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Planning Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />April; 10, 2014 <br />Page 34of 37 <br />enforcement or permit program, we can change behavior and push parking one place or <br />another. We hear both from an enforcement perspective. <br />We have some special events that are significant. Can we work with the vendors to <br />create a management place, not to prohibit them, but to work with them?What can we <br />do with our resources? Can the City come to the plate at Street Faire or the Parade of <br />Lights and recognize that some of these are pretty unique situations that we want to <br />have. We cannot build our way out of it. What is the best management plan for that? <br />There are different ways to do this and we can work through this. <br />From a community forum perspective, what we heard from the public and from a good <br />urban design practice is have a lot of pocket spaces, not large surface spaces. <br />Louisville is an old town and we don’t want large surface spaces. Promote parking <br />structures internal to the block with alley access, not on the street. For example, <br />looking at the Lucky Pie site and the way it is oriented, if we put a structure there, you <br />really cannot get joint development on it and actually gain parking spaces. You can put <br />parking for joint development but you will not gain parking spaces. There is not enough <br />room. Instead of taking the faceof the block, what ifyou tilted it 90 degrees and you <br />kept all four corners for private development fit within the character but internalize the <br />parking structure to the middle of the block. It is more compatible. Develop lined <br />parking structures versus single use parking structures as this is not a good practice. <br />We do not have good landscape standards and guideline for parking facilities in our <br />framework. We are silent on landscape. We need to change that from a community <br />forum perspective. <br />VITALITY: From a vitality perspective, consider land use mix and parking demand with <br />the business assistance program. Can we provide parking incentives for office or <br />business incentives for office users? Has the day passed us for restaurants? If we do <br />more restaurants, they are the highest parking users. They are coming in at the time of <br />day when we have the least capacity to accommodate it. Can we use our incentive <br />program to create a better parking balance to get more daytime users? In the end, that <br />helps our restaurants because they are not full during the day. You can have both ends <br />work well together. <br />Can we promote better use of the alleys? We heard from Commissioner Pritchard on <br />an item today that the alleys are a primary access. How do we get in and out of them? <br />Are they paved or wide enough? Do they have good directional signs? Are they safe at <br />the intersections? We have a lot of office spaces that are not being used when we <br />should be using them. <br />We discussed public outdoor dining to extend the reach of the pedestrian. We did that <br />well in the past and are continuing to do it. <br />LIVABILITY: From a livability perspective, develop the neighborhood permit program. <br />Using the Aspen program, it does not exclude the streets from our users but it actually <br />creates a revenue stream and a management tool. There are is number that we will <br />look at for the residents and the City to consider, but it is probably time to step up and <br />start managing our assets better to make sure Downtown stays vibrant. Wedo not <br />want to create animosity between thetwo. What I heard from the public is that they love <br /> <br />