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Streetscape Improvements - Main Street from 5th Street to 9th Street CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA MEMORANDUM January 12, 2000 TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager SUBJECT: Streets cape Improvements--Main Street from 5th Street to 9th Street On January 11, 2000, Town Clock Plaza consultants, WHKS, met with property owners and the general public to finalize design concepts for the Town Clock Plaza prior to preparing the bid documents for the project. Those that attended the meetings were told, as directed by the City Council on December 20, 1999, that input was only being received on Plaza designs with Main Street remaining closed. Public Works Director Mike Koch advises that sufficient information is available and he is recommending that the project proceed to final design and the preparation of bid documents. I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council approval. Mi MCVM/dd Attachment cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel Tim Moerman, Assistant City Manager ./../ /)'./~~ - 7?i/ML2 -~~ ~C/~ /~d ~r.4 zj~ ~ /~~~ c-~ ~~~ ~ CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA MEMORANDUM January 12, 2000 TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager FROM: Michael A. Koch, Public Works Director ;!ftll~ SUBJECT: Streetscape Improvements - Main Street from 5th Street to 9th Street INTRODUCTION The purpose of this memorandum is to present to the City Council the current status of the concept plans for the streetscape improvements scheduled from 5th Street to 9th Street in calendar year 2000. BACKGROUND On December 20, 1999, the City Council held a worksession to receive an update of the concept plans which had been developed as of that date. The City Council, at the conclusion of the meeting, directed that City staff and the consulting firm continue along the same concepts as were presented. A copy of the December 16th memo from the City Manager discussing the details of the proposed concepts is attached as background material. (The original set of concept drawings were presented in color, however for today's purpose these have been copied only in black and white). DISCUSSION Since the December 20, 1999 worksession, the consultant, WHKS and their design team have further refined the concept drawings based upon a series of meetings held with the property owners in the plaza and the general public on December 7, 1999. Another round of these discussions took place on January 11, 2000, to present the series of more detailed concept drawings again to the property owners in the plaza and the general public. The acceptance of the concept drawings has been positive and City staff and the consulting firm believe that it is therefore time to proceed into final design plans for reconstruction of Main Street, from 5th Street to 9th Street. City staff and WHKS will be prepared to present the concept drawings in detail for the Council meeting of January 17, 2000. Copies of the revised concept drawings will be submitted to the City Council on January 14, 2000. -- -,,' .. The anticipated schedule for the project is as follows: January 17, 2000 City Council confirmation of final concept drawings WHKS preparation of final design and specifications Preliminary approval, special assessments, issuance of Notice to Bidders, and Publication of Notice of Hearing Public hearing on final plans and Assessments Bid Letting Award of Contract Begin Construction Completion February 1 - April 10, 2000 April 1 7, 2000 May 15, 2000 June 8, 2000 June 19, 2000 June 26, 2000 November, 2000 Because the plaza area immediately surrounding the Town Clock is a future phase of construction, the construction will be gapped at 7th Street. The construction improvements therefore are being developed for Main Street, from the south side of 5th Street to the south side of 7th Street, and from the north side of 7th Street to the north side of 9th Street. ACTION TO BE TAKEN The City Council is requested to give any comments on the concept drawings and to direct City staff and WHKS to begin preparation of the final construction plans and specifications for the project. MAK/ksa cc: James Burke, Community/Economic Development Director, City of Dubuque Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager, City of Dubuque Ben Graham, President, Graham's Style Store Dan LoBianco, Executive Director, Dubuque Main Street Ltd. Dan McDonald, Government & Business Affairs Director, Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce Tim Moerman, Assistant City Manager, City of Dubuque Pam Myhre, Associate Planner, City of Dubuque Sue Riedel, General Manager, Grand Opera House Steve Sesterhenn, Vice President, Cottingham & Butler, Inc. GiI Spence, Leisure Services Manager, City of Dubuque Cindy Steinhauser, Parking System Supervisor, City of Dubuque " TO: FROM: SUBJECT: CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA MEMORANDUM Michael C. Van Mill/gen, City Manager Michael A. Koch, Public Works Director December 15, 1999 /j}.! JI dv Streetscape Improvements - Main Street from 5th Street to 9th Street INTRODUCTION The purpose of this City Council meeting is to discuss the current status of the plans as developed by WHKS and Company for the streetscape improvements planned for Main Street from 5th Street to 9th Street, and to solicit further input from the City Council. BACKGROUND The concepts developed for the streetscape improvements to Main Street through the Plaza resulted from City Council meetings and directives given during two meetings dated March 1,1999, and March 15, 1999. A design committee was established to work with WHKS and their design team; it was comprised of the following members: Jim Burke Laura Carstens Ben Graham Mike Koch Dan LoBianco Dan McDonald Tim Moerman Pam Myhre Sue Riedel Steve Sesterhenn GiI Spence Cindy Steinhauser Community Development Director Planning Services Manager President Public Works Director Executive Director Government & Business Affairs Director Assistant City Manager Associate Planner General Manager Vice President, Manager Leisure Services Manager Parking System Supervisor City of Dubuque City of Dubuque Graham's Style Store for Men, Inc. City of Dubuque Dubuque Main Street Ltd. Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce City of Dubuque City of Dubuque Grand Opera House Cottingham Butler, Inc. City of Dubuque City of Dubuque " DISCUSSION The Consultant Team includes Dahlgren, Shardlow, and Uban (DSU) (Planners and Landscape Architects) and Gilmor & Doyle (Electrical Design). The team will prepare design plans for Main Street from 5t. Street to 9'. Street, including the 5t. Street intersection for construction in the year 2000. Preliminary planning concepts will also be developed for the east-west side streets and for the Town Clock area to achieve consistency in the design themes, but these projects will be done at a later date. The Town Clock area is currently anticipated for construction in Fiscal Year 2004, and 6'. and 7th Streets in Fiscal Year 2005. Generally, the Main Street planning and design will follow and support the decisions made for the reconstruction of 8t. Street. For the text that follows. please refer to the attached exhibits. Please note that the exhibits are conceptual only. The exhibits depict options and alternatives that should be considered as aids to the discussion for the features that ultimately will be provided. A proposed development schedule is also attached. The reconstruction of the Main Street as a pedestrian mall will provide an open walkway/promenade down the center of Main Street, providing a clear view of the Town Clock from north and south. Based on earlier stakeholder comments, no seating will be provided adjacent to the building faces. Instead, a more traditional walkway/sidewalk will be provided immediately adjacent to the buildings. Precast concrete pavers will be used for the walking surfaces. For the sidewalk adjacent to the buildings, pavers similar to those used on Eighth Street will be used. Larger (12" x 12") precast concrete pavers may be used for the center walkway, but the emphasis of a smooth walking surface must be maintained, as it was in the sidewalk areas along Eighth Street. The trees, and other landscaping, and seating to be provided will be located between the center walkway and the sidewalk that is adjacent to the buildings. Most of the trees will be ornamental, but some over-story trees will also be provided. The over-story tree species will have a mature height of 30-35 feet and will be pruned to keep the lower branches at 8-10 feet above the walking surface. Tree locations and spacing, project landscaping, and the anticipated lighting will provide a much more open and well-lit streets cape that responds to the public comments about the existing streetscape being unsafe at night. Seating is a critical consideration. The existing picnic tables are considered aesthetically unacceptable for a business park. However, adequate replacement seating and the appropriate locations for functional seating must be addressed. The overall concept responds to pedestrian movements, the architecture of the Main Street buildings, and the spatial needs of the businesses. The design replicates a street and will provide a sophisticated corporate space that is flexible and open. Overall, the concept presented is a fairly simple design, which provides more "closed" space near 5t. Street and is more "open" between 8'. and 9'. Streets. Sumrn;lries of the planned amenities for each block are as follows: 51h Street to 6'h Street The 5th Street intersection will be reconstructed to reduce the width of 5th Street through the intersection, providing for improved pedestrian movement. The actual design will need to be coordinated with the design of the Cigna building for 51h Street. An arch or another vertical design is conceived as a desirable aesthetic element to "draw" people from lower Main Street to the Town Clock Plaza. Open space in this area could provide for exhibit space for the events at the Civic Center. This area would benefit by a more dynamic design than the other parts of Main Street. The concepts presented provided a very high level of seating, with wide (18" _ 24") stone slab benches of various lengths, in arc patterns on both sides of Main Street. The benches would be perpendicular to Main Street, providing the higher density of seating that had previously been requested by representatives of Cigna. The benches would be 8'-10' apart, and vary in length. Some of the benches would be in shade, and others would allow the users to sit in sunlight. The wide benches are a suggested way to provide for some of the functionality of the existing picnic tables, without actual tabletops being provided. Additional features might be stone "bollards" and an ornamental iron "fence" along the edge of the parking lot, with appropriate landscaping. The "bollard" design would allow an individual to use it as a seat. The actual locations for bollards and other vertical elements will be designed to reinforce the strong linear overall design. The actual material to be used to construct the benches and bollards was discussed. Native limestone, similar to what was used for the raised beds on 8'h Street, or precast concrete (cast to mimic native limestone) may be used. The existing Continuum sculpture was discussed. The Main Street design may not "fit" with the aesthetics of the sculpture. Off project locations will be discussed as a part of the project planning. If the sculpture is to be incorporated into the Main Street streetscape, it may be possible to place it with the reconstruction of the 6th Street steps. 6'h Street to 7" Street (South EdQe Of The Town Clock Plaza) The intersection area would be an opportunity to add definition and special features to Main Street. Vertical pillars of stone that would highlight the area and provide a continuation of the view of the Town Clock have been discussed. The concept for seating in this block would have continuous benches in shallow arcs on both sides of the central walkway on Main Street. The bench configurations would provide openings at the building entrances. Pedestrian traffic from one side of Main Street to the other should be minimal, because of the existing businesses in this area. The seating design responds to the building use in this block. Raiseo_ bed or low planting areas will be provided. Trees with tree grates and tree guards are also planned. Tree guards would be specifically designed for this project and serve both functionally and aesthetically. Town Clock Plaza Two (2) conceptual options were presented. Both options indicated a need to try to enhance the aesthetics of the Hartig Drug Store building wall adjacent to the Plaza. The treatment of the Trilog building entrance will be coordinated with the owner. The Town Clock base, pedestal, and the clock itself were discussed. The base configuration would be modified by the project to enhance the stage area and provide steps to the east, replacing the railing that currently exists. The steps could also be used as locations for seating. Controls/equipment for an improved sound system could be located under the revised stage/Clock base. The area between the NICC Building and the Trilog Building, leading east to the alley, was presented as a good place for bicycle racks. Overall, the designers viewed the existing walkway and trees as fairly open, with acceptable lighting levels. However, it was acknowledged that comments have been received that indicate a need to improve this area. Concept 'A' depicted arbors at the west border of the Plaza, adjacent to the alley. The conceptual review indicates that the existing paved surface slopes strongly from west to east. The concept utilized the elevation difference to provide additional steps near the arbors. The steps, 2 -3 levels, would also provide additional seating in the Plaza. The precast concrete pavers could be designed in patterns that would match the geometry (i.e., shape) of the steps. Concept 'B' enclosed the Plaza more with trees and plantings. It would create more steps and a depressed area to the west of the Town Clock. Ramps would also lead to the depressed area. This area could be flexible space, providing for ice-skating and acting as an amphitheater area. 7lh Street (North Edae Of The Town Clock Plaza) To 8th Street This area has the highest level of retail and high pedestrian traffic. The seating design responds to the building use in this block. The seating and plantings in this area would be similar to 6th to 7th Streets, but more open. The concept for seating would have continuous benches in shallow arcs on both sides of the central walkway on Main Street. However, the bench configurations would provide openings at regular intervals and at the building entrances so pedestrians may easily move from one side of the street to the other. 