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King Avenue Parking Lot Task Force Minutes January 4, 2005 Page 2 employees would be parking underground. Mr. Holme asked about the parking standards that were used to provide adequate parking for employees of the two projects. Ms. Steinmetz replied that the parking standards within the downtown are different than those in other areas of the City. She stated that each residential unit requires 1.5 stalls. Conversation ensued among group members about where residents were planning on parking (Steinmetz and Raduenz confirmed this would be in the underground parking area of each facility) and where the access points for traffic coming from underground parking locations would occur along Main Street. Terry Maurer indicated that this would occur from Main Street. 3. King Avenue Parking Lot Concept Discussion Ms. Raduenz introduced Terry Maurer and asked him to go over the general parking lot concept for the group. Maurer displayed a scale map of the King Avenue parking lot area, which members of the group could also see by looking out of the windows of the room. Mr. Maurer stated that access to King Avenue at Highway 10 would be closed, as well as access to the school district lot from King Avenue. By closing this access there would a net gain of 8-10 spaces within the lot, for a total gain of about 50 more spots overall in the entire space. Mr. Maurer said that he and others had spent a great deal of time trying to squeeze in parking spaces in various configurations to ensure that the most parking be made available at the site. Mr. Maurer said that the City has contacted MnDOT about the closing of King Avenue at Highway 10 and MnDOT had no objections. He indicated that MnDOT's access management specialists had already targeted the intersection as one that would ultimately be closed at some point in the next several years anyway, based on anticipated changes to the Highway 10 corridor to be made by the agency. He listed a number of issues related to the project that need to be resolved in the next several months, including: - School District easement resolution - Combining of small First National Bank lot and current King Ave. lot into one larger one - Utility box relocation within new parking lot - Moving First National Bank employees from small First National lot during reconstruction - Schedule for removing down the Municipal Utility Building - Tentative reconstruction schedule dates, May to end of July, depending upon various factors including weather - Budget for lighting and other lot amenities - Lot entrance - Employee/Visitor parking area designations - Lot and directional sign locations The group reviewed the site plan for the King Avenue parking lot and asked Mr. Maurer if school district property could be better utilized by moving King Avenue over. Mr. Maurer responded that the City would need an easement and the City may be able to add up to eight parking stalls on a head-in basis along the building if this were the case. He said that no specific conversations had been held yet with the district. Mr. Holme suggested that a stop sign would need to be installed at the corner of King and Main in order to maintain traffic flow from the lot. He asked whether traffic counts at this location had been done. Mr. Maurer could not recall if he had current counts at this location at this time. Mr. Maurer also asked about the schedules of commercial truck deliveries for businesses like the bakery and Kemper Drug. The schedule of garbage haulers for this specific block of businesses was also mentioned. The group asked where disabled parking was to occur during reconstruction. Members of the group discussed the need for other traffic control