it's later determined that
it needs to be. So, um, I was not going

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to be able to support this.
All right. All right. Is there any

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further discussion?
All right. Then I have a motion and a

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second. I will call for a vote. All in
favor?

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I.
Opposed?

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I.
Okay. Four eyes, one nay. Eyes have it.

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Motion passes.
All right.

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That was the only item on our agenda.
And with that, I just need a motion to

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adjurnn.
So move.

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Second.
All in favor?

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I.
We are adjourned. Thank you.

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All right.