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Home My Public Portal About2016_M015 Letter to the LC BOS re Pennington Parking Garage COUNCIL MEETING August 9, 2016 MOTION 2016-015 I move to authorize the Mayor to send a letter to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Pennington Parking Garage. 1 I Page Town of David S. Butler Council Member.) jirginia Mayor Thomas S. Dunn, II Suzanne D. Fox Kelly Burk R. Bruce Gemmill Katie Sheldon Hammler Vice Mayor Fernando"Marty"Martinez 25 West Market Street,Leesburg,VA 20176•703-771-2733•FAX 703-771-2727•council@leesburgva.gov u www.leesburgva.gov August 10, 2016 The Honorable Phyllis Randall Loudoun County Board of Supervisors P.O. Box 7000 Mailstop#01 Leesburg, Virginia 20177-7000 Dear Chair Randall: On behalf of the Leesburg Town Council, I respectfully request that the Board of Supervisors reconsider your plans to build a fourth level on the proposed parking garage on the Pennington lot. If you have not reached a point in the design of the parking garage that would delay the project or make changes prohibitively expensive,the Town Council requests that you reduce the Pennington garage to three levels. While we appreciate your due diligence in ensuring that adequate parking is provided for the expanded courts complex and the county government center,we believe the projected parking needs have been based on maximum daily uses rather than average daily uses. In addition, given that there are no established standard parking metrics for courthouse uses,we believe that the parking metrics used have resulted in an overestimation of needed parking spaces. If your long-term plans include moving the government center functions out of downtown Leesburg and converting the existing government center building to courts uses,the demand for parking spaces at the Pennington garage will decline even further. The Town Council believes that a three-level parking garage on the Pennington lot will serve everyone's needs better than a four-level garage. It will be less intrusive to the surrounding residences, it will have fewer unused parking spaces, and it will cost less to build,thus saving taxpayer dollars. Thank you for your careful consideration of our request. I await your response. Very Sincerely, c ate:el a 17,14. David S. Butler Mayor Cc: Leesburg Town Council Loudoun County Board of Supervisors Kaj H. Dentler,Town Manager Tim Hemstreet,County Administrator Hometown of the 21" Century