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• Utilize green stream corridor as true amenity • Implement the Village Center Stormwater Mitigation Strategy • Implement a green streets approach • Pursue partnerships for environmental research center • Connect trails system to city-wide and regional trails • Pursue a greenspace levy • Coordinate open space needs for schools with goals for Village open space
• Successful public amenities are created • Stream corridor is preserved • Educational opportunities are enhanced • Long-term open space protection is achieved • Stormwater quantity and quality is managed sustainably on a regional basis
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• Evaluate potential return on public investment strategies • Require high quality buildings and site design that matches the surrounding character • Streamline regulatory impediments to new development (Formbased code). • Concentrate density both in and within the Village Center • Consider development incentives • Realize the value of downtown open space as a development catalyst
• Increased development while maintaining quality urban form • Increased mix of uses • Increased revenue for the city with limited increase in cost of services. • Increased number of employees and residents in the Village Center • Demonstrable results of public investment
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• Leverage the performing arts center programming crossopportunities throughout Village Center public spaces • Leverage performing arts center mission with new business development in Village Center • Provide gathering places and cultural amenities including ‘third places” and daily use public areas • Integrate art directly into the fabric of the Village Center • Establish an Arts Commission
• Village Center becomes a cultural events destination • Reputation as an arts community is established • Downtown vibrancy increases as a result of destination users • Businesses capitalize on cultural destination users
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• Collaborate with the schools in solving the athletic facilities/ practice fields space issue • Enhance the ability to host recreational events in the Village core • Provide health/fitness center in the Village Center • Connect trails system to city-wide and regional trails system
• Village Center becomes a health and wellness event destination • Reputation as a health and wellness community is established • Businesses capitalize on health and wellness destination users
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• Provide environmental awareness signage in Village core • Pursue partnerships for environmental research center
• Extended Learning Campus collaboration throughout Village core • Heightened public awareness and understanding of Village planning and green efforts