DFO,

A couple of things to think about when planning the garden. First, I believe that the parking requirements will be vastly underestimated. The additional rooms will fill up the Resort parking garage and more. There will need to be more parking around the new tower.

Second,the garden will bring hundreds of day visitors. Where will they park? Third, I know that is was presented that the resort guests will be fly in and not drive in but I dont buy that theory. I think the mix of the Resort guests will shift to driving guests who are going to see the garden.The convention business I believe is saturated and the new rooms nights will come more from individuals. Thus increasing the parking burden. Finally, what does this plan do to the McEuen plan? If we are giving up pavement for greenspace on Sherman does that plan need to be revisited? Maybe the baseball field can be saved and upgraded. This would eliminate the need to come up with all of the money to build the field on Ramsey.

The parking issue is critical. The only downside to the garden would be if they underestimate the parking needs.The garden visitors for the most part will be older. They are not going to walk a mile just to get there.

Eagle Eye

DFO: I agree 100% with Eagle Eye that the parking for the proposed Hagadone tower/gardens is vastly underestimated.

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