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used in the future for a walkway or parking. She would like to work very closely with the City on this. City Manager Little confirmed that as soon as there are even rough details, the City will staff this and get back to them. Councilman Winchester advised that 13 people have been made members of the Advisory Board to the Community Redevelopment Agency. Those people will act as the planning and zoning agency for the Community Redevelopment Agency and additionally will act as a sounding board on things such as just brought up re closing streets, etc. He stressed that they are not in any way supplanting the traditional Planning and Zoning function, which is chaired by Jay Smith, but if the regulations that are drafted get approved, they will offer someone like the county, for example, who wants to come in and build a large complex, the option of going through the traditional planning and zoning process, or they will be able to go to the Community Redevelopment planning and zoning agency. The reasons they are doing it that way is to provide some opportunities for creativity and imagination and accept the fact that doing business the same old way as it has been done for many years hasn't gotten us out of the bind we are in, and if we are going to really succeed down there, we need to look at things in a different way than we have in the past. Commissioner Bird inquired what the City is doing towards revitalization of the downtown area. He believed one of the major things we will need will be traffic flow, and also parking and other support facilities, restaurants, etc. He asked what the City sees as their goal in this. Planning Director Young, speaking as Director of the Community Redevelopment Agency, stated that the primary goal is a circulation plan which will bring together both our engineering staffs to determine what streets are necessary to accomplish this. This plan must be based on future needs. He asked if the NOV 17 1988 1 0 izOOK 75 PAGE 202 L_