Downtown Strategic Plan Community Engagement Session changes to a new date

The date for the next large-scale community engagement meeting with regard to the new strategy plan of the city was pushed back per day.

Bonnie Boatwright, project manager for the plan in downtown Columbus 2030, said that the engagement meeting originally planned for April 16 will now take place on April 17 to 7 p.m. in the commons. A similar input meeting took place in January.

The Urban Planning and Design company Sasaki takes the lead in the development of the plan and works with the company SB Friedman and storyboard. The city center of Columbus 2030 is expected to be completed by June.

The plan in the city center is expected to determine a vision that can be implemented within a timeline of five to ten years, which is informed by the community's feedback. It will look for ways to revitalize and activate the city center of the city and at the same time align a changed climate in the area after pandemic.

Community members are also encouraged to give their contributions through a survey that will be open until March 9.

To give thoughts, the survey can easily find columbus.in.gov and then the big survey banner in the middle of the page or by clicking here. Boatwright said from Thursday that the city received 2,400 surveys.

During a meeting of the redevelopment commission in February, Heather Pope, director of the renovation, said that a market studies are currently being created, in which some important recurring topics from the input process and “some initial major steps are listed as the result of these surveys”.

The city center of Columbus 2030 will have a closer focus as 2018 Plan Columbus Downtown Plan, which led to a certain implementation, but due to the changing dynamics caused by the Covid 19 pandemic was largely stressed according to the renovation.

Although there is a smaller footprint, the plan will contain comparatively more available buildings and rooms for the exam. In the city center of Columbus 2030, information from other recent urban efforts is recorded, including the new apartment study and the ongoing redesign of the city's inner city entrance place.

The main goal is to identify the best use of more than 20 individual plots, which, according to a copy of an application for proposals for the plan, have been identified as critically identified by the Columbus Commission such as the former Sears building, the current project areas, including the river bront and downtown entrance places.

This and further information can be found in the online house for the plan in downtown Columbus2030.com. The residents are asked to register their e -mails on the website in such a way that they are up to date.

The Columbus session commission on October 21 approved the financing of no more than 464,820 US dollars for their work.

The updated strategy plan in the city center is to answer the following questions:

• How do we build a city center where people want to be?
• How do we maximize the use of the rooms and places in the city center?
• What gaps do we have in the city center and how do we address these gaps?