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BAs Cinema Project, local parking architect Nick Watry proposed an alternate parking plan for the Jefferson Garage that would substantially change its configuration. The City Council requested that staff prepare this analysis of this Watry Proposal (which we call Watry #1). During the staff review process, Mr. Watry wrote a letter dated March 31 to the developer in which he proposed a different two -level garage ( Watry #2). Although Mr. Watry's proposals are not yet fully developed, this memo will address both Watry proposals based on the available information. Watry Proposal #1 The essence of Watry #1 is to attempt to save money by expanding the footprint of the Jefferson Garage to attempt to provide the required parking on one level instead of two. For that reason, the garage footprint (attached) is extended southerly under the northern sidewalk of Jefferson, easterly under Broadway, further north towards the Fox Theater under Theater Way, and further west under the Cinema, across Middlefield, and substantially into Block Two. (Unfortunately, the Watry #1 proposal does not produce the full number of required spaces.) Mr. Watry also proposes to use a "long span" structural system that would call for a different columnar layout for the garage, which could have an impact on the tenant spaces in the Cinema Project The proposal also moves the garage entrance from Jefferson Avenue to a location on a portion of Block Two, at the west end of what is proposed to be "Theater Way," between the Cinema Project and the adjacent historic Fox Theater. Mr. Watry has suggested that Theater Way could be one -way toward the railroad and could possibly be the route to the garage entrance. Vehicles could then exit the garage onto Middlefield going south toward Jefferson. Watry #1 also relocates the storm drain culvert across Middlefield Road and substantially onto Block Two. Watry Proposal #2 Watry #2 concedes that it is undesirable to extend the garage under Broadway and under the Jefferson sidewalk (as had been proposed in Watry #1) and instead uses two levels to provide the needed parking within the footprint of the present Jefferson garage design. One option in Watry #2 would create 590 parking stalls (similar to the present garage design) and the other would expand it to 690 parking stalls. Both options use the "long span" structural system proposed in Watry #1. Because it stays within a smaller footprint, Watry #2 would not change the culvert alignment. However, the garage entrance in Watry #2 is apparently in the Winslow/Theater Way /Middlefield intersection. (Mr. Watry's sketch is not entirely clear on this location.) 2