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June 21, 2021 — Meeting Transcript
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Following that, we conducted two visioning work sessions on April 17th and May 1st, 2020. So a little over a year ago. The first one with the Board of Aldermen and the second with the Planning Commission. Then we conducted a series of four work sessions with the steering committee, including a site walk on July 7th where we actually walked the district and talked about some of the implications onsite. And then we had a series of three joint work sessions between the Board of Aldermen and the Planning Commission which were open sessions. Those occurred on May 22nd, October 23rd and November 11th. So looking at the decision-making summary, during the first two visioning work sessions on April 17th and May 1st, and these were essentially the same sort of facilitated meeting, but with the two bodies, the Board of Aldermen and UAHL, the Planning Commission, we presented the existing conditions analysis and an analysis and 3D modeling of the existing overlay district regulations. And the key decisions that came out of those two work sessions were to combine the two existing overlay districts into a single new district and expand it to the east and to the south. There was a consensus that North Central Avenue should be redesigned to better function as downtown's primary dining and entertainment street, really in line with the entertainment overlay. In order to do that, there was support to remove two travel lanes and provide wider sidewalks.
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