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Fq1 REPORT yy To the Honora b a _t n Ci Counci) Firom the Ci>Ey lllanager April 14, 2002 Subject Design of Jefferson Garage underground parking structure. Recommendation That the City Council not re -open the question of the design of the Jefferson Garage under the Retail /Cinema project. Background To improve business downtown, the City' has been facilitating a private development project (the Cinema Project) for 85,000 SF of retail and restaurants on the first floor and a 20- screen Century Theaters multiplex cinema on the second floor on what the City refers to as Block One. The project would be built over a 590 space, two -level public parking garage (the Jefferson Garage) with the garage entrance on Jefferson Avenue. As part of the retail /cinema project, the City has also committed to creating 300 additional public parking places on Block Two, across Middlefield Road from Block One. In December 2002, the City approved an amended Development and Disposition Agreement (the DDA) for the project and the developer began the design development phase of the project. On March 3, the architects presented the architectural design concepts to a joint study session of the City Council, Planning Commission, and Architectural Review Committee. On March 27 at a similarjoint session, urban designer Michael Freedman presented the streetscape around the project including an outdoor dining pedestrian area on what was termed "Theater Way," between the Cinema and the adjacent historic Fox Theater. The participants in the study session were very supportive of these concepts. At the close of the second study session, Nick Watry, a local parking consultant presented an alternative design concept for the Jefferson Garage that would change the design of the garage and the location of the garage entrance. City staff volunteered to evaluate the altemative parking design concept. At the beginning of that evaluation Mr. Watry offered a second altemative design to replace the first one. His second design, like the existing design, is a two -level underground garage. Analysis Staff has analyzed the alternative garage design concepts and does not recommend them. A detailed analysis is enclosed. A summary of this analysis follows: ' The term "City" is used generically to include both the City of Redwood City and the Redevelopment Agency. F:Atty /CD /Agenda.JeffersonGarage 1