​The Downtown Streetscape Plan was unanimously approved by the Urban Renewal Agency on April 22, 2019. This summer, we will begin surveying blocks that are identified for the first phase of streetscape implementation in the plan. Future projects for consideration are permanent mid-block landscape areas that would visually narrow the roadway to calm traffic and provide green landscape buffers between sidewalk users and traffic. A month long pilot project has been installed from May 4 through June 3 on the 300 block of Commercial Street and the 200 block of Liberty Street. Please take our survey and tell us what you think!

​Streetscape improvements were identified as one of the top urban renewal funding priorities within the Riverfront-Downtown Urban Renewal Area during a series of 12 focus group meetings in 2016. A community work group worked with the Urban Development, Public Works, and Community Development Departments to develop a scope of work for consulting efforts.