8'~ Street to 9'h Street This area has very strong and distinct building architecture. Reduced plantings were suggested to emphasize the buildings. The more open space near the Graham's Building was shown as an opportunity for more intimate seating and planting. The decision to remove and not replace the existing fountain was made during the planning for 8'h Street. The concept presented an entryway treatment that did not include an arch. An arch at this location was thought to detract from the architecture of the American Trust Building. Instead, tall limestone vertical pillars were presented as a way to "announce" the entry to the Plaza from the north. Visually. the entry would lead the eye to the Town Clock. The pillars might have sculpture(s) on top. The lights used on the 4 monuments at 8'h Street would be installed on the side of the pillars. The lights aesthetically match the existing lights at the entrance to the bank building. The 9th Street intersection would be reconstructed to provide two (2) pedestrian crossings across 9th Street to the Mall. The actual design of the southeast quadrant will require the construction of some steps, because of the elevation change, but a continuous sidewalk would be placed along the south side of 9th Street. SCHEDULE On November 9, 1999, and again on December 7, 1 999, meetings were held with the stakeholders in the Main Street area to discuss their particular needs in relationship to their properties. Two Open Forum sessions for the general public were also held on December 7, 1999. The schedule for the project is to have final design documents presented to the City Council, together with a special assessment schedule in April, 2000. A bid-letting is anticipated in June, 2000, with completion of the work by the end of the year 2000. BUDGET IMPACT The project budget has incorporated $1,000,000 in a TIF Backed G.O. bond issue, $377,615 in special assessments to property owners, and $984,905 in ORA distribution dollars for a total funding package of $2,362,520. ACTION TO BE TAKEN Utilizing City Council input and the input received in the November and December stakeholder meetings, the consultant will continue to work toward final design. Additional stakeholder meetings are scheduled for January. 2000, to present the proposed final improvements and to receive any further comments prior to submitting the project to the City Council for bidding in April, 2000. MAK/vjd 8 . . " , 0( Gl '5 "C Gl .c: u Ul .. N .. 0: .>< u o o c ~ o I- "C C .. - Gl Gl ~ - Ul c ';0 :;: ~ z 8 .M ~. 1l .. . . q . .. "'1 ~ , :r:-" ~~ . ii c ~ u ~ ~'jjj -i.5 z: (I . Q, u c: "- .. :i ~a::~ 0 l:~a'li' ftIQ: "t: ~c~l.-~eft~:~~~s~_~~ .0 .. c ..... 0.. .t:. .. "1:1 ~ ~ ft..~E_...eu.~... ~.w --ae. cc__~ "a ~~c..!!! ~.SO.!.!!"iio :!i!~ <_0::0.0..0. (I)....uQ.a.oz 10< Osa~~8b~sosa~ -............................~NNN ~ - . ... ;; . ~ o Q C - . ~ " . c c . a: .." 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Director Dan LoBianco to test the performance of both walkers and strollers on this pavement. Dan and I met this morning in front of the Grand Opera House to test three walkers with varying sizes of wheels and two strollers with different size wheels. For lack of a better term, I will use "ride" to convey how rough or smooth the movement of the walkers and strollers would be for the users. The first walker we tested was the newest model and had the largest wheels. The impact of the pavers was minimal with the "ride" being relatively smooth and no . safety impact. The next two walkers each had smaller wheels. The "ride" of the two walkers was more rough than that of the walker with the larger wheels. The feel of running across the pavers was more pronounced. We also tested the walkers with the smaller wheels for safety and found that there was no impact on the safety for the user. The first stroller we tested had the large wheels. 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'"_ '. ~ ~. ~.\ . < ;.:, I \'~JI .___ .. . . I !; u UJ ..., 0> e::o 0-3; Z,$!? ~g U _ .B ;:) ~ c r::: -l= ..8 ~ (/) ::;) 8~ ~ lS"!"6 ~ I-..c ~ UJ 0 u W +- .,c, r::: ~8~ (/)(/)Q1!l!8 Z 5 ~ld ~~=EQ--: ~" --,-".-- -.- l - Frolll; John Hiqqin, To; IHl;hae1 ...an Millir,j'<1n I<1x: 5894149 Eage 1 of 1, Monday, Del;elllbet 20, 1999 5;04pll ~ ,t .. . t\l^!t.\\ Ajw.Cl Facsimile Cover Sheet To: Michael Van Milligan 5894149 John Higgins +1(319)5579163 Date: 12/20/99 Pages including this cover a e: 1 Comments: Dear Mr. Van Milligan I am 100% interseted in seeing that the town clock plaza is opened to through traffic on Main Street. Sincerely, Linda Reisen Hennigars Hallmark Town Clock Plaza ..' . . lohn E. Butler,CPCU Andrel'ij.l\ullet, (pell,CEBS Skphenj,Bonlig, CPA Su,"nH. Bulkr DeJn F Fair, CI'CU DavidJ_l'ranson,CSI' f'immG,Jnhnson TimnthyJ.Klmkd Richard\', \.fcKay,CP(:U ChrislOphcrll.Patrick,CI'CU StnenP.Sl'lttrhtnn LarryA.Vogt FredtrickS,Bouml\ JosqlhL.Brodcrick j. Stcphl'nChapman Shannon 11. Colvin Kimherly1\. D('l'l'e M~Tk K. f'itzjerrdl\ Ron~]dJ_ ruhrman, CPA Dean R. (;ilke\ JeHrevA,(;U\e ShellevL. H,l\'ens,PHR Helene M. Hill NitholalC. Hopkins,JD,CPClI TammyM.Kanr Chriltin"M. Kenney, Mil VickieL.La(;wtlJ RohertM. LindsJy,r:rCU,CLU John~,IiJlk RobertT.Ml'Igaard,MD Janel-Mueller MelodyA,\1ueller l.arryJ_Keddcr ]ohn]Ottal'i Bradil'yJ_l'lummer WilliamCReid l.isaL.Schebkr Rkhm[ A. Sigwarth, CEllS, CQM )ercmyj.lheisen SCOl! ,~, V()~lIinger VickiL. Vodlinger ierryD. Wed(,w~r www.cb-sisco.com .~~TI~ I c Ii] S~s!!~~2~~~m~af~~~!:~ ElIabiished 1887 January 11,2000 Mr. Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager City Hall 50 West 13'" Street Dubuque,IA 52001 Dear Mike, Please carefully review the enclosures from the great majority of property owners and business owners on Main Street requesting that Main be opened to traffic from 9'" to 5'" - without parking. These groups are your constituents in all of our efforts to build a better Dubuque. In this instance, despite their varied interests, they have come together with a significant consensus as you will see. The property owners among them will be asked to significantly share in the Main Street costs, in addition to their personal commiunents, to try to make economic sense from renovating old buildings (often a labor of love as you might expect). Further, the Director of Northeast Iowa Community College reacted favorably to this plan and is presenting this to his Board on January 17"'. I understand, from Rick Dickinson, that the owner's representative of the present Trilog building has preliminarily reacted favorably to this plan. (Perhaps the owner has not been previously polled - just the tenant.) There have been many meetings but this effort represents the first clear consensus of property owners and business owners. I have asked Rick Dickinson to help get Trilog on the same page as these many other significant stakeholders. Surely Trilog's management understands that statements made a year ago only reflected a reading on the direction of the downtown thinking at that time. C&B INSURANCE 300 Security Building P.O. Box 28 Dubuq\le,IA52004-0028 (319)583-7344 (800) 793-5235 Facs (319) 583-73W SISCO (PIC CLAIMS) 300 Security Building 1'.0. Box 28 Dubuque, IA 52004-0028 (3l9)5fU-7:H4 (800) 793-5235 Facs (319) 556-92:15 SISCO (BENEFITS) 3UO Security Building P.O. Box 389 Dubuque,IA52004-0389 (319)583-7344 (800) 457-4726 Facs (319) 583-0439 HEAtTHCORP 30USecurity Building 1'.0. Box 1475 Dubuque, IA 52004-1475 (319)58:-1-5888 (800) 583-5888 Facs(319) 583-3510 SAFETY MANAGEMENT 300 Security Building P.O. Box 28 Dubuque, IA 52004-0028 (319)583-7344 (800) 793-5235 Facs(319) 556-9235 . Ic[i] Cottingham & Butler It is not too late to do the right thing. Sincerely, ,-\ YrC- John E. Butler President Cottingham & Butler, Inc. (319) 587-5213 JEB:sds cc: Nicholas J. Schrup, III/President/American Trust & Savings Richard J. Hartig/President/Hartig Drug Stores ENCLOSED DOWNTOWN RENOVATION PROPOSALS: Continental Realty & Investment Ltd O'Toole Office Supply The Bootery American Trust & Savings Graham's Store Cottingham & Butler Fuerste, Carew, Coyle, Juergens & Sudrneier,P.C. McGladrey & Pullen, LLP Steele Financial Services Wallis, Kunnert, Price & Smith Hennagir's Hallmark Dubuque Main Street Ltd. Walker Shoes Star Uniforms Hartig Drug Store Mercantile Bank Herbst Upholstery " . . . . . . . .",....-lCol'-~ .L....JC.I ~=.I...."''t.:tI~IL..I~ .,)J."=' ;)Ct:J lae~ ,....~....lC:J:> Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in tb midst of an excool1ent opportunity to tie all oftb key dowm.own renovaticm projects toalllber IIId maka it H5Y for tourisls and our 0WJl'~" to get arOUDd to enjoy the beauty of our city. W11h mer ftoat dewlo,mlent on lhe move, the restoration ofr- Main, ;u:tivity in Cable Car Square UICI the opeIIiDg of the Art Museum and WashillgtOn Park area there is still one area of UIWJ1 that sits like III islmd UIlto i1setf... TOWIl Clack Plaza. 1his area of tile city has long b_ forgoltm1 by it citizens. except for special cvems such as All That Jazz and various festivals. Durin, the rat of1lle YeM this area remains as a bllSiness parle to many growing service oriented !It',izlI'oses. The problem? The current and the pmposed renovation oftbe Main Street area of the plaza. does not address key issues that have plagued Ibis downlDwn \",.".;"": . Docs DOt aeate the atDIospbc:rc to physically dnw people to the plaza area except for special events- . Does DOt allow for IDCMIJDeDt in and 1brough the downtO\lUlL . Thee is a perceived feeling of the area being UIlliafe after bolli's. . The =t proposed desip creates lII1 area tba1 is c:onclucive to loiterin& . . slcateboardiDg. rolla'bladina IIld allier aaivities. whidl deter touris1l; IIld odu:rs to visit the area. All of these items create an "Wand" within the city that is not c;oaducive to the owral1 growth and direction that the city of Oubllql>e wants or needs. The recommendation to lIIis problem is to ope:G up MmI Streer between 5" Street and .,. Street. 1his could be done in such a way to meet lIIe needs afay stakeholders. CIGNA and NlCC and create a higher level of activity tD malee the area safer and more inviting, Th.. proposal is: · Create a two-lane street, willi 110 parkiDa, from Sib to 9'" along Main Slreet. . . The design wou1d be similar TO lIIe CIIlTeIll: ,Ill Street rellllVatian. without drop off zones. and with plenly of historic lip aad plaDtars for trees. ftowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" lUll! variOll5 t'estivals the street could be closed and portable stasin& coWd be put iD place iD the Town Clock area for bands. etc. The street would be used for food IUId beverage vendors. . . Provide one 1_ of traffic arOlllld key poiDu of iDterest, possibly the fountain u 9'" Street and the TOWIl Cloc1c. This would create a way to control speed through. the area aDd also bring Il historil: European city f'eeling that matches the fine arcbitectllre in 1II. downtowu arca. ~ 01/04100 C:lMy J1on).....nr.IReaovalion E/Z'd 'J055~'5na N~W~3a,3~ ~9,:0, 00, 60 ~f .' , ~. ~HI'4""""t1(-..c:t:I!Ili!J 14i~ LJI fHl.ll..... rlH1N ~1WI:I:.1 L,.IU .51':1 ~B8 1!1645 p, 05/lilS w This proposal has many benefits that could "ute & ttue "wiD-win" situaDon for the ~ty aucl dowrll:own busiuss: . Would meet all tho lIlleds ofthc downtown ~,...lteh"Jders" . OperIs the ceI1ter of 1be city to tllIIrists -lritIg it easier for 1hem 10 access various .u...dions in and around the d~.A\."".lI area. . Ties Upper iII1d Lower Main lDgtk wbile stlll maintainiDg an ~Office Park" enviromnent. . Cn=ms more activity and traffic tbroup lb8 do_ ana to provide a safer m:virnnl'n-.n't . Reduces lo;tnMB ~ IIIli roUerbladillg ~...- of m. heigh'""e<:I a.cUvity. . Provides easier m2;"--"'e for city persOllXlel through m. proven and consisteDt design. . Costs Wllllid be reduced ovu the proposed cIesip. eIIl;Ourage tho city c:ouDCillo adopt this proposed plan !or the downtown U,Al"i, II ... foTT'.4 L ~u.t.;T"1 F=~IdfA. M....,; f+.ff/lit1~J I /'1!cf).oao BusiDess Date 01104100 C:IMrD~ TOTAL P,lilS ; JAN-07-2000 15:10 DUBUQUE MAIN STREET LTD 319 588 0645 p.04/05 : Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river ITont development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washiniton Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has loni been forgotten by it citizens, exceFt for special events such as All That 18.Z2 and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: · Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area bemg unsafe after hours. · The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activitIes, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between Slh Stree! and 9lh Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, ClGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: · Create a two.lane street, with no parking, ITom Sth to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current glh Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. · During special events such as "All That J8.Z2" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. · Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01104/00 C;lMy DocumelllslRenovation . . JAN-07-2000 15: 11 DUBUQUE MAIN STREET LTD 319 588 0645 P.05/05 , This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" · Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. · Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. · Creates more activity and traffic throu&h the downtown area to provide a safer environment. · Reduces loitering. skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. · Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. · Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. t:7 7&7# f Business t:J//lc-'E 5v/. Date 01/04/00 C:lMy Documents\Renavation TOTAL P.05 ---- ~ .. e , Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation I ------ '" .. This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~~1jf- 1l~~ Business (]- I I/o /.10 ~ 01/04/00 C:\My Documents\Renovation Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area o l/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. ~il ""'op' "'" prop'"''' pl;m fm fu. do~w~ . ~ ---- ~i!'"