Strategic Plan Scramble! Last Minute Highlights Before Approval Tonight!
Decatur Metro | March 21, 2011OK, so I just glanced over Decatur’s 2010 Strategic Plan one last time and realized some of the most interesting “tasks” in the whole document are under the three goals that I never posted. Read them in full for yourself HERE, or you can read my filtered version below. It’s YOUR internet, MAN!
Without further ado, here are the abbreviated DM highlights of “Principle D: Support a Safe, Healthy, Lifelong Community”.
Under Goal 14: Enhance mobility options within and to Decatur
Task 14A: Implement the recommendations of the Community Transportation Plan.
Task 14D: Establish a speed limit of 30 miles per hour on all city streets to increase safety and make walking and biking more desirable.
Task 14H: Update parking standards to allow innovative parking strategies, such as shared or unbundled parking.
Task 14I: Promote more efficient use of parking with electronic signs, shared use of existing lots and decks, consolidated parking meters, more strict enforcement, higher parking fines, and similar techniques.
Under Goal 15: Expand the variety of high quality housing options to meet the needs of a diverse community
Task 15B: Adopt ordinance changes that allow smaller homes and support accessory dwellings to support affordable housing options in single family neighborhoods. Educate the public about their characteristics and benefits.
Task 15E: Support a wholistic understanding of affordability that looks beyond simple rent or sale price.
And finally under Goal 16: Provide programs and services that support and enhance a safe, healthy, and active lifestyle
Task 16A: Expand the off-street path system throughout the community, especially by using vacant or unbuildable lots, utility corridors, or stream corridors to create mid-block passages.
Task 16F: Improve Dearborn Park.