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To:, Mike Faught, Ashland Public Works Director
From: Kim Parducci, Southem Oregon Transportation Engineering, LLC
CC: Scott Fleury
Date: 6/18/2013
Re: Plaza Parking
Comments: Southern Oregon Transportation Engineering reviewed the Transportation
Commission's recommendation to paint the curb yellow in the plaza loop directly
across from angled parking rather than include a loading zone or timed parking, and
concur with their decision. This section of the plaza was a "no-parking" zone prior
to the Plaza Beautification project and is the.best option from a safety aspect because
it reduces vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian/cyclist conflicts in an area
where there's already a lot to pay attention to.
In the past this section within the plaza has been used as a temporary loading zone
for delivery trucks and other plaza events, and this is expected to continue after the
curb is painted yellow. Deliveries are necessary for business and community events,
and restricting parking will preserve it for such uses.
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It has been a long grueling budget season and tonight it ends,
probably with a decision that I will disagree with. POW--,
Ordinarily, my philosophy is to respect the vote and move on. This
case is different.
A radical change in Parks funding is being proposed without answers
to the question of why the change is necessary. A change Martha
Bennett, Brian Almquist and Cathy Shaw, among a long list of
mayors, City Councilors and City Administrators did not find
necessary to make. The question of how the Parks Commission
maintains its Charter prescribed independence without control of its
budget likewise remains unanswered. And finally, no grand plan of
where the City and Parks are going with these changes has been laid
out.
Hopefully, the ad Hoc Committee on Parks funding will provide some
of the answers. Avoiding these questions potentially harms our
credibility as public officials. Thus I look forward to all the cards being
laid on the table, providing a transparent pubic forum for.
understanding the necessity for these changes and how our Parks
will be protected given these changes.