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e e e teered to represent the council on this committee. Mayor Miller suggested that the council ask LTO if it would include a councilor on its site selec- tion committee, and appoint Ms. Ehrman if the board agreed. Mr. Boles said staff should draft a letter to the MPC about long-term inter- jurisdictional needs. Mr. Hibschman presented a chart on RTF Recommendations. Mr. Robinette asked for a definition of the RTF study area. Mr. Hibschman said it focused on properties abutting the downtown mall and adjacent areas, but that its prin- ciples would be general enough to apply to a broader area. Jan Childs, POD, said the RTF study area had also included Willamette Street to 11th Avenue. Mr. Nicholson asked the size of the shortfall for the City's Free Parking Program. Lew Bowers, POD, said the deficit this year would be $165,000. He said the deficit next year would be $365,000 due to the effects of Ballot Measure 5. Mr. Nicholson said studies of retail shopping areas list access to public restrooms and free parking as the public's most requested amenities. Mr. Boles said studies do not show free parking as a top priority for shoppers. Ms. Ehrman said the council's original charge to the ODD Task Force was "pay as you gO." Mr. Gleason added that the concept of free parking conveyed the wrong approach to investment in the core area. He said investors could not get a return on an investment in parking. Mr. Nicholson said the City should collect a fee on its peripheral parking lots so that free parking was not offered anywhere in the city. He said these funds could be used for infrastructure to support the downtown core area. Mr. Boles said the RTF recommendations would address the issue of parking. He suggested that an impervious surfaces study might also be helpful. Mr. Nicholson said the City needed to recover all hidden costs, including those spent on peripheral areas. Ms. Childs reviewed the history of Part 4 of the RTF recommendations. She said Part 4 recommendations had included the least detail of any in the study. She said the Planning Commission had hoped to have a chance to review Part 4 prior to releasing the draft Commercial Lands Study (CLS). She said the staff and the Planning Commission had attempted to identify ongoing work projects which addressed aspects of Part 4 recommendations. She said the commission felt that the majority of the recommendations would best be addressed by the CLS. She also reported that the Citizen Involvement Committee (CIC) had approved a plan to set up a CLS task force to consider certain issues pertaining to the CLS during the summer months. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 10, 1991 Page 4