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a. Re-evaluate parking requirements; assess property owners for redesigning public and private parking areas. b. Where possible in (or between) multi-story office building areas, create two level parking or under-building spaces; allowing surface level parking to remain open for visitors and customers. 7. Recognize, utilize, and assist the Cornerstone Merchant's.Association) in business projects. 8. Request special district enabling legislation to maintain and. improve business district parking and rehabilitation, and installation of other public improvements. 9. Develop a continuously updated five-year action plan in cooperation with the Cornerstone residents and merchants to facilitate public and private investment and rehabilitation. 10. Prevent scattered strip or neighborhood spot development as a drain on the economic vitality of the Cornerstone. Limit the size and location of neighborhood convenience stores and require such uses to be of a residential architectural character yet buffered from the adjacent residential area. Encourage multi-family housing (rental and owner occupied) to locate conveniently nearby or adjacent to the Cornerstone. 11. Annually or biannually reassess the valuation and conditions of the- district commercial structures providing for safety, fairer assessments, and a better planning data base. Complete a market study of needed office, retail, and food uses for the Cornerstone at least once every four years, with an update every two years. 12. Create road side insignias or logos to identify the Cornerstone district entrances. 13. Encourage businesses to open for early morning uses and late afternoon shopping by neighbors before and after work. 14. Install a variety of large street trees and flag poles along the Public right-of-ways within the Cornerstone in order to visually soften and unify the architectures and to provide summer color and shade. To give the corners more of a "sense of place", light the trees in the winter. 15. Require at least one multi-story, brick and glass long-lasting landmark type building at each Cornerstone corner. 16. Create a neighborhood atmosphere for the Cornerstone. In cooperation with the merchants chamber groups, orient community festivals and events to the Cornerstone neighborhoods and residents.