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F - JUN 13 1990 BOOK 80 F'AfE«., advised that they were challenged by staff to get as realistic as they could about cost. They looked at some of the items that were driving the cost up, and in a lot of cases, they felt it was structured parking in relation to what it cost for surface parking. They also felt that the cost was more prohibitive when you took the facility out of the central core and that, in addition, it limited the opportunities to create an urban solution by linking some of the public buildings up into a very strong government core. Commissioner Scurlock asked if they have been talking with the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Mr. Halback confirmed that this was presented to them, and Administrator Chandler assured him that we also have met with the City Manager and City staff and talked mainly about parking requirements. Parking has been a primary area of focus with the City; in fact, their change of parking requirements is what necessitated the change in our original plan. In terms of traffic flow between buildings, etc., we originally zeroed in on a 6 square block area and then expanded it to 9 blocks, and we are trying to keep everything consistent with the City's requirements and their planning. Dennis Ragsdale, Assistant Planning Director for the City of Vero Beach, informed the Board that what they discussed was that the first 2 phases of the courthouse facility would require about 515 parking spaces based on City Code. The City staff's position was that more spaces would be necessary to meet the Code, but they were willing to agree with the consultants and the County to put in 515 spaces for the first two phases, and at the time the third phase would be completed, or the shell would be completed on the inside, they would re-evaluate the situation to determine if the 515 spaces had been adequate to meet the demand. If they had not, the additional spaces the City then would require would come up to the neighborhood of about 665. 6 _I