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City Council Goal #3
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GOAL #3: REVITALIZATION OF STRATEGIC LOCATIONS
OBJECTIVES:
• Increase / expand retail businesses and sales tax revenues
• Work in partnership with neighborhoods, businesses, community organizations, institutions
• Increase private sector investment
• Create a vibrant Downtown – a destination for residents and the region
• Develop Columbia Park
• Enhance College Hill District
ACTION STEPS:
| ACTION STEP 1: Continue to seek funding for 11th Street: street, sidewalk and retaining wall improvements - 4 votes | |
| Responsible Department: Public Works | |
| Status:
Study Session scheduled for April 2021 |
| ACTION STEP 2: Continue work to utilize 11th Street Watch Tower for temporary and/or permanent purposes - 3 Votes | |
| Responsible Department: CED, Parks | |
| Status:
Study Session Scheduled for April 2021 |
| ACTION STEP 3: Execute Downtown strategies and Downtown Plan (Staff will come back with a timeline) - 7 Votes • Establish SSA/BID/BDD. Create independent Board of Directors from area stakeholders to enter into service agreement with the City to administer the SSA/BID/BDD.
• Use part of remaining TIF dollars to hire consultant/The Chamber to guide Board of Directors through the process of creating SSA/BID/BDD.
• Use City funds to hire Downtown Partnership Executive Director to do the work of newly established entity
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| Responsible Department: Mayor, City Manager, CED | |
| Status:
• Downtown Task Force established • Contract with Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce to provide downtown management signed in January 2021.
• Study session to be scheduled after downtown manager is hired. |
| ACTION STEP 4: Establish “mapping out” repeat offenders as a condition of court sentencing (as identified in DARI’s West Palm Beach report) - 3 Votes | |
| Responsible Department: Downtown Manager and Steering Committee | |
| Status: Study session to be scheduled after the downtown manager is hired |
| ACTION STEP 5: College Hill Redevelopment / Business Development and 30th Street and 14th Avenue - 5 Votes | |
| Responsible Department: CED, DARI | |
| Status:
• College Hill Redevelopment/Business Development expected to reconvene in March 2021. • Study session update scheduled for June 2021. |
| ACTION STEP 6: 11th Street Business Development Corridor - 3 Votes | |
| Responsible Department: CED, DARI, Public Works | |
| Status:
• NPC 11 expected to reconvene in March 2021. • Study session update scheduled for June 2021. |
| ACTION STEP 7: Enforce / Create Rental Ordinances.
Ordinances regarding rental property and landlords need to be enacted and enforced. If a landlord doesn’t maintain the property, then they should be fined. We need to work with the landlords to monitor rental rates so that they are not excessive. Absentee landlords should not be permitted. If we cannot contact you, then you should not be permitted to rent - 2 Votes
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| Responsible Department: CED | |
| Status:
• Delayed due to staff vacancies. • Annual rental inspections began in January 2021
• Study session on updated rental ordinance scheduled for September 2021. |