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some other application and get a better result. Pat Hornbostel: I think that is something that, when you have a program this scale, is going to occur. There are going to be some expenditures that aren't optimal. On the other hand, when someone who has never been in a building like this, comes into this building .... there is a certain amount of frustration in not knowing how the thing works. Look at the north entrance of the Library. That building is new. We just made it into a library and it's not even Code. If you have a standard that applies to any building that you go into, it simplifies life for the people involved. In this case, a blind person. People with disabilities don't just have the problems that you see. There is a tremendous level of frustration that's involved in just getting in and out of an automobile. If you can cut that kind of thing, it really helps the person involved. This might have been an expenditure that was not optimal, but I think overall, the entire intent of the act is to make life more liveable for those of us with disabilities. You could lower this microphone, also. Markham: Pat commented that he left the handicap parking space for me. He assumed that I was bringing my son with me. Indeed, I would have needed that parking space, in that case. Since the law provides that I do not use those spaces, unless I am actually transporting my son and he is actually being loaded or unloaded, I did not park in the handicap parking. Peter Stewart, 1132 Jefferson Avenue, Louisville, CO, felt that it was a good document, but that there needed to be something in the document about what's going to be done to the parks, streets, City sidewalks, curb cuts, etc. He stated that the transition plan is 4