greater downtown dayton plan: recommendations overview

8/14/2019 Greater Downtown Dayton Plan: Recommendations Overview

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Goals

• Leverage

and

strengthen

established

and

emerging

arts,

entertainment, cultural and historic assets to create a unique

entertainment destination and experience to attract new audiences.

• Position Greater Downtown as the premier arts, entertainment,

cultural and historic destination.

• Provide the necessary resources for Greater Downtown’s arts,

entertainment, cultural and historic assets to be successful economic

development catalysts.

•

Promote

the

health,

stability

and

growth

of

local

organizations,

artists and businesses.

• Increase the depth and breadth of public programming.



Key Recommendations

• Create

a network

that

allows

all

arts,

entertainment,

cultural

and historic assets to function as a comprehensive district.

• Develop an urban design strategy to establish a walkable

downtown that creates a unique sense of place and connects

existing and emerging assets.

• Coordinate more effective cross‐promotions and collective

public relations efforts, with a focus on attracting new audiences

to and engaging them in Greater Downtown’s arts, entertainment

and cultural life.

• Encourage the development of and nurture new and emerging

venues, businesses and events.

• Encourage more activity around streets and other public spaces.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT



Goals

• Work aggressively to retain businesses.

• Aggressively recruit businesses from targeted

industries.

• Right‐size the commercial real estate product.

• Align existing workforce with current and

future

needs

of

businesses.

• Create an environment known as a center for

creativity.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT



Key Recommendations

• Develop

a comprehensive

high

‐speed

broadband

network.

• Retain businesses and support business growth.

• Evaluate potential development sites, and implement a

strategy to reuse vacant and underused buildings.

• Establish and promote Dayton as Ohio’s Aerospace

Technology Hub.

• Support the growth and development of TechTown.

• Leverage target industry macro and micro clustering

opportunities.

• Incubate new businesses.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT



Goals

• Attract

businesses

&

residents

to

Greater

Downtown.

• Implement green projects that improve environmental

stewardship, public health and quality of life.

• Through

green

practices,

become

a sustainable

city.

• Become an economically sustainable, thriving regional hub.

• Reach a high level of environmental health for all citizens.

• Achieve

social

justice

for

all

citizens.

• Reduce Greater Downtown’s carbon footprint.

GREEN & SUSTAINABLE



Key Recommendations

• Nationally rank Dayton’s “greenness;” use that and

other data to create a Sustainability Action Plan.

• Develop and nurture green economic development.

• Support the Dayton Regional Green Task Force’s Green

Business Certification Program.

• Support DP&L’s Miami Valley Smart Energy Project.

• Investigate the feasibility of establishing a City of

Dayton geothermal well field utility.

• Revise public policy to encourage green and

sustainable development.

• Develop, promote and support sustainable

transportation

initiatives.

• Promote urban re‐forestation and initiatives that

promote recycling and composting.

GREEN & SUSTAINABLE



Goals

• Improve and expand neighborhoods.

• Create

vibrant,

socioeconomically

diverse

residential areas.

• Offer varied price points and a wide range of

products.

• Provide amenities that residents expect.

HOUSING



Key Recommendations

• Rank potential housing sites to better understand

which projects

are

most

likely

to

succeed.

• Find creative ways to complete stalled projects.

• Create and finance a pre‐development fund and an

equity fund.

• Develop a site assembly and land banking strategy.

• Begin speculative pre‐development work on

housing sites

with

the

most

potential.

• Create a list of leading urban housing developers.

• Develop cost estimates and development strategies

for potential

reuse

projects.

• Expand amenity base.

HOUSING



Goals

• Create a beautiful core vibrant with activity.

• Establish an environment in which

pedestrians, cyclists and boaters of all

demographics use inviting corridors.

• Create streets and waterways that connect

people where they live, work and play.

RIVER CORRIDOR & ACTIVE LIFESTYLES



Key Recommendations

• Develop

a comprehensive

cycling

program.

• Make the rivers navigable, accessible and

enjoyable.

•

Create

outdoor

urban

recreation

destinations.

• Create urban nodes, pedestrian streets and

pocket parks that create a people‐oriented

environment.

• Establish attractive, people‐centered

corridors, linkages and gateways.

RIVER CORRIDOR & ACTIVE LIFESTYLES



Goals

• Change

the

function

of

the

streets

from

being

primarily

for

cars

to

being equally for cars, bicycles, pedestrians & public transportation.

• Make Greater Downtown’s streets an amenity.

• Provide mobility for all citizens through an efficient,

interconnected network.

• Reduce reliance on single‐occupant vehicle travel.

• Improve connectivity among destinations, districts and

neighborhoods.

• Support seamless, pleasant and safe travel experiences.

• Balance the needs of all user groups, and reinforce them through

development priorities and streetscape treatments.

TRANSPORTATION



Key Recommendations

• Develop and adopt a tailor‐made Complete Streets policy .

• Develop a place‐based Transportation Plan.

• Develop

and

design

a wayfinding system.

• Establish a public/private parking alliance.

• Identify potential new development that can create new or

transform existing public ways.

• Continue with phase two of establishing an urban streetcar

service.

• Support the implementation of the 3CD Intercity Rail Plan, and

develop site

plans

for

a potential

rail

station.

• Promote downtown parking options and transportation

alternatives.

• Improve the appearance of key gateways and corridors.

• Create a bicycle‐ and pedestrian‐friendly zone.

• Provide fixed‐route bus services connecting Greater

Downtown with all points in the Dayton region.

TRANSPORTATION

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