I mentioned it at the commission on aging meeting. Some of the people crossing here are on those walkers with wheels and are in jeopardy, even when they press the walk button. As it stands, I have to drive to either Woodland Hills or North Hollywood to visit a Target. There are no stores like it in our area, and an affordable store would be a huge benefit to the community. The Target store would blend in with the surrounding area and would diminish the limited existing parking.
Target is conducive to the viability of the downtown area.
Due to its size and single tenant retail use, the proposed project is very compatible with the smaller retail, restaurant, office and residential uses that exist in the area and will become the greatest asset in the city's ill conceived and dangerous downtown redevelopment. Target would complement the existing downtown Third Street Promenade shopping and business district. This project creates a more unified shopping venue. Because Target is a large retail store, it will provide on-site excessive parking spaces that will alleviate the downtown area parking crunch. This would significantly benefit the over all design concept for the downtown area, especially in the areas of traffic flow problems caused by the lack of a master plan and due to a biased desire by staff to placate the needs of City Council to create a upscale non-affordable downtown area, a desired goal of having constricted traffic flow.