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9 8 This street redesign makes accessing this space much better for vehicles and for pedestrians/bikers.-1 9 Yes! Get rid of this awful ugly car dealership and replace with 4+1s!-- 10 I am in full support of this project! It is so nice to see housing expanded and opportunities for businesses to grow. There is so much land to take advantage of to house everyone and creating more housing can help stabilize the rent market! 2 - 11 This looks cleaner than the assorted commercial buildings currently at the corner.2 - #Ideas and Suggestions Likes Dislikes 1 Placing a roundabout here at the extension of Palmer Drive would help to control speed through this section.-- 2 Instead of the mixed use stuff here, why not make a transit hub? I’m thinking bike parking (with clear, all-weather bike lanes up Silver Lake Drive to residential areas), multiple bus stops, electric scooters, and cab/uber/lyft pickup areas. I think it’s ok to have some Mixed-Use residential apartments here, but we need a clear plan of how to support their transportation with parking, buses, etc. -- 3 Does this mean that Cowboy Jacks would be removed?4 2 4 We are proposing a fair amount of mixed use with 1 level of commercial with housing above. Seems like a good use but to my knowledge this doesn’t exist anywhere within the city currently. Are there other examples of this in the north metro at major freeway intersections that we could go to for a feel of what this would be like? 8 - 5 Consider rotating the overall building orientation so outdoor amenities can be south facing (catch the rays)2 - 6 I think that this small central park is going to be overlooked as an amenity, its not big enough to be a destination but too busy to being a relaxing area for locals to chill. Maybe as a dog park/green space.4 1 7 This “park” seems small. Why not move all of the parking for this entire site as a level underground? This would open up the entire center aisle and create a true park and central amenity space for the whole area west of SLR and south of Palmer Drive. Additionally, the planned parking for this entire 694 rezoned area seems on the low side for what looks to be planned in terms of commercial and residential. Moving parking underground alleviates this problem as well. 2 - 8 Bigger park please! Maybe some parking moved below ground so that’s nicer in the winter?-- 9 Like the idea of green space but this one feels like it’s just plopped in the middle of a parking lot. With traffic on almost all sides, how relaxing/safe/accessible would it be?8 - 10 I love the idea of making this more walkable and bikeable, right now I don’t feel safe biking along silver lake rd in this area and I don’t ever consider walking in the area due to fast traffic on Silver Lake Road. To make this work, I’d say you’d have to lower the speed to 30 and consider putting in speed humps or something - if it’s still 40mph, just putting in a cross walk feels dangerous. 1 - 11 I would love to see this city become more walkable/bike friendly. For that to happen I feel literature & enforcement needs to happen. Pedestrians have the right of way at pedestrian crossings. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve had close calls either because cars don’t stop even if I’ve had a walk sign, or have had to wait forever because people don’t feel it necessary to stop for pedestrians. Maybe instead of speed traps, have a campaign to make people aware they NEED to stop. 6 - 12 What’s the goal here? Obviously, more commercial and residential. Wouldn’t a greater sense of community and activation of the street front be achieved by putting parking behind and bringing stores to the street front? This would generate more activity and more business and also look better than surface parking lots, which is how it looks now with a car dealership there. -1