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Chair Ritter: They did our last one, didn't they? Beaudin: We use other consultants too though. Just to be clear, they're popular but they're not the only ones. Chair Ritter: They did the Dublin one and I believe.... they know our area. Beaudin: They worked in Walnut Creek. They did the parking plan for downtown Walnut Creek which is a different animal than our downtown, but they've got a lot of experience with this work. Commissioner Brown: Yes, on the current revision of the Bike /Ped Plan, they were the only ones who provided a full response and part of the answer from the other is that they figured Fehr and Peers would put it in. One other comment I was going to make is Figure 10 —if you overlay that on the proposed locations for a parking structure, the Bank of America one looks like a candidate in that all three of those from a five minute walk perspective it targets whereas the Hardware site would be outside of the main treatment at Bernal. So it seemed to strike a good compromise, but in general, I'm really impressed with the report, the thoroughness of it, and I was quite pleased. I think it's more to Jack's point, Figure 11 actually shows that effective walkway that we were talking about, although I would challenge whether or not the yellow line Main Street is actually accurate. I would say that's probably red based on personal experiences. Commissioner Balch: I had one other additional comment which was the transportation corridor where we actually already have parking built out, specifically behind McKay's, possibly as you say a business establishment, I noticed the parking lot of the neighbor has a back curve, but it stops significantly shy -in fact there's a grade change —let's say a 15 feet grade change, then the parking we're actually utilizing on DG or gravel on that site, there's a very wide section where it appears where the owners are parking. Is that part of the transportation corridor that could be tapped into? Beaudin: I don't know exactly the location of the corridor but its 75 feet wide so it very well could extend beyond the top of the bank that's there and that slope. I would imagine that some of that is our property for the corridor. Commissioner Balch: And I understand we have the cleanup issue which is why I tread lightly about doing that, but you know, doing that, that corridor approximately from behind McKay's and where you have to make the right onto Bernal, it's only single wide where you've got... Beaudin: ... a perpendicular bar, and I think the plan does show having perpendicular parking on both sides, and my concern is I think they have not left us room for bike /ped improvements so we do need to look at that area a little more carefully as we refine the plan and finalize it, but there's likely supply to be had there as well. Commissioner Balch: Probably more simply than some of these other things we were so frown on. Beaudin: Yeah, I think the transportation corridor in general we're just having a hard look at. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 35 of 39