TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Marisa Lundstedt, Community Development Director
Nhung Madrid, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Downtown Specific Plan Project Update (Community Development Director Lundstedt).
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council, discuss the Downtown Specific Plan project update and provide direction on the preferred design alternative.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No fiscal impact at this time.
BACKGROUND:
Since June 2014, the community has been engaged in an ongoing discussion of the future of downtown. In early 2015, the City collaborated with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to conduct a week-long visioning charrette to engage community stakeholders and evaluate the Downtown area. The recommendations from ULI's evaluation were presented to the community in a public presentation with the premise that a consultant would develop the implementation tool designed to carry out the vision and recommendations for Downtown. Based on the visioning action items presented by ULI, Staff prioritized the action items into four categories, which the City Council approved at the February 23, 2015 City Council Study Session. In addition to prioritizing the action items, City Council hired Pacific Municipal Consultants (PMC), now known as Michael Baker International (MBI) to prepare the Downtown Specific Plan.
Following prioritization of the ULI recommendations, staff has been working on implementing both public and private sector action items concurrently with the preparation of the Downtown Specific Plan. Although some of the action items may be outside the scope of a Specific Plan such as the formation of a Downtown Residents' Group (DRG) or filling the Economic Development Manager position, staff recognizes that these actions...
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