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Mr. Swift noted that the Specific Plan calls for establishing additional public parking lots in the downtown area, which is a start towards the implementation programs. There are two general ways they are most likely to be created: one being if the City creates public parking lots through its Capital Improvement Program by acquiring property and building the parking lot at the City's own cost expense, and the second being through a parking assessment district in which the property owners within a particular area block or two blocks would either give land or pay money to have a public parking lot created just as it was for the one block between St. Mary's and Division Street. This could be done at 100 percent at the property owners cost or the City could contribute a portion. He mentioned that it could be built as a deck parking structure or surface parking structure but that none of these details are set forth in the ordinance. Ms. Hosterman believed this was a good direction to go in and asked if there would be an opportunity within the downtown to create more public parking. Mr. Swit~ indicated that the PDA could speak to this issue and noted that this is the direction the Parking Task Force is moving, which is why these guidelines were established in the ordinance. He pointed out that a number of discussion have been going on with respect to combining parking lots that are already there and making them open to the public. In this case, it would still be private property but the parking lot would be open to the public rather than being owned by the City and operated as a public parking lot. If one would look at the Downtown Specific Plan, he pointed out that circumstances are almost different in every block of the downtown. The intention is to create more public parking lots rather than private parking lots or to combine private parking lots to make them more efficient if they are shared amongst the private properties owners. Ms. Ayala wondered how the work on the Transportation Corridor is coming along and asked for the time frame for this project. Ms. McKeehan noted that there are a number of different items that the County is working on with the City. They have linked the acquisition of the Corridor and we have not gotten to the final, negotiated details yet. The County wants to see what is going to occur with the Staples Ranch project, which is another asset they have in Pleasanton. Staffis continuing to meet with the County every other month to talk about progress on all of these projects and where we are and what is occurring. She noted that it is a very cooperative discussion and negotiation. She mentioned that both staff and the County have had an appraisal done for the value of the Corridor, but a decision has not been reached as to how we would actually acquire it. She believed that an actual proposal from staff to acquire the Corridor would not be until some time next year. Meanwhile, there have been no proposals from the County to sell the Corridor to private parties and the County has agreed to place a hold on it until the other projects move along. She was confident that this would come to closure and would be something that is acceptable to all; however, she noted that the final negotiations would be tricky. Pamela Stoddard, 830 Main Street, Executive Director of the PDA, mentioned that a number of people in the downtown area have worked for about a year and a half in Pleasanton City Council 20 10/07/03 Minutes