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Show Organization establishes parking plan CEDAR CITY - The newly established Cedar City Downtown Parking Authority Committee met for the first time Sept. 9 to devise a method of operation, and also to establish the goals of the organization. According to Brian Jorgensen, chairman of the parking authority, one of the primary purposes of this committee com-mittee is to see that adequate parking is provided for all businesses in ' the downtown area. "One of our main goals will be to support the city ordinance to see that there is no overdevelopment over-development or to much retail space and not enough parking space," said Jorgensen. The parking authority also decided during the course of the meeting to assist the city's redevelopment agency to establish a plan to develop adequate parking areas. Members of the parking authority also plan to establish a fair method of assessing charges to businesses for any parking that they need and for general maintenance. Looking into the future, the parking authority decided to meet with Burrows, Smith and Bache the city's bonding agency, to consult with them and set some guidlines at their next scheduled meeting. "Another reason that the ' bonding agency will be coming down is to explain to us what other parking authorities have done and are doing to solve their parking problems," stated Jorgensen. Jorgensen explained that part of the parking authority's responsibility is to look into situations where there could be a potential problem with people that own property stringing up buildings and not taking into consideration where their customers are going to park. Jorgensen went on to say that for every square foot of store space and for so many empoyees there must be so many feet of parking space. |