CompletedCity Council Listening Session - March 17, 2025

City Council Listening Session - March 17, 2025

Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:16 PMActual: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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[0:02] That's a good way to start, isn't it? With that being said, I will call our city council listening session to order. It is Monday 17 March. Thank you all for being here. We have the following people pre registered to talk tonight. We have Ronald Cliffton. Is Ronald here? [0:20] I don't see Ronald yet. Jeffrey Prayer, Robert, I see you. You're here. Marrier I see you. There she is. Laurence Button. All right. And you had signed up as well. I did. And your name? Dennis. Dennis, if Rod. [0:40] Excuse me and Jeffrey, don't make it, we'll get to you, but we're gonna push them to the back of the list right now, but that puts us about five people and 5 min each and I just want to make sure that we everybody gets a decent chance to talk. So why don't we start with Rod, come on up. Yep, you're up 1st man. [0:57] You know the drill, identify yourself and we've got about 5 min for a speaker so we can make sure that everybody gets a chance to talk. So good evening and live. Hello council. My name's Robert Coalman. I wanted to talk today about public transportation and parking at the new Community health and wellness centre. When I was looking, I've talked to. [1:17] Yeah, Council member mula briefly about this, but the the schematic for the new community Health and minor center is quite inconvenient when it comes to public transit. [1:29] For some of the bus stops that people would be arriving from throughout the city to the site, they would have to walk a thousand to 1200 ft to get to the main entrance. And it really seems like the layout of the site is not like transit riders are an afterthought, for sure. When, like a lot of. [1:49] When I go to a site that I've never been to on transit, like I look around, and if I. [1:55] When the new health and wellness center is there I look and I see, you know, glass windows, back wall, I don't see an entrance, right? You have to walk all the way around. And if you have like, if it's raining, if it's snowing, then that's quite a while to walk. There's NO, like you can't put a bush shelter like on the northeast corner cause it's like a. [2:14] It's a free write, you can't put a shelter there to block vision. And I think that it's, it being an afterthought is really a big issue when you guys consider that it seems like you guys are having a parking problem, and when it comes to, the ways that you guys are incentivizing people to use. [2:34] Transportation to reach the community health and wellness center. It seems that like all of the eggs are in the driving basket, right? There's, there is a sidewalk, there is like outdoor bike parking, but that's like the minimum that city code requires but what you do have is a bunch of free parking, and we all know that free parking. [2:54] Parking isn't actually free. Like when people like me, we take the bus, we walk, we bike to different businesses in Bloomington. The cost of that parking, we pay it NO matter what, because it's factored into the rent of the building, it's…

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