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Notes for Downtown Plan and Urban Design Guidelines Negative Declaration (Appendix <br />E, Part 2) <br />Page 4 <br />Part II <br />13(b,d). This Plan evaluated the parking situation in the downtown. It found that while <br />in general there is not a parking problem, there are two issues which could make <br />parking easier for shoppers: reconfiguring the existing parking in the Safeway <br />Plaza and providing parking for employees. To address these issues, the Plan <br />recommends that the parking layout of the Safeway Plaza be re-configured so <br />that parking is not placed up against the buildings. This current configuration <br />interferes with through traffic and creates bottlenecks in the parking lot. It also <br />recommends that diagonal parking be provided on Hays Street to accommodate <br />employees. This would free up the parking in front of the stores for shoppers. <br />These recommendations are suggestions only and further study would be <br />necessary before they would be enacted. <br />13(c). The Downtown Plan committee considered studies that were done for areas <br />adjacent to the Downtown in an attempt to avoid any duplication of efforts. <br />One of the studies considered was the East 14th Street traffic study (1998 -99), <br />which analyzed the possibility of reducing the number of travel lanes along this <br />main street. East 14th Street bisects the downtown and is considered to be a <br />barrier to pedestrian movement and narrow the window of opportunity for <br />business recognition for drivers. This recommendation would require additional <br />review and approval, particularly by Caltrans, as East 14th is designated as a <br />State Highway. <br />.~ <br />