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bring the Clerk and support services all into one secured area - the 9 block downtown area - the land use in those blocks - the property owners and the actual building configurations - historical landmarks - natural patterns of drainage - traffic circulation - and parking. After analyzing all the pertinent factors, they finally arrived at the 3 alternatives presented at the January meeting, and at that time the Board directed them to proceed with the concept of one main 3 -story building housing all facilities, located in the middle block area, keeping the facade of the old Courthouse, and locating parking lots around the perimeter of the building itself. Commissioner Bowman arrived at the meeting at 7:15 P.M. Mr. Halback noted that the other optional concept involves possibly keeping the old Courthouse and finding a use for it, and the only impact of that is that it increases the parking require- ments because you are saving more square footage of buildings. He then asked Transportation Engineer Mark Hardgrove to talk about the traffic impact of the facility and some of the steps he went through. Mark Hardgrove of the Transportation Consulting Group reviewed the steps gone through in their traffic impact analysis and advised that, after looking at the potential trip generation of a courthouse, they found the downtown area operated quite well in terms of level of service. The existing courthouse trip generation is 800 vehicles per day, and the proposed courthouse trip generation would be approximately 1500, or an increase of 700 vehicles per day. No significant roadway type improvements would be needed because of this project. Mr. Hardgrove explained that they went through a parking'.generation analysis, taking the actual number of employees, plus an estimated average number of visitors and jurors, and determined a need for 442 spaces - the high number of need was 515. They looked at surface 3 JUN 13 IWO BOOK 80 N�U'T'5`00 � I