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as well as the cost to the county and the d~esign <br />is more efficient in use of space. <br />Staff Presentation: <br />Alan Costic, principal architect, said the key <br />ingredients of the project are that the building <br />will house both the transit district and Marion <br />C~unty, the transit mall, and private development <br />which is in keeping with the down~own core <br />masterplan of keeping it pedestrian oriented. <br />The City of Salem has asked ~the transit district <br />to move t~e buses off of High Street by <br />December 1999. A#ter examining and discussing <br />many options, the Senator Block was chosen as <br />the best site for the transit mall. <br />The plan would aflow buses to come ofif and exit <br />to High and Church Streets. The city traffic <br />engineer's have determined this is the best way <br />~ro move the buses through the downtown area. <br />Transit experts have designed the layout of the <br />buses so they will have a permanent spot and <br />they can move in and around each other <br />regardless of whether they are operating or not. <br />The transit want to provide an attractive, people <br />oriented, weather protected environment. <br />On the ground floor there will be weather <br />controlled waiting rooms, #icketing areas, support <br />areas for bus drivers and other stafif that operate <br />the facilities on a daiiy basis, lmmediately <br />adjacent to that space on the street face itself <br />are the service support retai! spaces such as a <br />PUBLIC HEARING, 12/4197, PAGE 2 <br />s2 <br />