So what were able to do is look at other cities case studies from brt studies and look at the imperial study in terms of businesses with and without parking. Ill give you some information about this from our efforts. Here the case study we did of cleveland the euclid youth line that was implemented a few years ago weve designated the bus lines in chesterfield certainly weve seen increased private investment since the brt system was built and theres definitely a response to comforting the transit and infrastructure on the street there. Weve also seen some implementations and results from new york city in the bronx on ford up road there was a traffic time improvements. In that can i they were able to look at the retail sales embarrassed to borough wide weve seen other cities improvements in the economic outcome. And so what we did was take a look at the imperial information on gary corridor of the existing conditions. We have business diode on gary that are located in front of a bus stop
So role the ordinance it doesnt stop them people are saying your abandoning e cigarettes every placed where i can smoke you can smoke e cigarettes yeah. This remind me of a may or may not of alcoholic concoctions to kid that is an area that needs to be nipped in the bud. Especially to the sense that nicotine is addictive this is a new addictive substance so it seems appropriate to regulate this as tobacco nicotine is addictive im gladly you brought that up. Anything to say commissioners, thank you for the correlation. Commissioner riley. You mentioned you get a lot of phone calls people are confused did you do any outreach like talking to bar owners or restaurants owners or school teachers. Yeah. We have recently because of the ordinance being introduced, you know, our offices had to do some outreach so transit both muni and bart we contacted and asked them. We hear about folks youre going them in confusion so i give them some education. I think who products are new folks are trying to
May or may not of alcoholic concoctions to kid that is an area that needs to be nipped in the bud. Especially to the sense that nicotine is addictive this is a new addictive substance so it seems appropriate to regulate this as tobacco nicotine is addictive im gladly you brought that up. Anything to say commissioners, thank you for the correlation. Commissioner riley. You mentioned you get a lot of phone calls people are confused did you do any outreach like talking to bar owners or restaurants owners or school teachers. Yeah. We have recently because of the ordinance being introduced, you know, our offices had to do some outreach so transit both muni and bart we contacted and asked them. We hear about folks youre going them in confusion so i give them some education. I think who products are new folks are trying to figure out how to resolve this on their own ive seen bars and restaurants with signs but theres a lot of uncertainty and with this ordinance certainly there would be strong
May or may not of alcoholic concoctions to kid that is an area that needs to be nipped in the bud. Especially to the sense that nicotine is addictive this is a new addictive substance so it seems appropriate to regulate this as tobacco nicotine is addictive im gladly you brought that up. Anything to say commissioners, thank you for the correlation. Commissioner riley. You mentioned you get a lot of phone calls people are confused did you do any outreach like talking to bar owners or restaurants owners or school teachers. Yeah. We have recently because of the ordinance being introduced, you know, our offices had to do some outreach so transit both muni and bart we contacted and asked them. We hear about folks youre going them in confusion so i give them some education. I think who products are new folks are trying to figure out how to resolve this on their own ive seen bars and restaurants with signs but theres a lot of uncertainty and with this ordinance certainly there would be strong
Because of the ordinance being introduced, you know, our offices had to do some outreach so transit both muni and bart we contacted and asked them. We hear about folks youre going them in confusion so i give them some education. I think who products are new folks are trying to figure out how to resolve this on their own ive seen bars and restaurants with signs but theres a lot of uncertainty and with this ordinance certainly there would be strong education to make sure with 9 public is aware were just treating this as cigarettes to be aware of any law that you wouldnt see it applies to all now thanks. Commissioner dwight. And the odor is quite strong its an invasion even if peoples privacy to be subjected to an odor or sound around you keep it to yourself wear a patch and dont bother anybody but it should be rained in especially to urban quarters. Any other commissioner questions before we open up for any Public Comment . Do we have any members of the public who want to make a comment