City Council Agenda and Packet 2019 02 05

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City Council Meeting Minutes January 22, 2019 Page 4 of 16 Councilmember Maloney asked about the maintenance and operation costs and how it was calculated. Johnson stated it is from a cost per square foot basis of 50 cents per square foot. Public Comments Sid Vinall, 544 Leader Circle, stated he is concerned about under -utilizing of current parking during summer events. He noted parking on the east side of the railroad tracks always has parking and asked if the ball fields could be used better with an underpass or shuttles. He expressed concern about maintaining the attractiveness of town, the small town character, and the size of this building. He added the concern about climate change and this garage encouraging the use of fossil fuels. Mark Cathcart, 1763 Sweet Clover Lane, stated he does not support the garage. The city should be enabling non -car focused travel projects before doing the garage. This is a fossil fuel infrastructure and brings congestion. He felt there should be work to be a city that is not car dependent. Walking and cycling is not encouraged or easy. More and more residents don't have cars. Marilee O'Conner, 104 Barbara Street, a public health epidemiologist, noted many might agree on the goals of the urban renewal plan, but disagree with how to get there. She felt there needs to be a community health needs assessment. Parking garages are associated with many negative health impacts. There are other way to bring people downtown. Parking garages are on their way out as transportation changes. She asked if Council goes forward they consider a parking garage with a conversion option included. She asked Council to not consider design requests for proposals that were not open and the community did not have the opportunity to comment on. She asked Council to consider other options for this space. Councilmember Loo stated the request for proposal (RFP) was done in public and none of this has been done behind closed doors. She wanted to correct the perception the city does things in secret; the public record will show there was a public process. Tom Rafferty, 945 Rex Street, stated he wants this proposal to go away and thanked Council for the parking improvements that have been made. Parking during Street Faire is better with the smaller faires. This garage is too much concrete. He asked why there was no Planning Commission or other meetings before this came to Council and have all of the parking improvements of the parking framework plan been implemented. Downtown is too party -like and needs to attract locals walking; need more family themes to counter balance all the restaurants and bars. He wanted to maintain the small town character. Last Saturday night he noted multiple available parking places in town. Zoey Davol, 1020 Rex, owner of Pica's with her husband, stated she is not against re- development and revitalization, but not for this garage. It is not in the scale, not what business owners are looking for, parking is under-utilized most of the time. She felt this is