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MEETING DATE: July 8, 2010
Council Agenda Item %
AGENDA ITEM: EDA Reports — Streetscape /Landscape Plan
SUBMITTED BY: Cynthia Smith - Strack, MDG
BOARD /COMMISSION /COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION:
PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The EDA /staff continues implementing its goal to promote downtown
revitalization. In late 2009 the EDA commissioned a land - streetscape plan to be completed by Clarissa
Cooper and Randy Schmitz from Scenic Specialties. Goals of the planning exercise are to tie the
following areas together with meaningful visual linkages: Wobegon Trail Center, College Avenue,
Minnesota Street, and Minnesota Street to the west toward new CSAH 2 area. The concepts and
illustrations included in the plan are intended to spur discussion and give potential donors and land
owners an idea of what 'could be'.
The outcomes are expected to give pedestrians /bicyclists visual 'cues' as to how to get to downtown, to
soften hardscapes at specific intersections (i.e. CSAH 75 /College Avenue, Minnesota St /College Avenue),
to promote lingering in downtown, and to use as a tool to induce private investment and initiate
fundraising related to street /landscape plan for Downtown.
Scenic Specialties have developed "themes" to tie the design work together as well as targeting areas
where design work could be done to accomplish expected project outcomes. Schmitz and Cooper
presented conceptual ideas to the EDA at their February 24th meeting and final concepts at the EDA's
April 28th meeting.
The EDA invited private property owners to their June 23rd meeting to reveal concepts developed by
Scenic Specialties and to gauge reaction to said concepts. Following the discussion with property
owners the EDA agreed to submit the landscape /streetscape concepts to the City Council for the
purpose of providing information and soliciting comment.
Owners of private property included in the plan have expressed concern about raising the public's
expectations; as such individual references to property included in the study have been curtailed in the
presentations.
BUDGET /FISCAL IMPACT:
ATTACHMENTS:
Request for Council Action 7:1 -2
Concept Presentation 7:3 -13
REQUESTED COUNCIL ACTION: This is a discussion item only, soliciting feedback
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