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Comprehensive Plan

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Main Street Ideas Include Wider Sidewalks, Making One-Way Roads Two-Way

Public invited to add their two cents on area's future at 6 p.m. tonight, Stage Right Studio.

  When the Main Street Recommendations Workshop meets at 6 p.m. tonight, they'll review two big ideas suggested during their September session - widening sidewalks and switching some one-way streets to two-way. The meeting at Stage Right Studio, 68 South Main St., will also discuss altering zoning along Main Street, likely with an overlay district, which Jennifer Siciliano, city planner/deputy director of community planning said allows both less and more-restrictive modifications of local zoning. Right now, Main Street is zoned C1- a mixed use area allowing residences on the upper floors and commercial tenants on the ground floors, Siciliano said. From the city's appendix C - Zoning: "C-1 Urban Commercial District, primarily for the …

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