1. The Memorandum of Understanding requires the new lot to increase the number of parking spaces available to the public. The new lot design doesn't do that! The architects presenting the project to the Planning Board on 2/8 admitted that “it was a wash,” meaning that because of various restrictions we are going to come out with about the same number of spaces we had before.

2. This parking lot proposal shouldn’t even be considered, then, as it doesn’t fulfill the requirements of the M.O.U.

3. The architects claim the proposed new lot provides 33 spaces. But... their plans show two spaces in the propsed lot's south-west corner sloping down fully 6-9 feet in a single car length: they will be unuseable.

4. Our existing 26 space lot already lost at least 6 spaces when Posie’s was moved and the Inn/Market delivery drive was built.

5. There will be no net gain of parking space in this overall project if the lot is restored to 31 spaces. In fact, there will be an overall loss.

6. How will those enormous tractor-trailers back through the lot, between our cars, down to the loading dock?

7. Won't the U.S. Postal Service require reserve parking for its employees, further eliminating available public spaces?

1. According to the proposed plan, the distance a patron would have to walk to get their mail from the 2 handicapped parked spaces in the parking lot measures about 300 feet, the length of a football field. That's just one-way, and most of that is uphill.

2. The proposed handicapped ramp along the north side of the Heary Building, and the rise from the parking lot itself, do not provide the A.D.A. required level resting spots every 20 feet.

3. With no set-back from the proposed new entry street for the parking lot, the handicapped access ramp would be dangerously close to traffic. (And isn't a 10' set-back required by our Zoing Law?)

4. Should a single handicapped parking space be fit in at the front of the Heary Building, patrons would still have to walk 3-4 times further than they do now to get their mail. (Verbal assurances of two such spaces were given on 2/8, but they are not on the plans and they would not allow for the USPS drop box.)

1. The run-off from the asphalt new paved parking lot will be tied into our existing storm sewer and dumped straight into Cayuga Lake.

2. Excavation for the new lot likely will again encounter abandoned buried tanks used to store leaded gasoline and heating oil (from Chandler's Red & White). Residents will once more be exposed to hazardous waste in contaminated dust and dirt invading their homes, cars, and lungs.

3. Without preliminary planning through an Environmental Impact Study, the project will get held up -- as was the market demolition -- for emergency DEC involvement.

3. The plans show lighting in the lot. Do we want more exterior illumination at night downtown?

4. As happened during the construction of the replacement market, the underground water flow disturbed by this project could negatively impact the structural integrity of Route 90.

5. We need an Environmental Impact Study!

1. The architects stated on 2/8 that electrical lines for those parking lot lanps will be tied into our Village street lights, meaning the Village will pay for the electricity used to light a lot on land owned by Wells College and controlled by the LLC.

2. All maintenance of the lot and the Inn/Market delivery drive and loading dock will be at Village expense.