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important location for parking downtown. She acknowledged the importance of an employees parking program and said the PDA is working on developing a program for presentation to the City staff. She indicated the enhancement of the Main Street bridge was an exciting project and will have a great impact on downtown to draw people into the area. She said the PDA would also like to have a gateway at the southern entrance of downtown, especially since there is consideration of a civic complex at the southern end of downtown. With regard to the suggested greenbelt connecting Main Street to Lions Wayside Park, she said the idea of closing Railroad Avenue is not supported. Traffic circulation problems would be too difficult to surmount. She again commended staff on the report and its suggested short term projects. Brent Wilcox, 3988 Stanley Boulevard, indicated there were a number of items in the downtown plan that will affect his mother's property and he looked forward to working with staff regard'rog that. He referred to the intersection of Stanley/Stanley/First and indicated that as that intersection is improved, the speed of traffic on "little" Stanley will increase, as it is already beginning to do. He thanked Council for all its work for the community. Rudy Johnson, 5655 Black Avenue, spoke in support of converting the fire station to a cultural arts center. He is working on fund raising for the center and he urged the City to move forward as soon as possible with architectural drawings and plans for the project so they can show that to prospective donors. He noted there is also much enthusiasm on the Youth Commission for this project and it is expected that a large number of young people will be involved in the use of the new build'rog. He and others are working to raise private funding and also to expand the Cultural Arts Council to provide a cadre of individuals to work as volunteers for the facility and to work on annual fund raising to help this function as an institution to benefit the community. There being no further speakers, Vice Mayor Dennis closed the public hearing. Ms. Dennis indicated the civic center is not on the list of short term projects and asked if consideration of that will be at another time. Mr. Swift said that is identified as one of Council's highest priorities and is covered in the Capital Improvement Program. The annotation in this staff report indicates the process is ongoing. Ms. McKechan indicated staff is working closely with the Downtown Association in this regard. Ms. Ayala asked if the relocation of Fire Station g4 was scheduled for 2004 and asked if there was something holding that up or does it just take that long to build the new station? Ms. McKeehan said it jnst takes that long. Staffwill move as quickly as possible. It was moved by Mr. Campbell, seconded by Ms. Ayala, to approve the list of short- term priorities for the Downtown Specific Plan as recommended in the staff report. Pleasanton City Council 9 10/15/02 Minutes