Chapter 5: Future Land Use Plan - East-West Gateway Coordinating ...

Land Use Strategies
East West Gateway Council of Governments
• Invest in public resources, human and physical such as parks, roads, and public
amenities
• Encourage landscaping and beautification of common areas
• Encourage updating and modernization of older housing stock
• Encourage sustainable development planning and implementation
• Municipalities to develop long term development goals including finance strategies and
appropriation of available federal, state, and local funding for community revitalization
• Prepare master plans for revitalization areas including parameters for increased density
• Encourage public/private partnering
Recommended Categories of New Development within the Future
Land Use Plan
An implementation plan is recommended that clearly defines categories of new development,
phasing, and development parameters. The following list of development categories is an example
of possibilities within the revitalization area and for consideration when preparing the
implementation plan:
• Housing at the “wedge” and within the commercial revitalization area
— Market rate apartments
— Student housing
— Senior housing
— Small Commercial and Office
— Public Spaces
• Office facilities in the revitalization area and at the City Hall site
— Incubator office space
— Medical building
— Hotel/Inn
— Restaurants and Retail
— Post office
— Education administration building
— State/Federal office building (mixed use)
N A T U R A L B R I D G E R O A D G R E A T S T R E E T S P R O J E C T
FUTURE LAND USE PLAN
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