Central Entrance - City of Duluth

6.0 Districting Strategy
6.2.1 IMPLICATIONS OF M.H. CORRIDOR PLAN 1979
With regard to the implementation of the Miller Hill Corridor Plan, the
document’s concluding sentence states. “As this Plan continues to
achieve results, new horizons and new possibilities for the future of the
Miller Hill Corridor Area will be opened up.”
Fast forward 30 years to 2009 and it becomes clear that many of the
issues that the Miller Hill Corridor Plan was created to deal with are
still prevalent today as are many of the recommendations. In
particular, the issue of where and how commercial development
should be located and integrated remains a core focus. The
difference between 1979 and 2009 is that this study incorporates a
layer of market‐driven demand into the strategy, which is a critical
component for allocating and locating land uses along the Corridor.
The recommendations for concentration of commercial development
around the Miller Hill Mall south of Miller Trunk Hwy and infilling of
land are as valid today as they were 30 years ago.
Central Entrance continues to face the same challenges, where
congestion, curb cuts, lack of sidewalks and safety are seen as major
obstacles for a cohesive neighborhood development. The Miller Hill
Corridor Plan originally viewed Central Entrance as a neighborhood
scale, but haphazard development led Central Entrance down a path
of highway strip commercial, with no connectivity to the surrounding
residential community.
Wetland sensitivity became an important social issue in the original
Miller Hill Corridor Plan and while developments such as Kohl’s were
approved, this sensitivity should be re‐iterated as it relates to the
impacts of commercial development on surrounding land uses,
residential or environmental.
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