."._ $..-v'r /- J';t70 Signature Business Date 01/04/00 C:\My DocumenlSlRenovation Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself.. . Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: · Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5'h Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9'h along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9'h Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01104/00 C:\lI.1y DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~~ J4~ Sign e G..,J,.",,,,,, -510-<- Business ,. <; 'OJ Date o 1/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation . . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the kev downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens te get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: · Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . Traffic would be limited to nighttime hours, 6pm to 6am and weekends. · The street would be closed during the weekdays to create a pedestrian mall for people working in the downtown area · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. · Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area 01/03/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them. to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~/~'~ Business1- Date I--G-~(!) ~c~ 01/03/00 C:\My DocumentsIRenovation . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~,~\ f),C;~~ ~ee\Q ~\\.~(~~\ ~)~0 Signature Busmess Date Sef 0-:-<-e ::, 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation 4. Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: · Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. · During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. · Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~fi'~ tJAII/S. K;hlfflV .Pr,'(~'l.. ~.7 h J - ~-. .).000 Business { Date 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentsIRenovntion . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself. . . Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: · Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown no3.- c(f~ ^~ ;4,-&A ~ f!:.x..'C.~.lr~~~~r-.<"'<-+Dr- bv~. A-.JC '- Signa P [fSJuJ '0 k D,",b~i"\.'" t-'\:..\,,~tLT.D J"",,,,,,,,y 1\/ ~()()() Business Date ' 01/04/00 C:lMy DocumentslRenovation . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself. . . Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: · Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. o 1/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ( , j\,,,i,,,- Signature i;l / 1\ (; 1 ,- L':" 7'/ ) /'~ "^ -~d/' Business ,\..-, /- '1 - 00 Date 01104/00 C:\My Documents\Renovation . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. o 1/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation . This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ;)\.ct~L[lL /:xu beLl ?'... Signature [,,-OJ ic Coj c;,ll{LC", Business I/S/tJ{ Date 01104/00 C:lMy DocumentslRenovation . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: · Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01/04/00 C:\!vIy Documents\Renovation - This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~/k Signa ~/ ~~~( Business /-5 ;;;t;l?J Date 01/04/00 C:\My DocumenlslRenovation . '. - Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itsel[.. Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · Ther'e is' a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. · The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. o l/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. ~/ ~, . Signature "j B~~~ ~ /-/".'hTnJ Date 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation --- 01/10/00 16:30 FAX 3195892261 , . MERCANTlLE-DBQ ~02 Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportUnity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that si1s like an island unto itself. . . Town CIcek Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business parle to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area oftbe plaza does not addnss key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being \IIlSafe after hours. . The cmrent proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding. rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and ditection that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation 10 this problem is to open up Main Street betWeen S,. Street and 91h Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders. CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with DO parking, from Sib to 9'" along MaiD Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8" Street renovation. without drop off :wnes. and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jau" and various festivals the street could be closed and por'lable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock. area for bands. etC. The street would be used fOT food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at gill Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the line architecture in the downtown area 01104100 C:\My Doc:nmt:dU\RenovaUoD --- .0t!10100 / '. 16:30 FAX 3195892261 MERCANTlLE-DBQ ~03 This proposal bas many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: . Would meet aU the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists ",~lring it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. . Ties Upper and Lower Main together while stiU maintaiDing an "Office Park" environment . Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. . Provides easier maintenance for city pc:nonnel through the proven and coDSistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. f/iii~ SIgnature htc;.)L~/fH/'~ ~;t' Business I-/() -d(} Date 01104100 C:\My DocwnenlSlRenOVlllion FRO~ :, HE~BSr UPHOLSTERY 76 MAIN ST FAX NO. : 1 319 5821620 " ';Q'-07-= 15,27 DUBUlUE MAl" STREET I..Tr' Jan. 07 2000 05:58PM P2 3:9 588 0645 P.04/05 DowDtowa RenovatioD Proposal Th. city is in tIlo midst of iIll ..-un oppot1IUJity to lie all of tho key dowmown renovaian projec!S together IIId make it eey for lOIIriala ...ei 0Ilr 0\\0a cilizeDs to pt arolllld to enjoy !he beau&y ot 0;4" city. With m.r ti'oIlf deYe/opmeat on 1be IIIOW, me restoration of 1.0_, MaiD, ~vity ill Cable C. Square anei tho OPelliD& of1be Art Mlueum and WashilJltOA ParIc. area there is still one _a of town that sits Jik.1Il is1aad IlDlO illelf... TOWll Clock Plaza. TIlls area oflbe city lla510llll bea forgotten by if ..