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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 5 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Doug Biggs: And so we would be grandfathered in. If there was an attempt to deny the grandfathering, then that's a legal term called a taking which is kind of like eminent domain, or even harder where they would be forcefully taking property from us and would have to compensate us for not only all of our expenses we've incurred but the cost of not having that service. When the other piece of property was transferred, part of what the city was prepared to do was to put a companion ordinance on the ballot, that would have set aside money from the general fund to pay any legal costs, and that's probably what they would have to do in this case as well. I think doing the signatures, in some ways, that's fine, it's okay, it's good. It allows them to present, "These are people that are concerned about it", so that we do have to take notice. And I think for that in that sense, it was effective. And I get it, that it's not the most popular thing people would want in their neighborhood given a myriad of choices, but there aren't choices. But it's enough of a presence that we have to acknowledge it and we have to and we want to work with them. Commissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: And thanks for the presentation. And the same with me, I've have seen them at shopping centers and stuff. And the question I have is, you say you have 73, 78 parking spaces? Doug Biggs: Yes. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Do you need them? Do you really have so many people? Doug Biggs: No. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: So what's going to happen? Doug Biggs: Very good question. We don't. Currently, I think there's 95 or 100 parking spaces out there, and so we're taking out one row to put in the multipurpose area and a community garden. City Code requires you to have a certain number of parking spaces. And so we've kept that in for now, we don't think we'll need anywhere near that many. In the interim period we're definitely open to allowing East Bay Regional Parks to use that. Like for example, when they have Concerts at the Cove or a special event like that, we could see opening up our space to allow them to park there or allow them to park their facilities vehicles there, then other people could park in the other space. So we're talking to them about that. As soon as we mentioned they could borrow our space, their first question was, "Well can we have it?" because they want more parking and we're definitely open to having that discussion. We can't give away the land now because, one, we don't have it and two, we just need to get further in the design phase, then we'll know exactly how many units we need and at that point we're perfectly open to have them used for other purposes. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: And when you say community garden, would the neighbors be able to use the garden? Doug Biggs: We could certainly create that opportunity, if there was interest in it. We really see it more as a therapeutic for folks to get out and be active but if there's interest in it. 09/12/18 Page 5 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |