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6. OLD BUSINESS (Cont'd Commissioner Wiggins said he is certainly in sympathy with the philosophy of the stage and can see where this can be of real benefit to the Plaza. Also, he has to be aware of cost factors, but also feels that we have an obligation perhaps to be aware of creating activities throughout the length of the Plaza and that they not be solely concentrated in one very small part to the exclusion of the rest of it, because this then means that we have created a facility here and we are only going to use 30% of it, which is ridiculous. Mr. Wilcox said he couldn't agree with this statement more, and that they are under duress occasionally- - frequently- -from the extremities of the existing Plaza as to why the activities may or may not be in a particular given area, and I think again the philosophy was to use 100% of the length of the Mall, not to be necessarily bound by blocks, because we have to have at this point more or less pedestrian traffic - -100 block south /200 block south- - and certainly our business people, and I include them in our supporters of our Plaza activities, are entitled to and are asking for activities in their areas. "We are just now in the process of developing a major activity in the block in fron the Morris Civic Auditorium. It's been a problem for us, and as it happens there is a group of craftsmen in one of those shops and will do a street fair kind of thing in that area. de have a couple of dance groups who are going to take advantage of the iifferent elevations in that area. The block specifically asked about prior, there has not been as much activity down there as I would like. , ertainly if a stage would be put down there, I could see that becoming i major traffic block." s I thought about this, Commissioner Wiggins said, "several other things lave come to mind. I happen to believe that the economy in this country is in thE: process of turning around; that it will turn around. That this ountry and this City have a real_ future. That things can and will happen. ow,.as a part of that, I am willing to make the assumption that the uperblock will come to pass. That it will come in being, and that in the rocess of this kind of a development, there is going to arise immediately need to program things that will pull people into it; that there will be pace within it by virtue of the streets that go through it that create of only stages but present performances, and that this will probably, 1s a logical matter of course, happen. Then we might then wind up with the tage outside of the door of another stage, and we might then wind up ith a problem of trying to create more attention of getting things further own a little more remote from that, because that, in itself, will be a raffic generator. And, I wonder if we might not be able to accommodate oth of these things: That we might not be able to go with the original lan in this block, and, at the same time, create a stage where we have pace for people to be. I can foresee some problems with the permanant tage with the depressed seating and the Commission will have no real ontrol over the maintenance in the future, and the depressed seating rea can present a lot of real maintenance problems that we can't be sure ill be handled, and that we will have no real input to see that they are 'and led. "