Agenda Date: 04/25/2017
Subject:
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Community engagement - Downtown & Parking
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Presented By:
Aaron Heumann, Traffic Engineer, Ryan Thompson, Mediation Program Coordinator, Mark Barons, Neighborhood Resources Manager, and Jocelyn Mills, Community Development Director
BACKGROUND
The study session on March 21, 2017 was postponed on community engagement, and is back on the agenda for April 25. Staff intends to discuss with city council a new approach for citizen engagement. This approach is modeled after Hans Bleiker's Systematic Development of Informed Consent and Appreciative Inquiry, both effective principles in community engagement.
Generally, these principles are designed to solicit input from the community first to identify priorities/issues. The approach is being termed "Littleton Listens" with the intent of "Inclusive Community Dialogue;" the first topic is downtown parking.
The historic downtown area is currently experiencing significant changes and continues to be a focal point both of the Littleton community and visitors to our city. Many of those changes include:
* New restaurants, such as the Viewhouse and The Alley;
* Mixed use developments are being planned and constructed in and adjacent to the downtown area, such as The Grove and Littleton Mixed Use (formerly the Valley Feed store);
* Previous single-family homes are being redeveloped for more dense residential dwellings, such as the multiplexes along Syracuse Street and the Littleton Crossing development.
* Staff has been recently contacted with requests in the downtown for expanding private parking lots, adding more public parking, allowing for valet parking along Main Street, providing employee parking, identifying limited timed parking for high-turnover businesses, accommodating ADA stalls adjacent to specific businesses, blocking off underutilized driveways in order to increase on-street parking accommodations, and restriping for head-in angled parking on wider roadways to ...
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