Title
Briefing on Scope for the Downtown Strategy
Recommended Action
City Manager Recommendation:
1. Receive briefing from staff on LUEC's recommended scope for the Downtown Strategy (attachments 1-6) and ask any questions.
2. Move to make any immediate changes to the scope (the scope will be considered preliminary until adopted by Council in May)
3. Move to direct staff to proceed with an open house at the end of April. Provide any guidance for this event, including Council's preferred level of involvement in this event.
Recommended Action
Land Use & Environment Committee Recommendation:
LUEC's recommended scope for the Downtown Strategy is provided in attachments 1-6.
LUEC also recommends the City set aside the excerpts from the old Comprehensive Plan (also referred to as "The [Proposed] Downtown Plan' in attachment 11) while the downtown strategy is being developed, and refer to these excerpts but do no readopt them at this time.
Report
Issue:
Overview of the Land Use & Environment Committee's (LUEC's) recommended scope for the Downtown Strategy (attachments 1-6) and next steps
Staff Contact:
Amy Buckler, Senior Planner, Community Planning and Development (CP&D), 360.570.5847, abuckler@ci.olympia.wa.us
Presenter(s):
Amy Buckler
Leonard Bauer, Deputy Director, CP&D
Keith Stahley, Director, CP&D
Background and Analysis:
The Comprehensive Plan directs the City to have a 'plan for downtown. Now referred to as The Downtown Strategy, this effort is of considerable interest to the community. Two distinct elements of work are 1) Scoping, and 2) Strategy Development.
WHAT IS THE DOWNTOWN STRATEGY?
The purpose and fundamental concept for the strategy is shown in Attachment 1
SCOPING
The Council's Land Use & Environment Committee (LUEC) was tasked with developing a recommended scope for the downtown strategy. Attachments 1-6 describe LUEC's recommendation.
Scoping for the downtown strategy will continue through ...
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