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e Bookmobile in providing library services; 3) additional information about the relationship between services at the Eugene public library and those at the University of Oregon, Lane Community College, and Northwest Christian College libraries; 4) inclusion of information concerning the function and role of branch libraries and the relationship to a strong central library (found in an appendix to the report); and 5) recommendations concerning the site, including a) to attempt to separate parking from the library site, and b) to strengthen the committee's recommendations about the need to give serious consideration to the possible vacation of Broadway between Lincoln and Charnel ton streets. Mr. Saul introduced the next three speakers. Jim Robertson, Robertson/Sherwood Architects, reported that Site 3, at Broadway and Charnel ton, had received the highest score on the matrix that had been used, at 76.5 out of 100 possible points. He said that was 15 percent higher than the score received by the existing library site, and he reviewed nine reasons for the Site 3 score: e 1) sufficient size for library and parking; 2) location near the downtown commercial and civic center; 3) close to downtown employment centers; 4) good access by car, bus, bikes, and foot, with Charnel ton and Lincoln streets constructed for higher than current use; 5) good potential to enhance adjacent downtown uses; 6) more pooling of trips to commercial activity and increased visits to the library; 7) public ownership of site; 8) minimal impact on existing traffic and parking patterns; 9) a multi-story facility would fit with the existing scale of downtown. Julie Aspinwall-Lamberts, 1286 Piper Lane, of the Library Committee, said she expected parking to be a difficult issue. She said she wanted the council and the public to know that the issue had been difficult for the committee to deal with, but parking would need to be addressed. She said the committee had considered whether to recommend a multi-level parking facility or surface parking, and for the size and spaces needed to serve the library, surface parking would require at least two square city blocks. Ms. Aspinwall-Lamberts said it was a City goal to intensify the density of land use in the downtown area, and surface parking therefore had not seemed a reasonable approach. She added that both the adopted Parking and Circulation Plan and the draft Urban Renewal Plan called for the siting at the Broadway and Charnel ton location of a multi-story parking structure of approximately the same size being recommended in the draft report. e Dick Waters, HPW Associates program consultants, said per capita use showed that the Eugene library was one of the busiest libraries on the West Coast and in the country. Mr. Waters said that in looking at the type of building needed for the future, consultants had looked at the type of future they thought would exist. That future, he said, would MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 25, 1988 Page 2