City Council Meeting Date: October 12, 2021
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: David Bennett, Public Works Director/City Engineer
Mitzi Baker, Community Development Director
Title
Update and discussion on Bridge Square Improvements in context of the Riverfront Enhancement Action Plan.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council discusses the draft Bridge Square Improvement in context with the Riverfront Enhancement Action Plan.
Summary Report:
In 2014 the City created a Vision Plan for Bridge Square. As part of that vision plan, four alternatives were created for Bridge Square. Since the plan completion, no improvements have been made to Bridge Square.
Fast forward to 2018, as part of the City Strategic plan, the City created a Riverfront Enhancement Action Plan that was adopted in 2020. One of the early initiates in the plan is to related to Enhancing and Activating Riverfront Parks. Bridge Square is an early initiative, so the City needs to take those four alternatives, understand what we have learned/changed recently for Bridge Square and come up with a final concept, cost, and implementation plan.
The City has hired the team of Bruce Jacobson, Bob Close, and Julie Aldrich to assist in this process. Their team has reviewed the 2014 Bridge Square Alternative along with the input/comments within the plan, met with City staff and developed a draft concept pulling features from the different alternative.
For Tuesday's worksession (Task 5 on slide 11 of the presentation), we would request initial feedback from this revised concept from Council before this is goes out for public input. Questions, comments, ideas on additions or revisions related to this version or input on other alternate options. The public input process (Task 6 on slide 11 of the presentation) would include context of the Riverfront Enhancement Action Plan, the Future Vision for Bridge Study (2014), and this current concept for input.
After public...
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