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Mr. Brozosky also confirmed that the modular buildings had been purchased. Ms. Hosterman felt it was important to continue to study and move forward with plans for the civic center site, especially in conjunction with everything happening downtown and the Bemal Property, if we want a cohesive picture of what that part of town will look like. She did not care if it took ten or twenty years. She wanted it to be really terrific and the only way to accomplish that is to continue the planning process. There is an oppommity for a magnificent entrance for that part of downtown. She supported the staff recommendations and thanked the Pleasanton Downtown Association for working on this and offering their comments. Ms. Ayala felt the last thing desired for a downtown entrance was a parking lot. Both concepts presented have parking lots. Ms. McKeehan indicated staff has talked about that and there is concern. However, parking lots can be hidden by landscaping. One of the design problems is that the police department needs a lot more parking and the only way to handle that is to camouflage the parking or put it underground, which is very expensive. Mr. Bocian pointed out the concept was to develop a pedestrian oriented pathway fi.om Main Street to the Library and on to the Bernal Property. In order to do that, the existing police parking had to be moved. Ms. Ayala asked if the proposed parking will take care of any of the downtown parking needs? Mr. Bocian said the site concept increases the parking for the civic center. One of the recommendations of the PDA was that more parking would be added on the central core of the site, rather than on the west quadrant. That would probably require a parking structure. It may be this will be a two-phased process where long-term there would be a parking structure, but for the short-term, library parking would be moved to the three-acre parcel. Mr. Campbell wanted to move forward with this process. It can only add to the greatness of the downtown area. City staff deserves good working conditions. Many demands are placed on staff and it would be a nice reward for the hard work. Ms. McKeehan appreciated those comments, but this is really not about staff. It is more about the entrance to Main Street. Mayor Pico would like to sell 157 Main Street and use the proceeds to acquire the three- acre parcel across fi'om the library and be able to build a nice structure on it for a city hall. That would allow additional retail on Main Street and perhaps have a complementary park across from the existing Civic Park. He suggested expanding the existing parking lot behind the police building. He envisioned a civic center complex crossing Old Bernal and using the existing 200 Old Bernal as some kind of community building. Police parking must be secured and no matter how one tries to hide it, there will still be a brick wall around it. He did not want the entrance to Pleasanton City Council 20 08/19/03 Minutes