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Beaudin: Okay, so let me keep moving and then we'll come back to comments, because if you all are going to direct us to do more work, we need to talk. Okay, how to implement. So we've got the implementation section that has both management and supply approaches over different time horizons. This slide has just a few examples, what I want to say is this is just a snapshot of the menu for implementation and what I want opt make even clearer here is we did it on kind of timeline with these buckets, these three categories, what we heard from Council is they'd like to see us prioritize the list a bit more rather than leave them in these broad buckets. So the idea is actually trying to identify what we should be doing sooner rather than later. So any help you want to give us in the implantation plan, there's a summary table of the parking strategies, page 4 of 8 in Appendix C. If you want to help us at all this evening, that would be good. If you have bike parking in the park as a priority, per Commissioner Balch, then we want to hear about those things tonight. We're on tour with this now, we're here tonight at the Planning Commission, and we're continuing to collect feedback. Commissioner Balch: Could I say a quick question because I see bike /ped on this. Were they going to get another bite at this apple or did their bite already pass and I picked up after that? Beaudin: Their bite happened. It's still a public document. People can send me, Shweta, Adam, Pamela, Mike Tassano, I mean anyone at the City, and you can send comments at any time. I don't mean to be flippant about that. We did make a presentation there and they did give us comments and feedback. I think the challenge that folks had was a lot of people were focused on other things at the time with some of the other issues that bike and ped are looking into and there's also this question about whether the DSP or the Ped /Bike Master Plan or the Parking Plan is the right place to talk about things. So what I've encouraged people to do is just send us your feedback because there's a lot of stuff that touches the downtown right now happening and we want to make sure ultimately these documents are going to feed into the DSP so it's not too late even after this is done to get things like parking locations for bicyclists into the DSP which is how we're going to implement things. Commissioner Balch: So if I may, maybe I can just make sure it's out of respect, but I'll pass on comments that I received from that meeting Monday to just voice their concerns and not my own and if everyone's okay, we'll go to ours. I'm not trying to usurp the process here. So their major comment was based on the estimated cost as you presented here that you look at the cost of a parking spot and the cost of a bike corral which is basically a spot designated now for bike parking is obviously much less in their view and that it parks 12 bikes to 1 car. So if you're parking 12 bikes, and the gentleman gave that information to Mr. Tassano, so I don't have that for your reference but the concept is you're getting 12 people out of their car and onto a bike. The other thing they mentioned in looking at the presentation and maybe I don't know if it was on target, but they mention there is no bike parking where you can see your bike and be visible on Main Street. When I look at this map, maybe it appears misplaced. It didn't seem like there was a lot so I don't know the context. And then one of the other things they were mentioning was, I guess it is similar to what you're saying, that basically the transportation corridor into the downtown that will allow connections PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 27 of 39