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City Council Meeting Minutes January 22, 2019 Page 8 of 16 Councilmember Loo stated to those who wrote and accused Council of being in developers pockets they need to know that is not the case and not in the Louisville character Councilmember Keany stated he read all the emails and saw what was posted on social media and noted many of the comments took him aback. To say Council is doing this for profit is offensive. Council constrained the LRC to the one specific location because we own it. Some day we may need a garage or parking facility He agreed working together with the LRC is a goal There are options and the intent of this study was to show what massing and scale would look like. This was not a specific design conversation Councilmember Keany stated he heard many comments that one can drive around and find plenty of parking. He noted many of the employees in downtown cannot afford to live here and have no transit options for them Adding more office space or multi use buildings bring more employees and they will need a place to park. If we want downtown to have viable businesses we need to have a place for them to park. This is looking down the road and what we want to see in the future. There is more to talk about for sure. Mayor Muckle stated what we learned is you can't build a garage in that location people will be happy with There are other options that we can spend this money on Personally he was willing to put this idea aside, but noted Council can't bind future councils to that. Councilmember Stolzmann made a motion to give staff direction not to expend any more resources on this and to communicate to the citizens we are not intending to build a parking structure at this location Councilmember Keany seconded Councilmember Loo asked if this was just binding this particular Council Councilmember Stolzmann stated yes, this would only be the intent of this Council Councilmember Loo stated her concern would be if commuter rail comes we may be foreclosing options. Mayor Muckle stated none of the current Council will be here when and if a train comes, future Councils can change their minds depending on the circumstances. Councilmember Keany asked if this is just for the specific location Councilmember Stolzmann said yes. Councilmember Keany stated this motion would not preclude the City and/or LRC from doing something else if rail comes to town Councilmember Stolzmann stated when and if rail comes there are many more conversations to be had Voice vote all in favor DISCUSSION/DIRECTION — TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN UPDATE Mayor Muckle introduced the item