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sidewalk that integrates some of the businesses and behind, etc. So just a comment on that. Chair Balch: Can I pause you a minute if I may? Can I just clarify with staff? As I recall, the original plan for this transportation corridor is almost to carry the parking lot that's at that Firehouse Arts Center---that same design further on. Is that correct? Weinstein: Yes, that's correct, and one of the greatest plans in the City that I think is often overlooked is the plan for the Railroad Corridor that includes both pedestrian and bike facilities but also parking, as well. So I think the intent here is to implement one of those top ten strategies, or the parking related component of that plan but to not to forget about the fact that it includes really important bike and ped infrastructure that needs to be integrated into the Railroad Corridor. Commissioner Brown: Yeah and the concern I have is, if you want me to get a bit more specific, like when I look at the design of that extension, I'm looking at Figure 10, right? So as an example it shows the pedestrian multi-use path is on the south side which is great for accessing the park where Concert in the Park is. But, if you were to say another purpose of parking is to feed the downtown which is I guess west towards past Railroad Avenue to Main Street, you're encouraging all of the pedestrians to go out into the park or First Avenue and not towards Main Street. And so as an example, if you were to replicate that to this "empty lot" that can be converted to public or employee parking, as an example, maybe you want the pedestrian parkway on the west side rather than on the east side, I mean...anyway, just take those things into account; that the transportation corridor should facilitate feeding downtown as well as feeding say, First Avenue and some of the events and things like that. So, again, I'm not trying to design from the dais. I'm trying to give constructive feedback. I was kind of fascinated with the one-way. I know the member of the public said don't break it. I'm not suggesting we do. So, I'm on the Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force as well and one of our homework assignments is to go and visit other downtowns. You mentioned Palo Alto and I was there and one of the things I noticed is that outside of the downtown on the side roads—those are one-ways, okay? So they have one- ways. I didn't notice the parking. I parked for free in a two-hour parking spot and they also implement some interesting strategies. Like on the main street, the parking, in alternating blocks, was diagonal and curb faced. So on one side you park on the curb and in the other direction you park straight in with angular parking. And on the next block it was the opposite. So I'm not a traffic and parking expert but surely there was a reason they were doing that and I thought that was kind of interesting. So the one thought I had about the one-way loop idea was that if you had a one-way loop you could turn some of these streets in between the two ends of that loop into one- ways and turn one of those lanes into parking as another way to get more parking space. So if I combine that suggestion from the member of the public, I think it was Mr. Jacobson, with the other request from the member of the public, notwithstanding the lady that spoke earlier, he was looking for a design target for the plan which is to say hey, we want to add at a minimum over the next 5 years another 150 parking spaces or some sort of goal to increase supply and I think you'd be hard pressed to find people in Pleasanton that don't want to see an increase in supply. EXCPERT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 8, 2017 Page 5 of 10