1. Broadway shouldn’t look like Broadway.

“What types of businesses shouldn’t be on Broadway?” Top answers were chain stores/restaurants, strip malls and “more of the same.”

What do people want? 

Brian Heaton: Kinda tricky Our idea wasn’t to so much vet ideas, winners and losers. It was more of the concept of doing a representative sample of a lot of the things we’re working on. IDK if anything stood out in particular, just presented the general vision. 

The main takeaway, when comes to dev standards, we want to reconnect back to the presuburban era of Eureaks history, first half of 20th century, buildng height, setbacks as opposed to the 1960s suburbia model. 

“What are you doing that’s new? Well, not new!”

Commonplace and normal in 20s 30s. … Eureka was like 80 percent developed by the time WWII came around. We’re looking at 1880s to 1940s as “true Eureka” want to maintain, preserve. 

Broadway is its own unique creature, auto-centric. I was a little bit surprised people were in terested in taller buildings. It’s our biggest challenge. WE can get downtown and Old Town excellent walkability. I thought optimisitc that peple said we can make Broadway better too. Car-centric.

More street trees, better crosswalks. 

Frankly we’re a regional shopping hub, that’s the purpose Broadway serves. Draws people from half to hour away to shop. To do that auto-centric model works. 

Over the next year we’re planning to have GP adopted in fall. Sometimes soon after would like to have zoning code adopted, actual tools used to implement. Those processes are overlapping. It’ll be a whole new deal for us. 

One error on electronic message sign. 95 in favor of banning. The values were reversed. 20 against electronic billboards and one for.  

Some of the parking ones were interesting. Most comical: no one parks in their garage. 

Associated planner Brian Heaton. 

Another series: zoom all the way out, do pure land use from conceptual level. Land Use and You, modeled after puberty guides, like, ‘Your body’s changing.’ Like written for an 11-year-old. Colonial-era land use.