~. except for Sl*i&I.Vl:D1lI ~uc:h as All That Ja.zz and VIrilNs flstiwls. Durina lile reM orlhe y_ Ibis Ilea remains as a businss park to ~y srowiDa 5e1"1ice MeIlted busillaues. The preblem? The cumm lI!ld 111. propelled nIIIOYIIlian of th8 Main Street area of the plaza dDes - ~ llay issu. tblIt heve piqued this dowuIown 1000000lll>: . Does !lot cnIate tIJe lllIIlospllcn: to physica11y draw people to the plaza IT... exrcpt for specialOY1mtl. · Does not allow for _DICl!It in IDd llIrOIlgh the downtown. · There is a perceived fwlin& of tbe area beinS 1IIWIflI after houn. · The Cumlnt proposed desip createS aD _ that is conducivw to loitenng, skateboardiDc. tollmbladina and odler wiviu... wbich cl.- touriq and od=s to visit the am. All of these il8lllS _ 3D "ialaIld" withiD lb. city diu illlOC coaduci.... to the ovmJ!l ItOwrh and clifectian cbat the city of Oubuquo wmts or nilds. The ~ to Ibis problem i; to opeD. up Main Strftt ~,.. Stteer and 9" Street. This could be ae in such a ~ to lMet the ~ otkey stakehoklas, CIONA ;md NiCe and cr.. :I. higbI:r level or Klivity to mUe tbe _ safer md mere inviting. The proposal is: · C_ a two-lme s:reet, with 110 paricDg. !rom ''''Ill 9'" alOIlg Main SIl'eet. · 1he desisn woukl be silllilar u> the eumnt ,1Ia Streel t8llOVatiCll. without drop Qff mia, and with plellty at histcric: li_ aIId planten lOr In:eI, flo""WS llI1d to use as sca!illg. · DuriDg spec:ial- sllCb as .'All That IIZ2~ cd ~01lS fNliv~ the street could be cJOSll1llZld portable mging coulcI be put in place in the Town Clock area fur bllllds. etC. The meet would b. used lOr 1bod aDd ~ vtJldon. . Provide _ i_ <>i u.ffie IrOWld key )lOin\:, of lDterest, possibl)l1be 1'oun1:t.ill at ~ Street me! th8 Town Oock. nu. would c:re&IO a way to GOIIlrol SPeed through rhe area IIld also bring a historic lluropaa city l'eeIinl1hal matches the fine architecture in dle downtowu area. (lliIJ4JOO C;'lttfy cQ~tlmc.nu.\l\cnova.Oo!\ . FROM ~ f1ERBST UPHOLSTERY 76 MA I N ST FAX NO. : 1 319 5821620 Jan. 07 2000 05:58PM PI 3: 9 588 0645 P. <)5/r,s .. J~~I-e7-2121Cl.1 1:5:;!? DUBUQUE MAIN STREET ~rD ThIs proposll hu UlaDy beaolil31h1t cO'Dlci mate & tI'IIll "win-wiu" situaSicn for dill CIty aDd downtown busiDas: . Wguld IlInl aIllbe need5 ofllle downtown ~stalalIIolden" . Opens the cen1Ilr olthe city to toUrisIllllllkilll it easier fm 1hem 10 acc8Sll vanclI& WlCliCllS in md around the clcnwunw area. . Ties Upper and towv Main IOpCber wbile..U mliatoiBi1IJ SI1 ~Otlice ParI\" enviroameat. . C__ mere activity aDd 1!!ft\c tImlQaII tlla d_ .. to provi<le a sw eDVir_. . ~ I.oiturizI& sk&lllboardiDa lIlld ro!lelbladiq 1lec:auI, of the ~""'-d activity. . Provides euicr -";"'-ce for city pasoIIII8I !bro. the prD''''''' and Consisl.,U desip. . Cosls would be reduced over the plQPOMd dasip. We would moaaly lIICOungc the city COUI1cU to edgpt tbia proposed plall fOr 1lle downtoWll now (~jJ~ S igilatll:e ~~ t!7!Cl:J BU5iDess DIte OllQ4IOO C:lMy Dol:wnmts~"tion TDTAL =".35 '. . Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself... Town Clock Plaza. This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: . Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. . Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. . There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. . The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area. All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: . Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. . The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. . Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area. 01/04/00 C:\My Documents\Renovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: · Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" . Opens the center of the city to tourists making it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area. · Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment. · Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a safer environment. . Reduces loitering, skateboarding and rollerblading because of the heightened activity. · Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. . Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. Signature Business Date 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation Downtown Renovation Proposal The city is in the midst of an excellent opportunity to tie all of the key downtown renovation projects together and make it easy for tourists and our own citizens to get around to enjoy the beauty of our city. With river front development on the move, the restoration of Lower Main, activity in Cable Car Square and the opening of the Art Museum and Washington Park area there is still one area of town that sits like an island unto itself. . . Town Clock Plaza This area of the city has long been forgotten by it citizens, except for special events such as All That Jazz and various festivals. During the rest of the year this area remains as a business park to many growing service oriented businesses. The problem? The current and the proposed renovation of the Main Street area of the plaza does not address key issues that have plagued this downtown location: · Does not create the atmosphere to physically draw people to the plaza area except for special events. · Does not allow for movement in and through the downtown. · There is a perceived feeling of the area being unsafe after hours. · The current proposed design creates an area that is conducive to loitering, skateboarding, rollerblading and other activities, which deter tourists and others to visit the area All of these items create an "island" within the city that is not conducive to the overall growth and direction that the city of Dubuque wants or needs. The recommendation to this problem is to open up Main Street between 5th Street and 9th Street. This could be done in such a way to meet the needs of key stakeholders, CIGNA and NICC and create a higher level of activity to make the area safer and more inviting. The proposal is: · Create a two-lane street, with no parking, from 5th to 9th along Main Street. · The design would be similar to the current 8th Street renovation, without drop off zones, and with plenty of historic lights and planters for trees, flowers and to use as seating. . During special events such as "All That Jazz" and various festivals the street could be closed and portable staging could be put in place in the Town Clock area for bands, etc. The street would be used for food and beverage vendors. · Provide one lane of traffic around key points of interest, possibly the fountain at 9th Street and the Town Clock. This would create a way to control speed through the area and also bring a historic European city feeling that matches the fine architecture in the downtown area 01/04/00 C:\My DocumentslRenovation This proposal has many benefits that could create a true "win-win" situation for the city and downtown business: · Would meet all the needs of the downtown "stakeholders" · Opens the center of the city to tourists m. king it easier for them to access various attractions in and around the downtown area · Ties Upper and Lower Main together while still maintaining an "Office Park" environment · Creates more activity and traffic through the downtown area to provide a. safer environment · Reduces loitering, skateboarding and roIIerblading because of the heightened activity. · Provides easier maintenance for city personnel through the proven and consistent design. · Costs would be reduced over the proposed design. We would strongly encourage the city council to adopt this proposed plan for the downtown now. "?