Recommendation from Cty Center Dev. Corp (Prkg Lot Renovation)CITY CENTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
HOPICINS MINNESOTA
October 29, 1982
City Council
Hopkins, Minnesota
Dear Council Members:
The 1980 Downtown Development Plan calls for improvement to the parking lots
along Tenth Avenue north of Excelsior Avenue and south of First Street North.
The City Center Development Corporation whole heartedly supports this key
element of the Downtown Development Plan, and asks that the City Council
set in motion the process of preparing the detail designs needed to imple-
ment the plan.
Preparation of the detail design for the Tenth Avenue parking facilities
will require technical expertise in traffic engineering, parking lot design,
and landscaping to insure a quality parking area is created. The City
Center Development Corporation requests that a professional parking facility
design firm with the above expertise be hired to develop the detail design
plans. An independent expert will insure a non- biased solution to the parking
problems on the north side of downtown in addition to creating a technically
sound plan.
To guide the parking facility designer a committee should be formed by the
businesses using the Tenth Avenue parking area The C.C.D.C. will inform
the businesses in the area of the plan to create a detail parking lot de-
sign and that they should form a committee. The committee should be from
six to ten members in size and have the responsibility for responding to
the plans and ideas put forward by the parking lot designer. The committee
should include some representation of the Downtown's interests as a whole
as well as representatives of the businesses immediately involved. The
committee will recommend the final design of the parking area to the City
Council for final approval.
Sincerely,
Kevin Locke
Executive Director
Sheila Block
President
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