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the north side transit mall wall and the county/transit building north side wall. A second packet of information on space planning was distributed. Over the past week, Arbuckle Costic has been working with county on the overall outline of space planning. Transit's space planning as presented comes from very early discussions and will have some major revisions in the coming weeks. The hearing room will be positioned on the first floor off the main lobby. An area on the southeast corner of the first floor has been designated as mail/copy/service center with direct access off Church Street. The parking level as designed covers the base of the building and out to the northern transit mall wall and will accommodate 258 parking spaces with a potential of adding an additional 60-66 spaces for future north block development. There is an issue to be resolved regarding exit stairways from the parking level to street level. The average size of a parking space will be 9' x 17 - 18.5 feet and will be marked compact per Salem code requirement by definition only. By Portland standards, these are fairly large spaces. Grid layout also dictated width of the space. There has been some type of storage area identified in the parking level. The architect will look to both county and transit for instruction on how this space will be utilized. There currently is about 1,000 sf, and a possibility of looking at some other areas later in the planning phase. The north end development currently being shown on the drawings will be removed. Separating the urban renewal dollar portion for the north end and making it the responsibility of a future developer to apply for these funds was discussed. Leonard felt it would be better to keep this in the total project and attach a dollar value and then put back into the RFP as an allowance. This would allow for consistency around the block in terms of urban renewal and easier to deal with. The streetscape design carries the same theme as the rest of the downtown core area. This will also be used throughout the transit bus mall. ADA requirements dictate a different texture strip to be used and carrying out the streetscape theme within the bus mall area satisfies this requirement. Covered weather protection is also planned for the entire perimeter of the site and portions can be allocated to streetscape. The hearing room on the first floor will be a flat floor and is being designed to hold up to 200 people. Since this will be a multi-purpose room, a fixed seating arrangement defeats that purpose. The development stage will fine tune how the space will work. Transit's plan is to try and provide furnishings for the hearing room. In the current design plan, a column would appear in the middle of the hearing room. When Pence/Kelly bid this earlier, it was done on the basis of removing this column and transferring the load, which is a more expensive option. Arbuckle will work this issue to see if there are alternatives in re-designing the space for first floor hearing room or keeping the current orientation. Space plans for each floor were reviewed. The second floor will house transit offices, 3 areas of expansion space (2,400 sf allocated to transit), Marion County Solid Waste, Behavioral Care Network (BCN), and Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N). The third floor will house District Attorney's offices, victim assistance, support enforcement and 7,071 s.f. of expansion space. The