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Perhaps the most significant agreement involves the property at 234 Main Street: the door on the back of this building currently swings out and over a concrete stoop, encroaching into the public right-of-way. This creates one of the aforementioned "pinch- points." The City's Building Official determined the back door is not a required fire egress as had previously been assumed. Subsequent discussions with the property owner resulted in the owner agreeing to have the swing of the door be reversed so it opens into the building, and the door stoop removed. Again, this will require a right-of- entry agreement to perform the work on private property. Staff and HMH completed the design development to the point that both are confident that the concrete bicycle and pedestrian trail can be designed to have a minimum width of 10 feet. On the east side of the trail (retaining wall side) there will be a 1-foot wide decomposed granite (DG) buffer area. While this buffer area will only be half of the desired dimension, it will still have a comfortable feel for trail users as the wall relief features are being removed from the design and the light standards will be offset as described. The DG area will include some flush-mounted drop inlets for stormwater. Having the inlets in the DG area will make them easily accessible in the event maintenance requires they be excavated. The DG will also allow differential movement between the concrete trail and the retaining wall, which will reduce the potential for concrete cracking. On the west side of the concrete trail, the minimum width of the buffer will be 2 feet. This area will be sloped in various locations to make up the elevation differences between the trail and the private property as described earlier, but will not be too steep as the grade transition will extend onto the adjacent private properties in the easements discussed earlier. The buffer areas on the west will have low-growing landscaping planted for aesthetics and to maintain the stability of the sloped soil. While this will not be the flat, empty buffer area as depicted in the Bicycle Pedestrian Master Plan, it should not interfere with trail use as it will allow those using the very edge of the concrete path to still feel comfortable, and users will not encounter any bicycle handlebar obstructions along for the west edge of the trail. The design modifications required to achieve the trail cross section of 10 feet, with a one- or two-foot buffer as described, will result in the loss of two of the proposed parking spaces. The new total will be 139 spaces, or an increase of 79 compared to 81 spaces as presented to City Council on June 18. By moving the light standards off-center from the top of the wall, their concrete footings encroach further into the parking lot area. While they are rotated 45 degrees to minimize their interference with the usable width and length of the parking spaces, they do still interfere. To mitigate the inference, the width of the parking spaces along the retaining wall vary slightly. Some will be wider than 8.5 feet as was presented to City Council on June 18. Adding width to several of the parking spaces as described results in the net loss of two parking spaces. HMH has been working with City staff to determine how the biddable plans and specifications must be revised in order to achieve City Council's advised direction. To move forward from this point, it is recommended that the amendment, which adds $28,000 to the HMH professional design services contract, be approved by City Council. This amendment will cover the cost of the redesign work since June 18, and the cost of Page 3 of 4