Upcoming borough Parking Committee meeting Sept. 8

For those residents who want to get the latest information on the Mosteller Garage replacement project, I recommend that you attend the borough Parking Committee meeting Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. It's going to be a chance to give your point of view about how big the garage should be.
According to the demand study, put together by the Harman Group, the borough's parking consultants, the garage should have at least 844 parking spaces. The design study also written by the Harman Group indicates that the garage if it were to stay within the 75-foot height limitation and comply with stepback requirements, it could only have 763 parking spaces including a basement. But according to an internal borough memo, both the Walnut and the Chestnut streets sides of the garage have to have the stepback which will reduce the number of parking spaces to 700. A stepback is a section of the facade that stepbacks from the face of the building. It gives detail to the architecture so that the building does not look like a monolithic slab. But stepbacks take away parking spaces. Seventy-five feet equals an eight tier parking garage.
To complicate matters further, the 844 spaces indicated by the demand study doesn't include the Zukin hotel parking or the YMCA parking.
The Zukin hotel conditional use hearing was postponed until Oct. 13. Meanwhile, I've heard through the grapevine, that the YMCA is in negotiations with a buyer. No word on how many parking spaces that buyer will need.
I think it will be a little difficult to not go to 95 feet or 10 tiers. But then again, maybe the borough can't afford that large a garage.