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It is our recommendation that we continue to work with our TxDOT partners, Main Street Advisory Board, and Traffic Commission to identify the most feasible means to implement the two-way traffic reversion plans assuming that traffic controls remain at the square. Many more discussions need to take place to determine what options we may have. This may even include revisiting the Toole Design Study to update it given the work that has occurred downtown since 2018; something that must be done in close partnership with TxDOT. On more positive notes, as a result of the Plan 4 Health Conference held in Paris this past August, a number of short-term low cost measures are being explored to help calm and slow traffic through the immediate downtown area. This would employ the use of vertical delineators in the stripping gore areas along the sidewalks where curb extension eyebrows will someday be reconstructed with enlarged sidewalk/planting/dining areas. This will result in safer travel distances at intersections. TxDOT has expressed a willingness to allow these devices to be installed. They have also agreed to allow the City to create design changes to the crosswalks that would look similar to the stamped and stained brick designs on Church Street that could be added to the existing street paved surface. TxDOT has also agreed to a trial exercise for the temporary improvement of back in parking to the existing angled parking areas on one side of the square. This has been tried successfully in other community's in Texas and other states. This was also an outcome recommendation from the Plan 4 Health Conference as a part of the walk audits that were conducted in our downtown area and recommended by the keynote speaker Mr. Mark Fenton. Page 5 of 5