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Welcome to offer perspectives on by better
parking What do you do with that car and

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I just found out bicycle when you're
traveling around the city in Norfolk and met

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Simmons city planner one
where they're planning

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a commute to an office are you doing I'm
doing did it with I mean Bob you know I

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means I know there's only one of them OK
Susan Pollock senior planner OK So what do

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you do I want to ask you what do you do
with your bike I block it to anything that

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I can find that is stable and isn't going
away. You know is that what we want to

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see happen you know and that's why we're
evolving the whole policy right car now I

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didn't think you know we are going to get
ready for the show I didn't think bicycle

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when it comes to parking but that really
shows how we've matured as an urban area

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right Mr Simmons. Simons. And with that
one thought OK look that one. Well you

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know we're trying to think of it in terms
of what are all your transportation

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options you know we have light
rail now bicycling is certainly

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a part of the culture so how do we company
the right and now the city planners go

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back

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a few years let's go back maybe two hundred
years when the city was first being formed

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as an urban center that was traditionally
right there the waterfront right so is

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that what we call in the character district
as the district downtown Yes we're

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trying to put together city wide
character districts which deck to be

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a foreign concept to

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a lot of people OK but it does follow the
history of development in the city so

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downtown of course is your older portion
of the city as you are been right more

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urban more dense more historic as we get
further out what we call that traditional

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Think of your street car suburbs and we
like to say everything inside the river the

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Lafayette river but then further out and
then as you get into the period of history

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where you have any exceptions and for
suburban development pretty post-war post-war

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to development everything is just much
bigger Orge are lots bigger yards

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everything's further apart you're not
walking around to the same extent that you

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would downtown so it's definitely
not something that we can need do

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a one size fits all standard for anymore
doesn't work that way and yet prior to the

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changes in the code that's kind of what we
had wouldn't Yes So how does that Susan

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how does it work if you if you're

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a new business coming to town the requirements
put on you or some like that sure

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and that's that's what zoning is all about
there are standards that are set forth

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and if you are with parking it depended
on the type of business you are no matter

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if you were in downtown or if you were up
in ocean view if you were retail it was

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the same parking requirement and we realized
some time ago that as Matt says one

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size doesn't fit all there should be
different parking requirements depending on

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where you're located in
the city OK let's go on

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a walking tour then of the city
main street in. The water from.

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What character does there is it
downtown makes sense yeah. There's

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parking on the street
but there's got to be

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a lot more parking so that's in the
garage so if I were to open up

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a deli downtown one of the parking requirements
zero zero but that's the way it is

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today OK yeah the big gap is when you sort
of cross the street depending on where

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you are downtown all the sudden it changes
to today again that one size fits all

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standard and then you get to provide all
the parking as if you were out in the

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summer dacha So OK that's what we're
trying to fix OK I'm on Granby street and

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Olney chemistry only one of the Arts
District Yeah and I want to open

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a deli Yeah that's And we have to get into
the nuances of counting your seats and

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looking at your square footage and sometimes
depending on what you want today we

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would have to say you can't get that so
we're seeing where that road is sort of

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starting to keep businesses vacant
and that's not to get I want to open

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a deli on Cali Avenue and.
And I don't presume. Will I

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was my record now you're in
traditional OK so not the same as

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a suburban but not nearly as drastically
reduces downtown so it's about

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a seventy five percent reduction of what
you would have to provide if you were in

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suburban So these kinds of things are
equations that are into the business plan

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that the planning plan of the
city OK I'm going to open up

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a deli on the beach in ocean view. The
same parking requirement as you would have

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today OK So there's

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a can we change the suits I keep it going
you know but it's because that's how you

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love your the big chair so you see kind of
that evolution when it comes to the role

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of bugs too yeah absolutely
for walking your bike up on

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a light pole for true Yeah and you know
it started some time ago where we started

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to seem more and more people commuting into
downtown or coming to events that have

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gotten bigger and better in town Point
Park the weekends are more busy in the

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downtown area and the better way to get
there is per PAP's you know by light rail

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We've got light rail now and you can
take your bike on light rail but

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a great way to get into downtown is
by bike and you know we started doing

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a lot of bike racks on the city did and
then businesses started to get interested

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so when we came up with the new. Parking
requirements Matt was the one that said

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this is the perfect time let's start to
require bike parking and we have different

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types of park bike parking we've got long
term we've got short term again that also

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plays off the character districts so if so
we want to find out more about this they

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can go on loan to the planning plenty website
and you can look at we just recently

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went to planning commission but if you
look at last month's Planning Commission

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agenda you'll see the whole parking staff
report text them if you're nerdy enough

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want to read through the code but certainly
it's all up there yeah I'm glad you

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said that but the other senses that we're
devolving urban center in there for with

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changing needs in the play and is responsive
to definitely and within you know

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within the regulations it's not just
cutting the numbers there is there's many

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things that we do to accommodate
the urban areas we. Based on

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your how close you are to light rail there
is some other benefits there if you want

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to share parking with other businesses we
allow for that as well. There is valet

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parking and something that we haven't
recognized before we're all knowledge ing

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compact. Spaces which we
hadn't done before so there's

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a whole host of things that we're doing
to accommodate the more urban areas well

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keep us posted and go to the
to the website and take

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a peek Yes you want it if you want to next
to the city council so like Google you

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know you work hard I mean it is forward to
make it responsive so that yeah Matt is

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I think it's working this is for multiple
year so we're finally glad to see it come

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to fruition thank you for your multiple
years can you believe MacArthur memorials

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were there for fifty years so today
we're going to talk more about that.