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Q18: What improvements could be made to the area outside Q19: What improvements could be made to the Rosa Parks <br />Plaza at the LTD Downtown Station to make it a more com- <br />the Eugene Public Library to make it a more comfortable and <br />attractive place? (1,049 responses)fortable and attractive place? <br />(872 responses) <br />Public art55% 573 <br />Public art55% 573 <br />More greenery and landscaping48%501 <br />More greenery and landscaping48%501 <br />Outdoor reading room46%479 <br />Outdoor reading room46% 479 <br />Community information board44%461 <br />Community information board 44% 461 <br />More trash bins33%346 <br />More trash bins33% 346 <br />Movable chairs and tables32%332 <br />Movable chairs and tables32% 332 <br />Food and beverages kiosk31%330 <br />Food and beverages kiosk31% 330 <br />Games, such as board games 31%325 <br />and chessGames, such as board games and 31% 325 <br />chess <br />Comments: <br />Of the 538 comments regarding improvements to the Library Comments: <br />Plaza, 75% were about homeless, travelers, and vagrants and Of the 517 comments regarding improvements to the Library <br />their negative behaviors both inside and outside the library. Plaza, 76% were about homeless, travelers and vagrants and <br />Several people mentioned making the area more family and their negative behaviors. Around 13% of the responses men- <br />kid-friendly, with an outdoor reading room, board games, and tioned smoking as a serious issue and 5% said the area could <br />play sculptures outside. Some mentioned opening the café to <br />the outside with tables and chairs on the sidewalk.Kitchen food cart. Some love it and others would like to see it <br />go away. <br />“Maybe sort of a merging of the indoor cafe and the outdoor <br />space? Buskers (musicians, jugglers, artists working, etc.)”“ <br />people need to move through. People who stand in crowds there <br />“I hope this discussion will include the City recognizing that are a problem because they get in the way of other people mov- <br />the downtown library IS already Eugene’s homeless shelter and <br />-and is visually odd.” <br />natives, so that the Library can be a library? Come by on a cold, <br />rainy day; aside from the children’s area, 90% of the chairs have “Enforce against loitering so it feels safer to take the city bus... <br />homeless men in them, some drunk, some sleeping, etc., from especially during layover times. My teenage children like to <br />opening to closing, with arguments, garbage, eating, pets, etc”use the bus as their main mode of transportation but have said <br />84 <br /> <br />