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Item 2 Jack Powell made a proposal that the Chamber and the Town jointly do a parking accumulation study to find out exactly what the deficit is and where the problems areas are Tim Wege explained that such a study would involve segmenting the Center which would enable us to target solutions to specific problem areas He ad- vised that a professional consulting firm should be hired, their job would include doing an extensive field study Wege estimated that the cost would be between S8 ,500 to S15,000 The Chamber would ask the Town to contribute the lesser of $5,000 or 50% of the total cost Mrs Battin wondered if asking Town Meeting to support such a study would jeopardize our attended parking proposal(since normally a study would be done first , not in conjunction with implementing a new parking plan) Mrs Battin suggested that the study should be postponed until next year when, at that time , it could be used to judge the effectiveness of the attended parking Wege suggested that the study needs to be done during a time that is representative of the actual parking demand (Spring or Fall) It ws suggested that if our aim was to identify specific problem areas , this could be done by taking aerial photographs . This would have to be done in the Spring or Fall when the leaves are off the trees Laura Nichols pointed out that right now, through deduction, one could figure out where the shortages are She still felt that a study would be useful Wege questioned if the study should be done first Jack Powell said that it is not the intent of the Chamber 's proposal to delay the attended parking program He agreed that it would be useful to do such a study in the Fall to measure the effectiveness of the attended parking program Mr. Bowyer said that such a study would be an excellent tool for fine-tuning Bowyer said that a similar study done in 1974 by the LWV was not of much value today because the ground rules changed with the implementation of the parking program Karsten Sorensen still thought that aerial photos would be the best way to achieve desired information Mr Tonaszuck and Captain Lima agreed Captain Lima thought that we should give this idea serious thought since it was more economical Mr Bowyer advised the committee that there are different levels of infor- mation, available at different costs , that one could explore Mrs Frick told the committee that MAPC started to do parking studies on various towns She thought that they might be able to give us some help Mrs Battin suggested that Tim Wege sit down with Town staff and go over exactly what the Chamber is proposing and bring it back to the CRC at a future date (The warrant article is broad enough to cover such a study should we decide to proceed Item 3 The minutes of the last meeting were approved as submitted Item 4 Mrs Battin stated that , presumedly, the CRC should be taking a stand on the proposed zoning articles submitted by the Planning Board.