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South B7nd Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting - May 2, 1980 6. NEW (BUSINESS F'1 Mrs. Kolata continues... In order to achieve this high density development, current zoning restrictions regarding the parking exemption is not compatible. The Land Use Plan that we intend to propose within the next few months will have provisions for parking and will have a requirement for parking, but it will not be the same as what the current requirements are for this area. With that in mind we would like to recommend to the City Council that they pass a revision in the parking use to include an area from Jefferson to Niles to PIadison and then back to the river. This would make the area exempt from the parking restriction, as the downtown is. The parking component of the land use plan that we will be bringing to you later in the summer will probably provide for some surface parking over in the block between Niles and Hill Street, but the main or core area of East Bank we would see the land as much too valuable to devote to surface parking lot. Another related issue has to do with controlled uses. We would like to see the area developed with high density residential, but we also see that being as close to Century Center in downtown as it is, that there is great interest in having restaurant facilities, and to exempt them from the controlled use restriction in the same way that the downtown is exempt from the 1,000 ft. limitation on the number of controlled uses that can be given. We are talking in terms of Class "A' restaurants, not anything beyond that, and that again, the controls that will be put into effect through the land use plan when we adopted the redevelopment area, will also have some say as to where commercial development would take place within the area. We feel that in order to proceed with the land use plan for the redevelop- ment area we have to have this question settled. -15-