Development Team Meeting Notes (96-99)

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~ Courthouse Square Design Team Meeting March 13, 1997 Present: Randy Curtis, Dan Berrey, Leonard Lodder, Dave Hayes, Curt Pence, RG Anderson-Wyckoff Agenda: Project Updates Update from Contractor Review of Exclusions in P/K Estimate Update on Construction Time Line Architect Update Leasing Update Property Acquisition Relocation Financing Environmental Update ITEM 1: Update from Contractor Parking Structure: Dan opened the meeting by updating the team on the design of the parking structure. One option is to go with 420 stalls. Increasing the count to 443 is being considered. ~ Randy pointed out that we need to continue to look at the quality of the structure. The unique aspect of this structure is that the entrance and exit to parking will be coordinated with the traffic control signals for the busses. We are looking at a lot more employees and outside customers. By phasing them out through multiple signals, tr~c can become very backed up. Len doesn't feel this is going to have a big impact. The visitor parking will be in and out. The garage will not be full at all times. Randy's concern is that there is a point of over-building the site. Routing the traffic onto Chemeketa was discussed. Randy suggested working with the city to modify the signals. Another consideration will be the air quality when the ramp is backed up. We could have some air pollution problems in the parking structure. At this time, we don't have any statistics on the m~imum flow the ramp can handle. Dan asked if this is an issue we should bring a consultant in to look at. The five o'clock rush seems to be the big impact. One possibility is to not allow any traffic to enter the structure during this time. Which would allow traffic to exit through the entrance lanes. Randy suggested that having two lanes exit; one turning right on to Church and the other left on to Court. Len suggested the possibility of turning onto the curb lane, ACTION: Len will find out if this is acceptable to the city before he looks further at this design. He will meet with Lou and Peter to discuss this idea. Chevron Site: The county is being asked to pick up 1/3 of the clean up cost on the Chevron site. This was negotiated by Legal Counsel five years ago. Kathleen received a copy of the ~ agreement about a week ago. Dan is having the environmental consultants go through some cost analysis on both a single level and a two level parking structure. He is optimistic. The only issue