Item A: Workshop-City Hall Complex

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Sites Considered The SIG developed a list of 22 sites to study clustered around two focus areas with proximity to existing police interactions: downtown sites near the existing and future City Hall and out-of- downtown sites near the Property Control Unit and fueling area. A map was created to examine the sites for relevant zoning requirements and compliance with City planning (i.e. Downtown Plan), their relationship to transit options, surrounding access and egress constraints (i.e. one- way streets and railway), lot size (the minimum lot size to accommodate the space needs is approximately half a city block), and to study the sites in relationship to patrol officers’ daily travel patterns. Please note that although there has been a Council decision in November 2006 to separate the Patrol Facility from the City Hall, the possibility of building the Patrol Facility on the same site as the city hall is being explored. At the time of the Council decision, the preferred City Hall site was the Rock N’ Rodeo/County Butterfly Lot and it posed prohibitive challenges to include the Patrol Facility. Since then, some of the factors have changed, particularly that the preferred site for a new City Hall is now the full block existing City Hall site. For this reason, the City Hall site was included as one of the 22 possible sites (see Attachment C, map of Potential Police Patrol Sites). The SIG combined the sites and the criteria into a matrix to use for comparative evaluation. After assessing the 22 sites in consideration, 8 sites were selected to evaluate because they represented the most likely and varied possibilities. The remaining sites were not chosen to evaluate for a variety of reasons (see Summary of sites not evaluated, below). The evaluation discussion resulted in a positive (green), neutral (yellow), or negative (red) rating using each criterion. We learned some general lessons about pros and cons and specific issues pertaining to individual sites from the exercise. Both areas (downtown and out-of- downtown) provided benefits for proximity to existing police activities and interactions, and were considered equal in their ability to promote community policing strategies (see Attachment D, Site Suitability Matrix). In general, downtown sites showed: Good access to transit service and alternate modes of transportation ? Constraints due to small site size (all downtown sites require structured parking, likely ? underground due to planning restrictions) Incompatibility with city planning goals (locating a building downtown that doesn’t pro- ? duce vitality and public interactions, and houses few full-time employees) Challenges meeting adopted land use plans (downtown sites require a minimum floor-to- ? site area ratio that will be challenging to meet; structured parking will likely need to be underground due to a city planning requirement that 50% of ground floor parking struc- tures fronting the street house retail or office functions) In general, out-of-downtown sites showed: Poor access to transit service and alternate modes of transportation ? More flexibility for potential expansion or reorganized plan due to larger site sizes ? Greater potential for less expensive surface parking and accommodation of personally- ? owned vehicles Good surveillance of perimeter and protection of facilities due to site sizes ? Less expensive land and construction costs ? Page 5 of 7