Label
Zoning & Planning Committee
Title
Approving and adopting the M-10-20 Garfield Neighborhood Plan as an amendment to the Toledo 20/20 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Toledo, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
This request is for the review of the 2020 Garfield Neighborhood Plan, prepared by the Toledo Design Center in conjunction with the East Toledo Family Center and One Voice for East Toledo. The Core Planning Team started the planning process in July of 2020 with data gathering and monthly meetings. The normal level of person to person outreach was restricted due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. As a result, stakeholder and Core Planning Team meetings in 2020 were conducted primarily over Zoom. Volunteers canvased the neighborhood by flyering for online forums to ask residents questions concerning quality of life and the future of their neighborhood. The Toledo Design Center design professionals and interns engaged in detailed visioning, including extensive meetings with stakeholders identifying five targeted zones, each requiring different actions to improve the quality of life within the Garfield Neighborhood. Within each of these targeted zones, there are six actionable elements reflected into each recommendation: objectives, potential partners, and strategies.
The planning area of the Garfield Neighborhood Plan encompasses 439.2 acres bounded by Euclid Avenue to the west, the Maumee River to the north with I-280 and the Glass City Metropark, Tribute Park and Ravine Park II to the east, then back to Starr Avenue, E Broadway Street and S Ravine Parkway Drive for the southerly border. Front Street runs along the northern edge of the residential district in the study area, and the Main Street Starr Avenue Corridor UNO bounds the business district to the western and southern edges. Both the Marina District and Maumee Riverfront Districts overlap with the land between Front Street and the Maumee River from Main St...
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