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about restaurants, I've mentioned it to staff before, the area between basically Cafe on <br />Main and now the new Starbucks, that section, if you're on the northern side so Pasta's, <br />Alberto's, Lokanta, you know between the area that they are at, the tree that's planted <br />beautifully and the bike lock thing, there is only one abreast. It is very pinch point and <br />frankly we may need to relocate where the bike racks are to facilitate that as well and <br />maybe that could be an option. <br />Chair Ritter: Be careful because the biker will say I want to see it from where I'm sitting <br />in the restaurant and that's why a lot of them are not in favor of corrals. <br />Commissioner Balch: But I do know there's a study out there that says not all bike racks <br />are used in the downtown, so.... <br />Commissioner Brown: Yeah, but having been on the bike /ped, the answer to that is that <br />you're not putting them where they can see their $1,000 bikes, right? <br />Commissioner Balch: I want to mention that when I actually got to the page, it does <br />have the parking in lieu fee as an item and it says, "Effectiveness high, etc., etc." so it is <br />a strategy identified by the consultants and it is on page 40. So you know, we're <br />probably not helping you out. <br />Beaudin: You're having the kinds of conversations that the groups who are looking at <br />this are having and especially when they overlap with some of the other planning efforts <br />that we're doing, I think it's consistent with what we've heard. Folks want to see some <br />supply. They want to see us planning for supply. They want to see us adding some <br />supply in the near term. People generally understand there is a perceived parking issue <br />if you consider all of the capacity. But, what I heard loud and clear from folks who are <br />running businesses downtown is, even though it is perceived and there is supply <br />elsewhere, folks just don't want to walk those longer distances and they don't want to <br />circle for spaces. So we're hearing that so we want to use management tools. We <br />talked about duration of parking times on Main Street. There are people who are for that <br />because it helps the turnover. There are people who hate that because it only really <br />allows you to do one thing rather than maybe lunch and shopping or nails, it's just lunch <br />unless you park on a side street. We heard that as a specific example when we were <br />talking with business owners' downtown. So we're going to have to grapple with all of <br />these things and prioritize the list. That's our job so we appreciate the feedback and <br />touching on some of these topic areas. I think it's perfect. Somebody's talking about <br />removing the bike parking at this location, keep the bike parking for this, I've heard all <br />from different folks so it's exactly the conversation that's happening in the community <br />about these issues. <br />Commissioner Balch: I commend you because it's about time. <br />Chair Ritter: It looks like a good study. We've used them before haven't we? <br />Beaudin: Yes, Fehr and Peers helps us out with... they do traffic analysis, they do bike <br />and pedestrian planning and they've helped us out quite a bit. They're working on it right <br />now. <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 34 of 39 <br />