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Beautification Project Welcome Submitting Input Welcome, and thank you for coming to tonight’s open house! This meeting is intended to provide an opportunity for you to learn about the City of Moscow Beautification Project as well as an opportunity to provide your thoughts and ideas regarding the appearance of Moscow’s and commercial corridors, and the locations you think should be considered for potential improvement. Please submit input in the following ways: 1. Take a packet of stickers and place them on the boards as follows: • Green stickers—indicate areas you like • Yellow stickers—indicate areas you think need improvements • Purple stickers—indicate what you think are the highest priority areas for making improvements 2. Fill out a comment card and place it in the box • If you have specific suggestions for improvements, please tell us on a comment card Areas/things you LIKE Areas you think need IMPROVEMENT Areas of HIGHEST PRIORITY Tonight’s meeting is an open house format, so we invite you to review the display stations at your leisure. The stations are numbered in the suggested viewing order, and City staff and project Steering Committee members are available to answer questions. Station 2 begins with a description of the purpose of the project, project goals, intended outcomes, and the specific areas under review. Stations 3 through 6 represent the four corridors being studied. We’d like to collect your input regarding areas you would like to see considered for aesthetic improvements. Thank You for Attending Tonight’s Meeting! How to Provide Your Input 1 Beautification Project South Corridor — City Limits to hwy 8 5 Sample Board with Comments ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project Project Overview North East South West Project Scope Project Steering Committee Project Outcomes On April 2, 2012, the Moscow City Council Adopted the Council’s goals for the 2013 fiscal year which included a proposal to, “Develop improvement plans for the beautification of public right-of-way at city entrances by 2014.” This goal was further refined by the City Council to consider the City not only as discrete locations, but rather as continuous corridors beginning at the City and continuing to the City’s downtown area. The aesthetic quality of any road corridor is comprised of many elements including the condition of the roadway, roadway edge, public and private landscaping, public and private signage, and adjacent private development. The Beautification Project is intended to examine the aesthetic condition of Moscow’s principal arterial corridors and identify improvement opportunities that could positively impact the community’s appearance and character. This project is being guided by a nine-member Steering Committee with representation from a variety of community stakeholder groups including corridor business and property owners, Moscow City Council, Moscow Chamber of Commerce, University of Idaho, Idaho Department of Transportation, Latah County and the City’s Planning and Arts Commissions. It is anticipated that the final outcome of this project will include identification of actions the City could take to improve the appearance of City This includes both the examination of improvements that may occur within the public rights-of- way, such as landscaping and roadway enhancements, as well as potential amendments to private development standards for the City Council’s consideration. The final project report will also include the identification of priority projects as identified by the community and the Steering Committee, including concept designs and cost estimates. Project Schedule Project Start August 20, 2013 September 18, 2013 Sept.-Oct. 2013 Late October, 2013 November 2013 December 2013 January 2014 Public Open House Identification of Improvement Locations City Council Project Report Concept Design/ Cost Estimation Public Open House #2 Final City Council Report City Beautification Project Steering Committee Walter Steed, Moscow City Council, Chair Melanie Zimmer, University Inn, Vice Chair Michelle Fuson, Latah County Ken Helm, Idaho Transportation Department Josh Larson, Moscow Chamber of Commerce Iris Mayes, Moscow Arts Commission Jim Miller, Primeland Cooperative/PAWS Ray Pankopf, University of Idaho Nels Reese, Planning and Zoning Commission 2 ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project North Corridor - City Limits to Street 3 ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project East Corridor — City Limits to hwy 95 4 ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project South Corridor — City Limits to hwy 8 5 ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project West Corridor — City Limits to West Third/Lieuallen Street 6 ---PAGE BREAK--- Beautification Project 7 Example Streetscape Treatments