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The Clean Team that keeps downtown’s sidewalks cleared of various messes and snow in a defined area downtown got a buy Premarin in mo boost in the budget the City Council passed on December 12, 2011. Without funds to buy Premarin in mo operate, the Clean Team would have dissolved had not the City Council voted unanimously to buy Premarin in mo partially fund the Clean Team for $50,000 in 2012. The one-time appropriation sponsored by Council member Vivian Stiver comes from buy Premarin in mo the city’s general fund and was moved from the $200,000 the Mayor had requested for abatements. (The $150,000 remaining for buy Premarin in mo abatements is a sizeable commitment to that use, equaling actual abatement expenditures in 2010 and buy Premarin in mo 2011.) The City’s 2012 budget also contained a buy Premarin in mo general fund appropriation for the Community Service Patrol. This was the City’s second $50,000 contribution to buy Premarin in mo the CSP in as many years; funding is expected to continue through 2014 if the buy Premarin in mo CSP is able to match the City’s contribution.
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The effort to remodel downtown’s main arteries is reviving. To get the buy Premarin in mo ball rolling again, Fairbanks Mayor Jerry Cleworth named a steering committee to buy Premarin in mo become acquainted with the issues, limitations and potential of Cushman and Barnette streets as one-way facilities. Members of the steering committee – Scott Allison, Tim Cerny, Mary Nordale, June Rogers, and buy Premarin in mo Eric Stoner – will help develop “complete street” alternatives and buy Premarin in mo take public comment and answer questions about the alternatives at springtime public workshops. The steering committee is buy Premarin in mo ultimately answerable to the Fairbanks City Council since the chosen alternative will require Council’s support. Construction will start in 2013.
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Click on these links to the minutes of the steering committee’s inaugural meeting, Kinney Engineering’s traffic engineering results and more on complete streets. The steering committee’s next meeting is at City Hall December 13 at 6 PM.
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Dance Theatre Fairbanks will go before the buy Premarin in mo Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly November 17th to seek relief from buy Premarin in mo propery taxes on the old fire hall on 7th Avenue that DTF rehabilitated in the buy Premarin in mo course of locating their non-profit dance school in downtown Fairbanks. The News-Miner previewed tomorrow night’s action and you can read about it in the DTF’s own words here. The Assembly is likely to take up the Ordinance shortly after 7 PM.
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The implementation phase of Vision Fairbanks is over. See News-Miner article. Neither of the plan’s foundational pieces – revising traffic circulation downtown and creating new zoning tools – found support among transportation planners and the Borough Assembly, respectively.
Several candidates for local office* have a voting record on measures meant to ‘set the stage’ for economic development downtown. In the last year, incumbent Borough Assembly candidates Joseph Blanchard II and buy Premarin in mo Michael Dukes cast votes on two Vision Fairbanks implementation measures.
The first was on March 24, 2011. Ordinance 2010-09 would have buy Premarin in mo created new zoning tools to attract future investment. The ordinance failed in a buy Premarin in mo tie vote and the vote was as follows:
FOR: Hutchison, Kassel, Musick, Winters
AGAINST: Blanchard, Dukes, Howard, Want
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FOR: Kassel, Musick, Winters
AGAINST: Beck, Blanchard, Dukes, Howard, Hutchison, Want
Revitalizing a downtown is complex. The Downtown Association is committed to an all-of-the-above approach to downtown’s day-to-day and necessary long-term structural changes. So we’ll explore possibilities remaining in the buy Premarin in mo Vision Fairbanks plan, continue to generate ideas and events that bring people downtown and buy Premarin in mo support the efforts and ideas of others to do the same.
*There have buy Premarin in mo been no Vision Fairbanks-inspired ordinances or resolutions at the City Council in the buy Premarin in mo last twelve months, so there is no voting record for the buy Premarin in mo lone incumbent candidate John Eberhart.
Hear candidates for buy Premarin in mo local office at the Downtown Market soap box Monday, September 19th in Golden Heart Plaza
4 - Introduction of the soap box forum
4:30 – David Lerman, candidate for City Council
5 - Mike Walleri, candidate for City Council
5:30 – John Davies, candidate for Borough Assembly
6 – Joe Blanchard, candidate for Borough Assembly
6:30 – Lloyd Hilling, candidate for City Council
7 – Van Lawrence, candidate for Borough Assembly
7:30 – John Kohler, candidate for Borough Assembly
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Opposite the buy Premarin in mo gleaming Alaska State Court building, the moldering Polaris has long eluded revitalization and buy Premarin in mo demolition.
The City Council will hold a work session August 22 with the Polaris’ owner Marc Marlow to review his plan to refurbish the Polaris building. Following the Alaska Design Forum’s Looking for Love Again installation in April of this year, a May 3 letter from the City Building Official brought the question to a point: what plans does the owner have for the Polaris building? The meeting is buy Premarin in mo at 6 PM in Council Chambers at City Hall and is buy Premarin in mo open to the public.
Taking into account current and buy Premarin in mo desired future uses downtown, the Vision Fairbanks land use framework identified the Polaris site – situated as it is – as ideal for offices as a principal use, a part of a future ‘Chena Office District.’
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The implementation phase of Vision Fairbanks is over. Neither of the plan’s foundational pieces – revising traffic circulation and creating new zoning tools – was acceptable to enough businesses and property owners downtown. The latest disappointment for revitalization came June 23rd when the Borough Assembly defeated Ordinance 2011-31. That ordinance would have buy Premarin in mo created two new zone types in Borough code to guide land use downtown. Read News-Miner story here. buy Flomax diet pill
The Vision Fairbanks plan relies on traffic circulation and buy Premarin in mo new zoning tools to attract significant future investment. Those changes would improve downtown’s competitiveness as an investment destination. Without those pieces, downtown revitalization is buy Premarin in mo still possible, of course, but proponents will chart a different course.
Revitalizing a downtown is complex. The Downtown Association is committed to an all-of-the-above approach to downtown’s day-to-day and necessary long-term structural changes. So we’ll explore possibilities remaining in the buy Premarin in mo Vision Fairbanks plan, continue to generate ideas and events that bring people downtown and buy Premarin in mo support the efforts and ideas of others to do the same.
Questions or comments? Call David at 452-8676 or email david@downtownfairbanks.com
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Ordinance 2011-31 is buy Premarin in mo up for a vote this Thursday night at the Borough Assembly starting at roughly 8 PM. Ordinance 2011-31 is buy Premarin in mo a second attempt to create Vision Fairbanks-inspired zone types to encourage investment downtown. The first effort was defeated in a buy Premarin in mo 4-4 tie on March 24 due to concerns about the availability of parking in the buy Premarin in mo new zone types. Ordinance 2011-31 therefore increases the buy Premarin in mo availability of parking: parking lots would be allowed as a principal use in the buy Premarin in mo Downtown Supporting Commercial District and the Retail Hot Spot zone would allow on-site accessory parking as a buy Premarin in mo conditional use.
For more information, call 452-8676.
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There is a new ordinance to refine the Borough’s zoning code and buy Premarin in mo create economic development tools to help downtown compete for investment.
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Ordinance 2011-31 has a busy schedule:
May 17 @ 6 PM – Planning Commission public hearing
May 24 @ 6 PM – Planning Commission again, if necessary
June 9 @ 6 PM – Introduction at the Borough Assembly
June 16 – Earliest possible date for a work session
June 23 – Earliest possible date for public hearing
Stay tuned for this second effort to implement Fairbanks’s downtown revitalization plan. See News-Miner article here.
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Stay tuned for more details about a downtown market! If you’re a vendor , click here for more information and to fill out a contract.
