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Y~ <br />E1 <br />River <br />Downtown Parking Study <br />PARKING MANAGEMENT and CONCEPT DESIGNS <br />Sites for Additional Parking Facilities <br />The existing King Avenue Lot is well located for public parking spaces serving <br />Downtown Elk River. The lot is close enough to provide convenient parking <br />supporting the businesses along Main Street and Jackson Avenue. The site <br />dimensions and the topography of the site are adequate for a reasonably <br />efficient parking structure design. The site is the most centrally located viable site <br />within the downtown area and could serve future redevelopment efforts along <br />Main Street. <br />Approximately 50 parking spaces could be added to the King Avenue Lot if the <br />existing HRA buildings and the Elk River Meat Market were removed. However, <br />in the long term, removing those buildings for surface parking spaces is not the <br />ideal use for that portion of the site. An expansion of the Lot onto this site should <br />be viewed as an interim phase until further development occurs on the King <br />Avenue Lot. <br />The existing School District administration building has also been suggested as a <br />potential site for a parking structure. The site offers several advantages: <br />• Any spaces added at the site would be 100% net gain to the municipal <br />parking system as the use of the existing spaces is restricted. <br />• Lowell Avenue provides direct access to Highway 10. <br />However, the school district site is further from the core area of the downtown <br />and any municipal parking system spaces located here will not be as convenient <br />as the King Avenue Lot. However, in the future if the school district relocates the <br />administration office, the site could be "land banked" as a surface parking lot <br />providing employee parking. <br />For these reasons the analysis and development of conceptual structure designs <br />will focus on the King Avenue Lot. Four conceptual designs fora parking <br />structure were developed for the King Avenue Lot. Figures 2.0 through 5.1 depict <br />the conceptual designs. The concept designs were developed to demonstrate <br />different orientations of a parking structure on the site. <br />September 2007 <br />Carl Walker, Inc. <br />17 <br />