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`.~"~--~ SITE EVALUATION ~r~..».~ ~m Elimination of the jail from its current location would also remove the need far the existing Sheriff's Department parking lot at the corner of Means Avenue and Church Street. To strengthen the link between the County Government Center on Church Street and the main business district on Union Street, a public green space could replace this parking lot, providing an inviting, pedestrian-friendly park at the center of downtown Concord. This could both enhance the appearance and use of the historic Courthouse and reinforce the rcadicional concept of the "courthouse square" as the center of public activity downtown. Figure 6 shows an alternace uFthe option presented above. The total projected jaiUlaw enforcement need of 265,000 syuare fee[ is shown in a four- or six-level building located at die in[ersection of Corban Avenue and Church Street and a future new courthouse of 191,000 square feet in a Eour-level building locared az the corner of Llnion Srreer and Corban Avenue. This would place all county law enforcement, jail, and tour[ functions on the same property, in buildings immediately adjacent co each other. Depending on the amount of additional property acyuired, dte site could provide room for additional expansion in the future, with cour[s expansion occurring co the south along Union Street South and the jail expanding either to the south, lxhind the couahouse, or to the east. In this option, the esisting jail would be demolished as soon as possible. The existing courts building could either be demolished, freeing land for a public green space at the center of downtown, or renovated to amommodaze some ocher civic function, such as a museum, cultural centeq or additional office space. Use of the full site presents an opportunity to create a significant County civic campus Site 46 -ParkingAkernate Figure 6 Tpril?00A 13 r r LJ~ G- ~-