Downtown Master Plan

[orulz]

A draft of the downtown master plan is available for review on the Mountain Xpress web site.

It's far too dense of a document to sum up in a single post so I suggest you read it yourself.

It makes a number of suggestions which we have already heard about:

• Dividing downtown into 5 districts with different requirements for building heights, urban form, etc.

• Transition to an apparently more form-based zoning code for downtown

• Providing better for mobility other than the personal automobile to downtown (bike racks & lanes, shuttle buses, etc)

• Better management of public and private parking lots

• A revised development process that is less arbitrary and more transparent

• Update the downtown historic district on the national register