The city will take public comment on its strategic plan for downtown at 5 p.m. Feb. 13 at City Hall, 16 S. 10th St. Noblesville officials got their first look at the plan Jan. 29. The plan commission is scheduled to vote on it Feb. 20 and the city council Feb. 27.How odd to hear that public comments will be taken before a governmental meeting. Here, we'd just say we got a public meeting right before the vote. Noblesville does it better.
They may also have better ideas about how to keep their downtown vital:
The plan includes turning parking lots and underutilized spaces into buildings with office, retail and restaurants on the ground floor and parking garages above. It includes facade improvements and making the White River the center of downtown with Old Town on the east side and New Town, a business district, on the west side. The plan seeks to convince private developers to invest in downtown, and that could be aided by public dollars.Notice restaurants, plural. I still think we have better anchors for revitalizing downtown. Those anchors being the Paramount and State Theaters. If we could just get the former to offer something of wide interest and get the other open!
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