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6 <br />Parking <br />o Ideally, people would park on the periphery of downtown and then take other means to <br />get Downtown (e.g. walk, scooters, shuttle). People with limited mobility should have <br />more access closer to their destination. <br />o Downtown is rich in parking facilities but we need better wayfinding to help people find <br />parking quickly and easily. <br />o Parking in garages is less convenient—so perhaps it should be priced at a cheaper rate <br />than street parking? How can we incentivize people to park more quickly in garages so <br />they aren’t clogging streets looking for parking? <br />o Despite there being a lot of available parking Downtown, people complain there is no free <br />parking Downtown. <br />Woodside Road <br />o Improving Woodside Road is a challenge due to conflicting priorities (e.g. State wants to <br />maintain it as a high volume auto thoroughfare). <br />o Lack of safe bike and pedestrian connection across Woodside Road is an equity issue. <br />Important for neighborhoods on both sides. <br />o Would be great to have more ped crossings. <br />o Concern about at-grade crossings on Woodside. <br />o Woodside Road pedestrian bridge (at Stambaugh) is very unsafe. People have been <br />attacked. Safety issues need to be addressed—lights, cameras, etc. People take other <br />routes to avoid the bridge. <br />o Hesitant to advocate for ped bridges because they feel unsafe at night. Feels like a second <br />class facility. Preference for an at-grade crossing. <br />o Would a pedestrian underpass beneath Woodside be feasible/preferable? <br />o Would like to see the grade separation of ECR and Woodside eliminated. Current <br />Woodside off-ramps onto ECR dump traffic into neighborhoods. <br />Veterans Blvd <br />o How can we reduce the crossing distance? Refuge islands? <br />o Veterans is a scary and ugly street. Could be improved with greenery. Would like to see <br />protected bike lanes and have it be a more welcoming gateway to Redwood City. <br />o Is it wide enough for a center running bike/pedestrian way? It feels like such a big divide. <br />Having a refuge in the middle might make it feel more accessible. <br />Open Space <br />Strong support for more green space in neighborhoods and in retail districts (e.g. Main Street <br />doesn’t have trees Downtown). Interest in more outdoor dining on Main Street. <br />Support for additional open space in Stambaugh-Heller and better connectivity to Hoover Park. <br />Appreciative of creative thinking around using existing public rights of way to provide more public <br />open space. <br />o There are several very wide neighborhood streets in Centennial and Stambaugh-Heller <br />that provide opportunities for greening. <br />o Interest in installing “greenways” in existing streets but need to think carefully about how <br />we fit them into limited rights of way. <br />Would be nice to have some kind of softer green space adjacent to Courthouse Square. For <br />example, pedestrianizing Hamilton. <br />Need to plan and design for a healthy urban forest—e.g. trees need enough volume underground <br />to survive. <br />12.A. - Page 66 of 69 <br />285