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King Avenue Parking Lot Task Force Minutes March 3, 2005 Page 3 during the process. He mentioned Mr. McCoy's suggestion from the previous meeting about using the Jungle Theather/Nadeau parcel for construction worker parking. Mr. Maurer responded that the issue had already been addressed at a Ciry Council meeting several months ago and that workers would be required to park at the project staging area north of Highway 10. Mr. Maurer reminded the group that the King Avenue lot was to be done and ready for use before anything happens at the MetroPlains site and that the disruption time would be about a month in duration given his current schedule. Mr. McCoy asked Mr. Maurer whether there would be a "walkway" for parking lot users to allow access to other businesses along Main Street? Mr. Maurer said that the plans did not call for such. Mr. Sunderman asked if rock was going to be put down in the parking lot to discourage skateboarders on the newly-paved lot? Mr. Maurer responded that he had not considered rock seal coat material because he felt the business owners would not like the mess tracked into their stores, but that he could specify it and have it on the site for a few days until the surface had hardened. He asked the group for their thoughts and they decided they would prefer to have a rock seal coat material used in the lot to discourage skateboarding on the site. 2. Employee Parking Area Designation At this point in the meeting Mr. Maurer had to leave the group to attend another meeting. He left behind copies of the King Avenue lot configuration for planning for employee parking area designation. Ms. Raduenz asked the group to review the plan and began a discussion of where the most appropriate location may be for employee parking at the site. She reminded the group that potential signage designating this area would be installed after the decision was made, approved by the HRA, and the lot completed, and that it would be of importance to note both the area of the lot as well as the number of spaces that would comfortably accomodate employee demand during peak hours of business activity. Ms. Raduenz asked members of the group if they knew when the peak time for employee parking would occur. Mr. Holme responded that he thought it would be mainly during "daytime hours". Dr Jarmoluk and several others in the group with employees and/or tenants agreed. Ms. Raduenz asked if it was fair to consider the peak time for both customer and employee parking demand to be between the hours of 10 am and 2 pm Monday-Friday. There was some discussion about evening and weekend traffic, but for the most part Task Force members agreed that these would be the general hours where the highest demand for parking would occur throughout the year, as some businesses closed by 5 or 6 pm, with the exception of the Kemper Drug Store and bars/restaurants. Ms. Raduenz asked if anyone knew how many spaces would cover the number of employees that would need to park at the area. Mr. Holme said that no one knew how many employees and customers would be coming to the area after redevelopment occured, so that question "could not be answered". Ms. Raduenz reminded Mr. Holme that there were separate parking facilities and plans for employees for the new redevelopment and the focus of this meeting was to look at the parking demand for employees and customers of current businesses near the King Avenue parking area. Mr. Holme and Dr. Jarmoluk estimated that there might be 35-40 spots needed for employees. No other Task Fooce member disagreed with this number. Ms. Raduenz asked the group where they felt within the new lot configuration would be the most appropriate spot to park employees of their businesses? Mr. Holme and Mr. Sunderman suggested the southwest corner of the lot across the street from First National Bank. No one disagreed with this assessment. Ms. Raduenz asked the