Label
Zoning & Planning Committee
Title
Approving and adopting the M-14-19 Vistula Neighborhood Master 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 Vistula Neighborhood Master Plan, prepared by the Toledo Design Collective in conjunction with the Historic Vistula Foundation. The Core Planning Team started the planning process in 2019 with data gathering and monthly meetings. In June of 2019, volunteers canvased the neighborhood and asked residents questions concerning quality of life and the future of the neighborhood. The Toledo Design Collective professionals and interns engaged in detailed visioning, including extensive meetings with stakeholders that led to the conclusion that the neighborhood needed stabilization and rehabilitation without gentrification.
The planning area of the Vistula Neighborhood Master Plan is bounded by Cherry Street to the south, the Maumee River to the east, I-280 to the north, and the Greenbelt Parkway to the west. The Vistula Neighborhood has been called "Toledo's oldest neighborhood" with the village being founded in 1832 and hosting some of Toledo's oldest surviving buildings. Summit Street and Lagrange Street are primary corridors through the neighborhood.
The Vistula Neighborhood Master Plan details the neighborhood's rich history, and emphasizes why it is important to stabilize and preserve the neighborhood. Vistula is a unique historic neighborhood, offering a variety of commercial and industrial uses as well as single and multi-family housing in a broad variety of size and architectural significance within a small neighborhood scale. Vistula benefits from a centralized location close to downtown, quality historic building stock, and access to the Maumee River as well as bikeways.
Portions of the Vistula Neighborhood have been included in neighborhood p...
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