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47. Support programming for music, art and other events in the special places downtown. <br /> <br />48. Maintain views and access from downtown to nearby open space areas. Include signs and sidewalk <br /> improvements. <br /> <br />49. Create a civic design review board to assist in and approve the designs for all civic facilities, <br /> particularly in our downtown core. <br /> <br />50. Reinforce the continued use of the Park Blocks for the Saturday Market and Farmer's Market. <br /> <br />51. Install graphics for downtown information and directions at the Park Blocks. <br /> <br />52. Develop a funding strategy to daylight the Millrace from Ferry Lane to the Willamette River. <br /> <br />53. Locate a play structure for kids near the Park Blocks. <br /> <br />54. Work with Lane County to develop a mixed use or civic structure in place of the butterfly parking lot <br /> on Oak Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, to better integrate this site with the Park Blocks. <br /> <br />55. Implement a historic plaque program and walking tour. <br /> <br />56. Expand the MUPTE program boundary to encourage housing on the edges of downtown. <br /> Periodically review boundaries and expand to include areas where additional housing is <br /> appropriate. Completed. <br /> <br />SZ Establish a vertical housing tax exemption zone in order to encourage residential density and <br /> mixed-use development. Completed. <br /> <br />58. Develop additional financial tools to assist with the development of housing, including the use of <br /> bonds, tax increment financing, land assembly and parking. <br /> <br />59. Remove regulatory barriers to the development of housing in commercially zoned areas downtown, <br /> while ensuring compatibility of uses and design. <br /> <br />60. Reinforce opportunities for home ownership downtown. <br /> <br />61. Seek opportunities to equalize the costs of building housing in and near downtown compared with <br /> locations elsewhere in the city. <br /> <br />62. Support the continued residential use of structures in neighborhoods bordering downtown. <br /> <br />63. Develop a residential mixed-use project on Willamette Street incorporating the former Woolworth <br /> site and Centre Court building. <br /> <br />64. Encourage rehabilitation of older multi-story rental housing south and east of the downtown core. <br /> <br /> L:\CMO\2004 Council Agendas\M040510\S040510D.doc <br /> <br /> <br />