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Council to identify certain accomplishments and areas of continuing concern on the Mall: 1. The installed awnings have served to provide some shelter from the elements to pedestrians and have therefore served to enhance pedes- trian use of the Ma11. z. The Pushcart program and the Kiosks insure the quality of mer- chandising and contribute to the aesthetics of the Mall. 3. Two different community surveys have confirmed that transients or large groups of people congregating or loitering on the Mall and accosting or insulting pedestrians or other Mall users while seeking recognition ar favors by harassment, coercion or confrontation have a chilling effect on the economic vitality of the Mall because pedestrians so accosted or insulted seek other places to transact their business free of such behavior. 4. Assigning areas of the Mall for pedestrian ways and for commer- ci al pursuits al 1 ows free flow of pedestrians and reasonable unfettered access to each commercial activity. 5. The physical construction of the Ma11 limits the places where emergency vehicles should travel in the Mall if damage to the Mall is to be minimized. ~. Past regulation of the Mall has not fully achieved the purposes of the Mall. while the existing system of regulation has created a firm founda- tion and accomplished much that is necessary to meet the goals established for the Mall, there have continued to be complaints from pedestrians that they are accosted on the Mall and frustrated in their attempts to enjoy the Mall, there have been complaints from merchants i n property abutting the Mall that occasional congregations of people on the Mall which have not served the pur- Ordinance - 3