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<br />Historic Preservation Commission <br /> <br />February 23, 2004 Page 11 <br /> <br />WOMAN: I make that motion. <br /> <br />DR. HAYDEN: I have some other issues. <br /> <br />WOMAN: Oh we have some other objeetions. <br /> <br />STARRETT: Alright. Dr. Hayden. Please do, sir. <br /> <br />DR. HAYDEN: Marvin and I had a long discussion about this about 4 or 5 <br />o'cloek and as he said fortunatcly he is not very sensitive. Because ¡ told him that <br />¡ did not like anything about this. You know we spent a million dollars stabilizing <br />and preserving a historic building and we are fixing to minimize the effect of that <br />by doing something like this. That is the way I feel about it. Less is more in this <br />particnlar case like it is in most pieces of architecture, we are overdoing it you <br />sec. Paul had a good idea. I would make a simple sign that simply says Union <br />Station, Chamber of Commerce, Genealogy Society, and Heritage Park. Eye lcvcl <br />and let it go at that. What I think is extremely important right here is that we <br />consider that as it exists right now the Depot is an island and if we extended that <br />island out to Bonham Street and had a grass area, a green area in there that could <br />be landscaped, then you would make the sign much better and mueh easier to <br />accommodate the sign and you would have a nice thing that blends in with the <br />deal. As far as the parking places are cone em ed, I don't see a proh1em right thcre <br />because we have plenty of parking on the west side and the east side of that <br />building and we don't need any parking along that green area. And if we put that <br />green area therc then we can put some shrubs out there in the street to keep those <br />trueks from parking out there and that would never be a problem. So that your <br />vision ofthe Depot from the street would be completely unobstructed by any1hing <br />except for the Depot itself. People ride down that street and never see that Depot <br />over there. So I think that in all fairness Linda had showed me that before and I <br />told her that I thought it was pretty neat but T really wasn't too enthusiastic at the <br />time. But Marvin and I had a nice discussion about this and I didn't hm1 his <br />feelings. But I feel like two of those things go together. <br /> <br />STARRETT: Thank you Dr. Hayden very much. Stcve if you will hclp my <br />memory, the only parking that was allowed in the new parking plan there were <br />four handicapped spaces near the building and then the rest. <br /> <br />STEVE: Two I believe <br /> <br />STARRETT: Two and the rest was grassy median. <br /> <br />DENNEY: If you all will remember, we discussed that a little bit. ¡ locked horns <br />a little bit with Gary Vest on it because what my idea was you have that old <br />