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L' •Gene.-Winstead said::he-.was .Oper.ations. Manager: for•:-American Amusement :. . 2 Arcades; • 3 said .he. . was als.o... 'Vice Chairman of the. .- Bloomington Planning 4 . Commission as::: well•. : -as the...- President of the Bloomington Crime '. 5. Prevention. Association and:-understood the City' s .concerns. about car 6 prowls and vandalism in. parking lots; 7 said .: there isn' t a shopping mall in the metropolitan area that 8 doesn' t experience . the same type of problems ; - 9 indicated he didn'-t know just how directly these activities were_ 10 connected to youth activities; 11 said his organization was not so naive as to believe none of the 12 "bad -seeds" frequent their establishments.. or attempt to come in; 13 said they have spent time with :managers to identify problems which 14 occur. 15 Werenicz agreed car prowling problems occur where there are large 16 numbers of. cars parked in . lots and- said- he perceived to.. -locate this • 17 type of -business .- near the area where large numbers,,of cars are 18 parked near the access to both- the bowling -alley ,and . the- bar 19 would just be adding a third source of congregation. 20 Winstead agreed there would- be ' an older crowd frequenting the • 21 arcade later at night, but challenged .the perception that problems 22 with the congregation -could be directly connected to the arcade. 23 werenicz responded_ to Mr. Winstead' s statement that in Bloomington 24 the-number-.of car parking ,problems in parking lots had been cut 25 down -by the _actions of business crime watch groups by saying he 26 had found through the surveys he had taken of the eight communities 27 where this business had establishments , that the number of instan- .- 28 ces. had been cut down after- either t-hose arcades had hired off-duty 29 police or - the hours of operation had been reduced -to the hours the 30 mall was open; 31 said. he had .also . noted the malls which had kept to the mall hours 32 didn' t seem to- have pool tables in them. 33 - Winstead pointed out that one of the reasons his company . wanted 34 to have pool tables at this location had been because they needed 35 them to fill up. the space :which resulted from only. 34 device 36 licenses-..being available to them; 37 added that there had been a great resurgence of interest for all. 38 ages .in: pool the. past few years; -39. indicated the pool tables would be . somewhat smaller than-full -scale . 40 tables and would be easier for younger children to play. 16