(;~__;:u w f~ Signature M..Gbdr",v & Pullen. LLP 1-.11-00. Business Date 01/04/00 C:\My Documents\Renavation 1 , , __lr_ 895 Town Clock Plaza P.O. Box 938 Dubuque, Iowa 52004-0938 (319) 589-0824 Fax 589-0839 nschrup@americantrust.com www.americantrust.com Nicholas .J. Schrup III Executive Vice President January 4, 2000 The Honorable Terry Duggan Mayor of Dubuque City Hall Dubuque, IA 52001 Dear Mayor Duggan: Thank you for taking time last Wednesday to discuss the plaza matter. Again, I apologize for the seemingly less than organized appearance before the council work session on this topic. However, those of us there were quite surprised to learn of the importance of that session until late that Monday afternoon. As I mentioned at the work session, and as we discussed further, American Trust supports the council's consideration of opening the plaza to through traffic. Formally, we feel strongly that the Eighth and Ninth Streets segment, which directly affects our property, should be opened to traffic. We also feel that opening the entire plaza to traffic wiil be a great benefit to downtown. We do recognize that this position appears iate in coming. However, a number of critical events have occurred which brings us to this point. First of all, through the design process, all property owners were given a clear understanding of the options available with the plaza concept. As you are aware, this design process is still underway. Second, the completion of the Eighth Street project in December gave us all a concrete example of that option, which is quite appealing. Third, during the design process a number of concerns were raised including items such as maintenance, safety, and the overall appearance a new plaza may offer. It became apparent over the past few weeks that a significant number of property owners shared similar views. As a result of all the above, we concluded that opening the plaza is in the best interest of all. I respectfully request that you kindly consider our position on this most important issue. I thank you again for your time and look forward to further discussion. ) /~ Nicholas J. Schrup III Executive Vice President sab cc: Michael Van Milligen WILLIAM C. FUERSTE ALLAN J. CAREW MICHAEL J. COYLE STEPHEN J. JUERGENS ROBERT L. SUDMEIER" DOUGLAS M. HENRY MARK J. WILLGING MICHAEL J. SHUBATT.... NORMAN 1. WANGBERG A. THEODORE HUINKER Law Offices Of FUERSTE, CAREW, COYLE, JUERGENS & SUDMEIER, P.C. 200 SECURITY BUILDING 15 1 WEST 8TH STREET DUBUQUE, IOWA 5200 1-6832 TELEPHONE: (319pS6-4011 TELECOPIER: (319) SS6-1l34 January 11,2000 E-MAIL: fccjs@mwci.net ALL ATTORNEYS LICENSED IN IOWA . ALso LICENSED IN WISCONSIN ... ALso LICENSED IN ILLINOIS Mayor Teny Duggan and Members of the City Council, City of Dubuque City Hall Dubuque, IA 52001 Dear Mayor Duggan and Members of the Council: I have maintained an office in downtown Dubuque for over thirty-one years, The improvements to 8th Street restored a dimension to downtown which has been missing, Opening Main Street from 9th to 5th would further improve the downtown area as a busy commercial area in the City. Please consider a vote in favor of an open Main Street free of any parking. Very truly yours, FUERSTE, CAREW, COYLE, JUERGENS & SUD IER, P.c. AJC/jar May 9, 2000 Honorable Mayor and City Council, I am writing this letter to express my opinion on the downtown plaza. I am a resident of Dubuque, an employee of the downtown/plaza area and a patron and participant of downtown vendors and community events and I wish to state that I am adamantly opposed to further opening the plaza to vehicle traffic. As an employee of the downtown, I enjoy being able to go outside during my lunch breaks and it is evident during the noon hour that there are numerous other employees in the area that enjoy to do the same. I am also aware that the residents of Ecumenical Towers enjoy spending time in the plaza area throughout the day as well. On a nice day it is a beautiful and convenient place to spend earned time away from one's work. Just recently a visitor told me that I was fortunate to be able to work in such a pretty area. It was with regret that I had to inform him that this might not continue to be the case. The plaza area has never detoured me from being a patron of the downtown vendors prior to my working downtown and I have always enjoyed the festivals and activities held in the plaza area. While I am aware that the Riverfront Project will be a future alternative for festivities, it should not detract from the downtown area. Festivals and activities are only one aspect of the plaza. As a citizen of Dubuque I have been concerned over the recent decisions that continue to be made to rid Dubuque of it's heritage and history to make room for more parking and vehicular traffic. Historical buildings that can never be replaced are removed and "replaced" with parking lots and architecture that does not equal that of what was removed. This is ludicrous and is taking away the very aspects of Dubuque that make it unique to the residents and visitors of this city. The City Council needs to stop making decisions on the whims of independent business owners. It is destroying our town. I would also like to express my opposition to the proposal that the remaining plaza area be merely maintained to save money for other projects. This proposal is a little too late as half the plaza renovation project has already been completed with the opening of 8th Street. To leave the remaining plaza as is would be comparable to receiving half a facelif! while hiding one's remaining face under a paper bag. Should the Council Members decide to go forward with opening the plaza area, might I suggest some town slogans for the City of Dubuque? I was thinking "Dubuque: A Nice Piece of Asphalt by the River" or "Come Home to Dubuque! You can drive and park your car anywhere but not do much else". Sincerely, ~~~ Wendy J. Lyons 1320 Rhomberg Avenue (residence) Dubuque, Iowa 5200 I 745 Main Street (work) Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Vi 'Gf1;;\iCF'<1 88!l\C s.,'. rJ,\C) tZ :0\ H'It 0 \ ~.VH 00 03/\\3~3t1 May 8, 2000 Mayor Terry Duggan and Members of City Council City Hall 50 West 13th St Dubuque, IA 52001 HAND DELIVERED RE: Opposition To Proposal To Eliminate Town Clock Plaza Dear Mayor Duggan and Members of the Dubuque City Council: Enclosed are petitions signed by various interested persons opposing the proposal to eliminate the Town Clock Plaza and reopen Main Street. We are sure there are many many other persons, who support keeping the Town Clock Plaza. While there are several business persons, who have pushed for the destruction of the plaza for their own purposes, it should be noted that most of them relocated on the Town Clock Plaza long after Main Street was closed and the plaza built in the 1960's. Destruction of the plaza will seriously impact the hundreds of persons that use it in the warm months as a place to eat their lunches and socialize. Reopening the downtown streets will also act to create a hazard for shoppers, who live in Ecumenical Towers and nearby apartments. Finally, the destruction of the Plaza will destroy the cultural and social heart of the downtown area. The various festivals and other programs which are held regularly in the town clock area will have to find a new location. We ask you to weigh the competing interests and do what is best for the vast majority of the people in the downtown area. Yours truly, en 0 ..::.t Q) co ,8 ::r, LU '" ,-, ----, .