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307 In order to put some metrics to this, they used land use and looked at what it is 308 connecting to. They worked with staff to come up with the scoring and worked 309 with institutional uses as a different type of destination, parks and open spaces, 310 public facilities, and employment facilities. 311 312 Mr. Freihammer explained the term "public facility" was removed from the first 313 bullet point because it appears on the third bullet point. It defines public space as 314 places such as a library or City Hall, and is only used once in the totals. He stated 315 the red areas on the handout are the areas they made changes on after they ran a 316 scenario with the pathway plan. If a pathway connects to multiple parks, it receives 317 multiple points. 318 319 Chair Cihacek inquired why connecting to multiple parks gets multiple points, but 320 connecting to multiple employment centers only gets one point. 321 322 Mr. Freihammer responded they did it this way because one of the ways of their 323 methodology is counting by parcels of businesses. There is another criteria that is 324 based on employees and they did not want to give too much weight to it. People 325 tend to walk to parks, it is not counted in any other criteria, and they felt it was 326 more valuable to keep it there. 327 328 Mr. Culver commented one challenge with parcels in Rosedale and other areas, is 329 there are many more employers than there are parcels. An employment number may 330 be a better indicator, but it is a Transportation Analysis Zone (TAZ) level. If you 331 touch the TAZ, which are larger squares, then you are touching that number of 332 employees. You may only be touching the western side of it and all the employees 333 are spread out throughout the TAZ. These ranking criteria are not perfect, but it 334 provides the opportunity to take in a lot of different factors and reasonably score 335 these segments. 336 337 Chair Cihacek commented his main concern with the point spread is that it 338 potentially biases recreational use versus employment use. However, there may not 339 be a better smaller measure than a TAZ because they are not a large community. 340 With the Transportation Plan, which is helping shift where people are traveling to, 341 some of the areas such as commercial or employment may become more important 342 than recreational use. 343 344 Member Wozniak suggested they change Commercial use to Mixed Use, or use 345 whatever the land use terminology is. 346 347 Mr. Hingeveld explained this was based off the current land use map which does 348 not have Mixed Use as a term. The future land use map does introduce Mixed Use. 349 350 Member Thumau inquired if they should consider using future land use in this 351 section if it is something they want to include in the adopted land use guide. 352 Page 8 of 15