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Eliminating the additional parking wouldn't solve the lack of parking that has been complained
about, Stewart said. The requests for more parking have come primarily from downtown
business owners, and their tax dollars are paying for improvements in the CRA, he said.
"If we have the same parking that we have now, then we haven't done anything," Stewart said.
Nathan Thomas, a real estate broker who attended the meeting, said there's much more parking
that exists in the downtown perimeter, especially near the park and recreation administrative
offices.
"If (the redesign is) nice, they are going to walk to it," Thomas said. But City Commissioner
Allen Johnson said people who go to the downtown park are used to parking close to it. "People
aren't going to park across the train tracks to get downtown," Johnson said.
In redeveloping the downtown park, the city plans to move the basketball courts to a proposed
community center and gymnasium on Bennett Street. The redevelopment plans also include
moving the Chamber Main Street building, redesigning the tennis facilities, eliminating the
shuffleboard courts and creating a more open park.
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