Title
Status Report on Opportunity Areas
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Receive report on Opportunity Areas. Briefing only; no action requested.
Report
Issue:
In ECONorthwest's 2013 Investment Strategy Report prepared in conjunction with the City's Community Renewal Area efforts they identified five opportunity areas. This oral report will provide a status report on each of the five areas and provide an overview of Focus Areas included in the Comprehensive Plan.
Staff Contact:
Keith Stahley, Director Community Planning and Development Department 360.753.8227
Presenter(s):
Keith Stahley, Director Community Planning and Development Department
Renee Sunde, Economic Development Director
Background and Analysis:
As part of the Community Renewal Area process in September of 2013 ECONorthwest prepared a report titled, "Investment Strategy: City of Olympia Opportunity Areas." This report identified and analyzed five possible areas that have development or redevelopment potential and is included as Attachment 1. This oral report will provide a status report on each area as well as touch on the Focus Areas identified in the Comprehensive Plan.
The five areas included as opportunity areas are: 1. Headwaters (Martin Way/Pacific), West Olympia Commercial (former landfill), former K-Mart, Division/Harrison and Kaiser/Harrison. Downtown was treated as a separate and distinct area with its own separate highly focused market study (Attachment 2) and planning work.
Focus areas are described in the Comprehensive Plan as:
Urban Corridors. This designation applies to certain areas in the vicinity of major arterial streets. Generally more intense commercial uses and larger structures should be located near the street edge with less intensive uses and smaller structures farther from the street to transition to adjacent designations. Particular nodes or intersections may b...
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