Last week, the Greater Hillyard Northeast Planning Alliance submitted their ‘Greater Hillyard Strategic Plan’ to the City of Spokane.
Strategy six is what I’m interested in here, as it details the neighborhoods’ ideas about desirable transportation alternatives. In particular, they reference the importance of completing the North Spokane Corridor, implementing complete streets, and expanding public transportation, particularly through street cars or light rail.
Here’s a link to the plan if you’d like to check it out. If you want the Reader’s Digest version though, aPowerPoint presentation that was delivered to City department heads regarding the plan can be viewed here.
Check it out and let me know what you think. And if you have furthere interest in this plan, there is a meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Northeast Community Center on the Going to have a meeting on the plan and how to implement it this Thursday 6:30 pm at the NE Community Center on the Greater Hillyard Strategic Plan and how to implement it.
Going to have a meeting on the plan and how to implement it this Thursday 6:30 pm at the NE Community Center.
Thanks Charles, I updated the post.
So was this "plan" adopted by the City of Spokane?
Not yet. The group is still working with City staff to see where different departments may be able to solve some of their issues. There was a follow-up meeting scheduled for Sept. 14 but staff tells me that will have to be pushed back a little because that's the same day as a complete streets charette that will include many of the same staff members.
Ok thanks. Just so I'm clear, so the goal of the document is just to get the City to commit to checking off some of those "to-dos" and not to get it adopted as a guiding document?
The Office of Neighborhood Services says the Plan will eventually be adopted by City Council, but right now they're in the process of collaborating to pick off the so-called 'low hanging fruit.'