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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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