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Zoning & Planning Committee
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Approving and adopting the M-5-19 2019 UpTown District Master Plan Update as an amendment to the Toledo 20/20 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Toledo, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
This request is for the review of the 2019 UpTown District Plan Update, prepared by the Toledo Design Center in conjunction with the UpTown Association and Toledo City Plan Commission staff. The Core Planning Team started reviewing the area in November of 2016, and in the spring of 2017 they held four (4) public forums to discuss how to proceed with the plan. The Toledo Design Center professionals and interns engaged in detailed visioning, including extensive meetings with the stakeholders that led to numerous possibilities for planning sustainable growth.
The planning area of the UpTown District Plan encompasses 250 acres bounded by
Collingwood Boulevard to the west, Woodruff Avenue to Franklin Avenue to the north with Jackson Street and 10th to the east, and back to Washington Street for the southerly border. Directly to the north of UpTown is the Old West End Historic District, to the east and south is the Downtown Overlay District and Warehouse District. The Monroe Street Corridor starts at 14th street and runs north to Collingwood Blvd and is encompassed in the UpTown Urban Neighborhood Overlay but is excluded from the district since it has an overlay.
In an effort to gather feedback from stakeholders and their organizations, the planning team conducted interviews, meet monthly with the UpTown Development Committee to discuss the progress of the new plan. Once the draft was finalized, there were two public meetings held within the UpTown District planning area. The meetings were held on March 7th and 13th with approximately 80 people in attendance.
The current Master Plan for UpTown was adopted in 2013 and since then several reinvestments have been made in the neighborhood to include...
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