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And so I guess that would be my main question. It would be nice to at least explore the idea and vet it out and if the answer is a bad idea; if it breaks something, then I would certainly agree with the member of the public who spoke, Ms. Summers. I think it's an interesting idea anyway. And I would agree that as a plan we should be setting forth some goal of increasing supply. I would agree with that comment from Ms. Summers. Commissioner Ritter: It looks like two of the 10 strategies that staff has come up with recommend additional parking supply in the Downtown which is the most expensive part of the recommendation which is the parking garage so I like that we have at least eight others that we can actually concentrate on surface space parking. One thing that was brought up—I don't know, do we have any ordinance that prohibits delivery trucks of any sort on Main Street during certain hours or peak hours or any of that? Has that ever been an issue? Beaudin: No, we have loading zones and otherwise it's free parking available on a first come, first served basis. Commissioner Ritter: Okay, so that's not an issue, but when we do the design, I think it's important to incorporate the loading zone for drop-off and pickup for the over concepts. I think, you know, to have a 20 minute loading zone spot where you can pick up Uber or something if that's an option. And then, I am for paving the transportation corridor, but I would rather it be closer to Delucchi Park down at that end, just closer to the Downtown so it's easier to get more people Downtown. Like Commissioner Brown was saying, it's a long ways up there to walk if you want to go to Inklings or so. And then I do like the three-hour free parking. I think three hours is a good time. I thought about two but I think the concept of keeping the hours to three is that as an employee you can't park there and stay all day so I like that concept. And I love that we've got the short-term bicycle parking strategy built into the #9 option too. We can show that's easy to park your bike there versus driving a car and parking down there. It might be more people off the road. So those are my thoughts. In general, I appreciate staff's recommendations and I also think this updated plan is good. I just want to see it implemented faster. Commissioner O'Connor: Am I right in my understanding that the top 10 strategies are listed in the order of City priority? Beaudin: Right. Commissioner O'Connor: And I agree also that the transportation corridor—I think we'd get more bang for our buck there. The transportation corridor parking lots that I've driven through too is one thing I've noticed is there are a lot of people that walk to the two ends. There's not a lot of access directly into some of the other corridors that bring them down Main Street and I think that's something we should be looking at as we take out even more of these lots, is that we have more than the two ends of the lot as an access into the Downtown. That's my only comment on the transportation corridor. EXCPERT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 8, 2017 Page 6 of 10