West Broadway Advisory Committee Final Report

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.,J Public Input WBAC FINAL REPORT From-late June to early September 2007,-the public engaged in materials, and attending both public input sessions. Over 130 ~ crafting, testing, and refi-Wing a diversity of recommendations for the individuals attended-the first public input session, and over 165 - development of West Broadway, during nine WBAC public meetings, attended the second, -both times working in small "table groups" two public workshops, a community art walk, and through extensive to shape the direction and content of the recommendations. The verbal and written communications between citizens and individual `report out'-from each group at the end of each workshop provided WBAC members, City staff, and elected officials. Citizens contributed the WBAC an extensive reading of the community's response to the in three meaningful ways:. WBAC's ideas, the depth and breath of differences, and the potential for common ground and specific areas of agreement. Proposing Members of the public suggested or proposed both general and The public's verbal, written, and graphic information provided at the specific. ideas, concepts, strategies, concerns, and issues for each beginning of each of the nine WBAC public meetings; yielded from of the five categories -the preferred mix of uses, vehicle parking the two workshops, the community walk, and culled from phone .options, public open space types, and .design elements, andcalls, emails and letters comprises an enormous public record that transition recommendations for existing businesses impacted in has been assembled into a. notebook available at the City. ' the development. For example, citizens suggested a-pharmacy and hardware store among other desired uses in the redevelopment area, and targeted specific locations for a hotel and restaurants. Several citizens presented the committee with actual designs for portions of the site including two ideas for new parks across from the Library. a Responding. _ I Community members reviewed, evaluated, and responded in ~l~n ~ s word, through e-mails, and writing to each other s suggestions and ~ ~ proposals, and to the V(/BAC's own recommendations, especially during the two public workshops. In fact, the WBAC received over ~ ~ ''r. ~ ' ~ ~ 130 written evaluations with extensive commentary at the end of , -ate Workshop Two -pages and pages of what citizens preferred, which ~ ~ , ~ ? ~ ideas they didn'tiike, and what their concerns were. _ Engaging Interested community members actively engaged in the WBAC 5 ' " .•ti process by participating, entering into dialogues, producing relevant WBAC Public Workshop, August 4, 2007 Puhli~ Ini-,ut ~ 15