I warned y’all in my December 10 blog post, A lunch portends changes for LoGro. It’s now happening. I’ve got a contract with the City of Northfield, wearing my Wigley and Associates consulting hat, to create and manage the online platform for a City project: Developing a parking management plan for downtown.
That’s a link to the new blogsite for the project where all the activity will occur (not here on LoGro, which is why I’ve got comments turned off for this blog post.)
I’ll be teaming up with Ross Currier, Executive Director of the Northfield Downtown Development Corporation (NDDC).
I’m pretty excited about doing this, actually. I hope you Northfielders who follow things here on LoGro will participate there, not only to help create a downtown parking management plan but to help me and the City get better at managing public projects which need a significant amount of genuine citizen engagement.
See you over there!
I’ve got a new blog post up:
Help design the downtown parking online straw poll
Five new blog posts:
* Wider sidewalks vs. a parking crunch: St. Paul’s Lowertown may have lessons for Northfield January 25, 2013
* Project for Public Spaces has ideas about parking management January 24, 2013
* Planning for stakeholder input on downtown parking management January 24, 2013
* Northfield News article on parking management January 16, 2013
* New FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page now up January 13, 2013
I’ve got a parking straw poll up. And if you use your bike to commute downtown, come to next week’s meeting at GBM. Details in these blog posts.
* Bicycle commuters to meet, offer input January 30, 2013
* Building owners’ meeting, Jan. 28 at the Rueb January 30, 2013
* Take the Northfield downtown parking straw poll January 28, 2013
* Creating public awareness of the downtown parking management project January 27, 2013
I plan to end the downtown parking straw poll tonight at midnight. So if you’ve not yet taken it, now’s the time:
http://northfielddowntownparking.org/2013/01/28/take-the-northfield-downtown-parking-straw-poll/
I’ll then blog the results, along with the submitted comments. We’ll then refer to it as needed when we started the focused blog discussion next week.
Here are links to the most recent blog posts:
* Pedestrian group meets to discuss parking issues at Feb. 14 meeting at the HideAway
* Pedestrians to meet, offer input on downtown parking. What’s a walking shed?
* Bicycle commuters discuss parking issues at Feb. 6 meeting at GBM< * New domain name and website: NorthfieldDowntownParking.org
* Bicycle commuters to meet, offer input
For the next week (and maybe longer), we’ve got three focused blog discussion threads active on the parking management plan for downtown site.
Although each one addresses the concerns of the particular stakeholder group, the discussions are open to all:
* Blog discussion: parking issues relevant to downtown building owners
* Blog discussion: parking issues relevant to bicyclists
* Blog discussion: parking issues relevant to pedestrians
Chime in!
Do you live downtown? Do you live near downtown? Then you’re invited to a meeting to discuss parking issues, Mar. 28, 8 pm at the library. Details here.
In yesterday’s Northfield News, reporter Kaitlyn Walsh (@NFNKaitlyn) has an article titled Downtown Northfield parking conversation nears its end.
You can comment on my Downtown Parking blog post about the article here.
The Draft Report on the Downtown Parking Conversation is now up. blog comment thread now open thru May 3.
See the blog post with the Downtown parking management report, recommendations and documents for June 18 Council meeting.
Blog post update: July 31 parking management planning meeting at City Hall