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DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT Mayor Macht referred to the Advisory group assembled to help deal with the downtown redevelopment and informed those present that by consensus at a recent Council meeting, and in view of the Board's needs to build a central governmental complex, the City Council has agreed to formalize in the area of the downtown designated as the redevelopment area a maximum building height of 72', plus 15' for appurtenances. Commissioner Eggert expressed concern that this height might also be allowed in shopping centers, but City Planning Director Walter Young confirmed that this increased height would be allowed only in the downtown redevelopment area, which actually is the only C -2A designation in the City. He described the limits of the C -2A District for the benefit of those present. Mayor Macht directed the Planning Director to send maps of the redevelopment area to the county and advised that he wanted the county to be aware of the height limitation as obviously it would affect the plan and design of their proposed governmental complex. Commissioner Wheeler reported that the Commission accepted the space needs study for the Courthouse, and we are going to be requesting proposals for architects and trying to coordinate with the Finance Committee and their recommendation of a 14 sales tax. Chairman Scurlock explained that we have asked each Commis- sioner on their committees to come up with a dollar figure over a period of time for their particular area of expertise - i.e., Commissioner Eggert with the Health Building, Commissioner Wheeler with the court facilities, the next phase of the Jail, etc. - so we can put a package together. With the court facility plan, we came up with about 12 million; Phase III of the Jail around 5 million; the Health Building 31-4 million. One big problem is that we are considerably short with the impact fees that are needed to acquire the necessary R/W to build our infrastructure. 8 NOV 1 7 1988 800K ib ME 200