3rd vote for no speed bumps. I forget the website now that talks about ways of slowing traffic, but speed bumps were not a good solution, IIRC. I think it was probably discussed here two years ago and resident Doug Pollock was involved in the discussion...
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Posted Thursday Sep 3, 2009 11:15 #
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Might be a bit early to worry about water features and speed bumps. As Eric pointed out, this has a long, long way to go yet. It's just nice--from my perspective--to see some suggestions to improve our CBD that seem workable.
Posted Thursday Sep 3, 2009 11:33 # -
Here's a discussion from a couple years ago regarding 'walkable streets':
http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/walkable-streets-urban-planning
Of course it's early. We're just tossing things out there.
Posted Thursday Sep 3, 2009 12:52 # -
Another premature vote here against speed bumps. I can't stand speed bumps.
Posted Thursday Sep 3, 2009 13:22 # -
I went to EDC last night and they voted unanimously to recommend that Preservation and Planning look at it. General consensus was that it would be helpful for summer business at Grumpy's and Chew Chew and might be applicable elsewhere. Perhaps some reluctance to eliminate all the spaces in one place. Interestingly there were three Trustees and Pres. Gorman in attendance, plus the VM. That's a lot better than it used to be - I can remember meetings when just Nick and I were in attendance.
Posted Friday Sep 4, 2009 09:38 # -
This might just be the catalist needed to start building consensus around positive development in the CBD. A couple of things seem important, though:
- While organic planning and implementation can work (i.e. many medieval towns, hill towns, which were built without a master plan and developed one at a time, very organically), the formulation of a vision and master plan for the CBD would be the equivalent of a yardstick with with to evaluate everything from parking, walkability, density, etc. I thought the last Board's workshops that happened as part of the TIF debate were very useful, and the current Board should build upon the work done back then and host similar events this fall.
- With regard to money, which appears to have been the achilles heel in most prior attempts to improve the CBD, we should look into public-private partnership financing opportunities. Since the proposed plan is very specific to one or a few business owners but would also benefit the broad public, the cost to plan and implement could maybe be split between the Village and the business owners.
Posted Friday Sep 4, 2009 10:35 #
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