City Council Meeting

Paul NavteestaffThat's Main Street Marketplace and Courthouse Plaza, both of which had a peak utilization rate of around 2 to 2.5 spaces for 1,000 square feet. and for reference Main Street Marketplace has 3.7 spaces for 1,000 square feet. Courthouse Plaza has 8.4. And lastly looking at office, we that same Old Town Parking study this one gave us some more significant numbers. The peak utilization found for the offices generally around Old Town and we excluded those that were in the core of Old Town that were likely dependent on shared parking and public parking but for other types of facilities it adds out to about 1.54 spaces per 1,000 square feet and this is when we separated out vacant space so that's 1.54 spaces of occupied office space in the old town area so the reason we wanted to not just

Thomas PetersonI know the last time we got together, it sounded like for some of it, it may not be sensitive, but I think it's a fair point nonetheless that if we're taking a look at the updates for the small area plans, we would be a little bit careful about locking in zoning amendments prior to that process because it could have some impact on the way we approach things here. It is going to raise issues of height and density, location, design, ratios, mixtures, all those kinds of things that are very fundamental. And I would include in that batch, for instance, some of the conceptual design that I think has got to get back on the table about thinking about some areas in terms of activity centers. And you think of Courthouse Plaza, the Old Town area, where one might think of that as a prime location for an activity center because of its proximity to Old Town.