Town Clock Plaza - Alt Street DCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
December 27, 2000
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Town Clock Plaza - Alternative Street Designs
Public Works Director Mike Koch is requesting a work session with the City Council on
January 15th from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. to review input on the Town Clock Plaza issue and to solicit
thoughts on the Town Clock Plaza design.
Micfiael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Tim Moerman, Assistant City Manager
Michael A. Koch, Public Works Director
Kevin Eipperle, Dun'ant Group
Dan LoBianco, Dubuque Main Street Ltd.
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
BACKGROUND
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
December 20, 2000
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Michael A. Koch, Public Works Director ,~//~J~
Town Clock Plaza - Alternative Street Designs
The City Council recently gave direction to City staff for the development
and conceptual design of alternatives on the Town Clock Plaza under the
scenario that the Plaza would be open to traffic. A contract was recently
approved between the City and the Durrant Group, and the first phase of
collecting public input will be starting shortly.
DISCUSSION
The first step in the process will be to get input from various stakeholders on
how the Plaza is or should be used and what features should be incorporated
into its design. City staff along with representatives of the Durrant Group
and Dubuque Main Street Ltd. have developed an input process that would
give us quality information as to what the stakeholders see as their needs for
the improvements.
A strategy has been developed to get input from three primary
stakeholders--the property owners on the Plaza, the people who work on the
Plaza, and the general public. The property owner input will be received
through a group discussion on January 9, 2001, at 10 a.m., at NICC's
Dubuque campus. Our primary focus will be on what design features they
need on the Plaza to be successful.
The general public will be invited to give their thoughts on improvements to
the Plaza at a meeting on January 9, 2001, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at
the Library Auditorium. An open house format will be used to record the
thoughts of the individuals attending the meeting.
The input from the approximate 2,000 people who work on the Plaza will be
gathered through use of a mailed survey and a subsequent meeting with an
open house format from 12 noon to 1 p,m. on January 10 at the NICC
campus. A copy of the questionnaire draft will be forwarded for your review
prior to mailing.
City staff and the Durrant Group will then prepare a report on the results of
the survey and the input from the various meetings.
ACTION TO BE TAKEN
The next step is for City Council to review the information for the input
process and summarize preferences for various features of the Plaza. I am
requesting a City Council work session for January 15, 2001 from 5:30 p.m.
to 6:15 p.m., to give them this information and to solicit the Council's
thoughts on the Plaza design. The Durrant Group would use this input and
begin preparing two or three design alternatives for presentation to the City
Council at a later date.
CC:
Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Jeanne Schneider, City Clerk
Tim Moerman, Assistant City Manager
Susan Gwiasda, Public Information Officer
Kevin Eipperle, Durrant Group
Dan LoBianco, Dubuque Main Street Ltd.