Item A: Downtown Development Update

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32.Develop a differential city fee structure or subsidy of fees for downtown development. 33.Perform a regulatory audit to identify impediments to achieving higher density, mixed-use development and redevelopment downtown. 34.Identify and facilitate infrastructure improvements as a public incentive for private development. 35.Provide incentives for the redevelopment of the vacant Bon Marche/Symantec building and vacant Centre Court building. 36.Provide incentives for façade improvements and redevelopment of retail spaces on Broadway between Willamette Street and Charnelton Street. 37.Work with private property owners toward the redevelopment of the commercial warehouses on 8th Avenue in the Courthouse area. 38.Develop a separate design strategy for each Great Street. Include street improvement elements such as: public art, special planting schemes, center medians, street lamps, benches and kiosks, banners, and building, street and information signs. 39.Develop design guidelines for buildings along the Great Streets. Include elements such as setback, quality of materials, design of first floor, and treatment of parking. 40.Link Great Streets to important public places, including urban plazas and open spaces. 41.Implement street improvements for 8th Avenue, with public art elements, special light standards, signs and street furniture. 42.Implement a design study and possible acquisition of land to make a stronger pedestrian connection from 5th Avenue to the riverfront. 43.Create a pedestrian connection across the railroad tracks between the end of Willamette Street and Skinner Butte. 44. Provide a loan fund for façade improvements along West Broadway. Completed. 45.Include signs, public art and landscaping at the gateways to downtown along Broadway and Willamette. 46.Encourage the creation of new special places especially along the Great Streets. 47.Amend the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan to redesignate the train station from industrial to commercial land use, and rezone to a commercial zone such as C-2 or C-3. 48.Create an artful directory sign program throughout downtown that directs people from special place to special place. 3