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First Directions: Downtown Development Action Plan The Planning Process So Far
This brief report summarizes key strategies and high priority actions for downtown revitalization identified during the planning process for the St. Louis Downtown Redevelopment Action Plan. The purpose of this report is twofold: to inform the public and encourage debate on the study team's initial thoughts, proposals and strategies for downtown revitalization; and to establish a preliminary framework for the more detailed downtown revitalization plans to follow during the course of the study. The timing of the study, and the ways in which you can get involved are explained at the end of this report.
Work on the Downtown St. Louis Action Plan: Phase II began in early April 1998, and is a direct outgrowth of the Downtown St. Louis Development Action Plan: Phase I. The Phase I report, completed in December 1997, identified an overarching vision for the downtown. This vision emphasized:
The vision, principles and priorities identified during the Phase I study were based on a series of over twenty meetings scheduled during the fall of 1997, involving more than five hundred City and regional citizens, business owners, public officials and other stake-holders.
The primary goal for the downtown and waterfront plan process is to develop detailed physical design and implementation plans for the Downtown and its districts. When completed, this plan will identify a refined guiding vision directing the sense of place and design for the downtown; a development program and phasing strategy; a transportation and transit plan; a parking plan; and a pedestrian circulation plan.
This plan process is in its early stages. To date the consultant team has:
The "What If..." workshop was a day-long session involving some thirty-five participants representing Downtown Now, government and public agencies, educational institutions and the business community. The objectives of the workshop were:
This report represents the very early thoughts of the planning team for everyone's review. It does not provide conclusions or recommendations but rather an articulated sense of the way we see the planning process heading over the next months. These are our first directions.
Two matters central to any downtown regeneration are not dealt with in this document - requirements for funding, and the locus of responsibility for each initiative. On theses issues we will have much to say in later reports.
This report has three main sections: The Big Ideas are presented first, to indicate thinking about the major actions being considered for the downtown. An immediate Action Program is described next, listing the kind of initiatives that could be taken this year to improve the condition of the core of the city. That is followed by the Comprehensive Action Strategy, that lists all of the favored actions and concepts, organized by the major strategic thrusts of the plan.
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