-'--. ',..0 - ":.;;j; ,~) U C Cl ..:.; I LL ....--~ .':_.'l CC "'" ~) David "",'- ~:::>C:J W. -- C:J 0 701 Dubuq 0 PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: ~ ~ ~:;5~1 1:'-'---<--'---L- - (~U' CVLe...: eX Sv LO - ~_ DB([) We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. 31''/-:>''1, - f! '17 G, We hereby request the City preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including the clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset and should not be destroyed. ! ~~: ~:;iF C~~o 5' dL0V11v~) r!~r2~;-np, ,A~ fl~ J~ i-l"A~l~ (~;?(4) .F~~v/? / ~R/VU? 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We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , ~ ~'1 J. .;....AA.. ;./..,-- - ," ....-/.,1 <'" PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , h) 3,5' N~ 00\0. \::';2...0 ,':Ul~UV\r-~ ~.J-e . Dv.Jp, .'?c/}, 'flxStS]10+ L).,\.gL h.J.u~ ;;;~I) Pen,' ')~, ~Vl~~Z:~' ~6 KL~.."L..~ L. en'lo Rc. 5<: JI.J<-.. 02/('.,., c:::9,...~ ~ tit? 5["c<<, d, J)6e PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and ~nlllq ~~e destroyed. ~v.\\'t'l~,~ . preserve the ToWn Clock Plaza, including -~~ We believe the plaza 1S a valuable asset I , ~o...re ~~ ",-,",do ~o",......-\t. ~~-V-(7. 7I?//~~ .;;z 5!J, 1-1;; r:: r!J~aJ r ;~./ 1-/),,/,_/ MJ:2, 538-lf'f'lb / :/ 4 Y '/ ~k f1, '-( - ,r-I)" ::If- 7't 7-77/]/ -f', . :1------- '-'C<-?1''<---I!..1~~''_( //;~C~) I IrdQ()YVfA.~. Y: . f,fL<'C .t1A'l!.~PLA2vt ..-.::. w~..~ f, - (7) ~/YJ.--7.o_~c..~d t/IL-- ~ ,p /l .J /- ~ ~7J Wh~f' CZjTbo7- 0vLj ~chv,' 2,7C Li) ,d:/t :f:t- 'If 10 ;(,')0 ,./, (. ~JL it ::;'0<; Off&; 5713-l1/J'f.z .j~f!U/(! -.1il "ff "Illl, ~3'CJ ~-4j:,- C~ Jf:: :1 CJ 7 a..rfr J~'Le."'J Q ,",~-,L< ~'1'~~ ' , ' " r \ ,11c 't[/f.Ci I ~ ~ 't- PP6 h G /J 1 ' ~ ^fL If. f' /1 , h, 711 :J.,~ AM' J;: /h1()~ H ~ J~ . '- FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT " DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES TOWN CLOCK PLAZA 745 MAIN STREET ~ DUBUQUE, IOWA 52001 ,~ PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the 8~ty of Dubuque. the preserve the ToWn Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , -' ~, I " a...- / ,~~) 4~~;,~i~~ r ( t" .- If' o~ /l~<,c, ~~zc&C-L j'''C'e(+d- ? YS""/;?7a"",", <:;'7 D~u 2~f ~4~ p~ i" '1)~/ IIt ----- PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , 1/ ~~ DeS ~;:/ a~~W~~ (}j~ 9rr: , ~ 7Y':o-~ bcJ~ ;; c/'~a/~, 8tl;' 'O-Cu? ( 07{ . 7zJr- j)!a4~ ~ Ml<,~~(,i?, 7'15 1'vl,'(V-Sl- iJ t.( Ctt-"<<- ~ o L\ c:J ,~, S-L~~\bl-~ ../-(0' '1~S' YY1~)~~ :llt I S-405 (iPfJ}-f't1 P ;:PI ;;~Y,J1f.h . Duh ,XA llJ (la(ktJI2_. ~ P~,r:A (tWVh 'r' s- / r '-- M a 0') <1> " }l I I I -'l' ~ ::s; ..... r, - 0: \_J rr -0 6 ", C 0) , 7~ I =:; LJ.. , (" . r~.'" 0: ~- .,' -, " -2;~ cj' ~ ,,",'- = i:J 0 .-:Jl~(\.. '.I...-L ~..z."L",,_. C )0 DUBUQUE TOWN CLOCK PLAZA I WOULD LIKE THE FOUR-BLOCK DUBUQUE TOWN CLOCK PLAZA TO REMAIN A PLAZA, CLOSED TO TRAFFIC. t c' L.____ ->:~ 'V" ("1-\-:1" -C<....,,,,,,.,.--(1-' ~.," ,( / -" --- ,.-""-, 1'-' ~ I ~'\.. ;)LU..C:...... ."J'I-C' '~/L-.L--,..LJ.-': '\ C( ",,-_x-\.Z NAME ADDRESS i , \'-I.~ N\.<\." r-,. ::':''<-re"-,, 'Dv-Jp--\ &>J\p WORK OR LIVE DOWNTOWN \ - .1.- 7,_c<:.... 1,/ A ,L. ~ ." lOV"'- u.. /. -/,7L>-7k' "",..., \L ~_nl,S""o... P..".,... (~ J--" / ' --;; 77 ?-/!' (, 'IX..::/ "-- ~""'" l"' \ , ,\Uv-", Tt:/Jfj}- I _ " /') ,J f-m ~~, . ~,., r;.y ?c{<) rv-.O':"'..... ~ // /~ I ( J /I " -- I,..... C") Q) Hi .:r- .....::.:: ..-::;- ~ 12- ifF I......) -. II; -- ~ - -, f-' , ;;) -,) I - '-j ::::,' oc;::~ -- . --' 0 '-J '- FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, DEPARTMENT OF CORREcnONAL~vas TOWN CLOCK PLAZA 745 MAIN STREET ff4 DUBUQUE. IOWA 52001 :a PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. OIlllZOlHdV We hereby reques t the City preserve the ToWn Clock Plaza. including the clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset and should not be destroyed. ,. , : ADDRESS: /L/O I 1UJiJ1c[ fl6?!;', peEr. j'1Q 5 A-shLlr'j r.:d. -d 3 J..J,}.6 (~eV\ i rcL I A lIe. NAME: 5D -:5D (Ctuvlt/ Sc.o-\-( Bl-t" d ~O~ frcJ ~ er..5 '~rr a~,.,-- DflJ,.;,s MeN ~~ tA r . J DfJrV -rNtnJ;JSc;v 0-~J F~; h~ ':"YQ~ RiDo4- .> 19" m<.'\<::)f\~\on~ C'\k."""~LL<O)Od.s-- /()q/?, KPJ WI'S/ b/. JJ - J:;:;:,b?~...7A );xJJ! t-/ /7 ~ 1(Jf!, ;VW -WC<{d.e.:I1l pJ.-OYj 3()~1 f:'ooih,/ I cf b-h.J :LA 5..200 I t.J;;7 ftlf11f17/T .&-M>_ ~??o ~-<<H -<(.J f) ;2C?;}, 2, d- '6'0 P<::,/\ I' il---v f)\J~ / 5 '-/2. ll. II ~ D ~ . ~YY2 11 ~_ tl ),1 (!;({)4?f~ a"d) I ,.. r...... - 1!".Q (', .Q .( .......',...,"- ('.' "".... , .'., ~ ',( " e::) (,,/ n- ':A'S \\5' ~..: ~'\ - , '\ :'~0' (~..() ,t)- <',~" )'/ .'<'.. <:..:.> ~.. 6X;\~ PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. (/k' ~~~::; , preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuabl~ 3C' 't1J7tf7iu c; r sy'"::2 - 3;2 :?;.L / .3.7 0 ~cnU~ <;51> -.?ff5c;,:? /''- /j ,,'( ;.),/j ,'--, --/ '--1/ {~ _.1 Z . ~6Jo ~ if, .- [3r1 V\J 5'1c.(i S'io,-'oKCf7 7; c ~~ s--/-:J - d-'373 / y '1."7 )j / ~A.4 U ,"Ff,i,-;,p -.5",:<, l~y.s;-hJ!.v>A/lJ_ 5S'~ /<&><-;2.-/ J4{'O 0 ~ ~-gd-:!)J96 ~t~Lt~/ JK:hj)j7~ /3pr W~ ~ 5-& ),-<;89'7 -(1 .r.,- 'I '/' <'] /(~"'( .:) /- .!: J:l.r 2c;~ () I~ ,1 / /3 t't> c:; P y <'s-' 7- &:$ t) j~~~ d}l .1-%-<jdbP CJ/.,i; / 7. (;?:J.-/::~dJ /5/0 AJ. .I/Ir"~~ -.5-{(\{,o<!'sL.. 26 B C) /J1/Ne:.~ A L S-8a-j 'I ZG ~{)26 J(9,L, /r--'J"( '~}',!:J-.PY }7(( 7 ( Y-v/Cl! ju, \Y'fd; /5' 1"7 ,~/', -.' ,'" "/. <7( ,> / ,J .,) C',,!-16(( it:::.. 'J::-) 0- _) Loc, i!J;, &.1- /'1 III II I PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. ~~:k~ jJ~~ <II~, ~b \\ .. cpul .. G')'(). .. ~'(fVv1)v~ (ji;;~~ ;;~~~ /);"'~.J~~'o_.1 )- 'tl preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I 6?dl'd;?~. '_,. ~".2-6~ /tf'tJ~ /(T ?, I.).., [, to j!/"NN:JA;~I {J. {,vi {,,~ U!;tJZ ci/7!J~ ~.uA'1"'~ /~1le. 3j7~C7~/''~ ~. .:? / '7 S- O~ i"~'. . - - - c7.. o. S- S;9".~ f!~-n,#tf. t: ~ ? -~ dA/-fl jl J;7n( ( J' "I $1 ?'dk.. )~~ ,<,iU-K-,) ;7j([ .. 171.'7. !4?~H"..h-<~ /r:;&b mt (~~v:.Jao1A...+- .. (~ 9 c. @.uvJ'-€- hi. ::s:_1'~:3J .~15aUJ~ 4{,/B2.. C1t,,-~.~~ . PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be des r yed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , /~ 7/Cf0'c. qV-e- ) f? 6C--> c.....J';---./ ;?j I / q'>?<-r~,~A ~ /~OO S.tra- k ). ,5 f" ~ t' il //.- /j ,fJv;. ~~.(~ JFS-( ~~ f)t3tp ~j)(1 Oc" (l.V- t:.n c:) 6t/'..::- C/ j y-() W 0, U A.9~- / !:JO (JRA_'J7JYl flt d.9YLj ---be)CSOt\ \~( ~ (holr"-'~ eA '1Q C, ,(Y\ -). v:;;;: I \ ~'C,,--<- <\ ~ , 7?'7 A 1.#/)1 /fiLj I/hJ~/S"~Y ~ l.Q() ~l( C\ ~ ~ Sf:" PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. 0fl~//1 J:t14{ 44; // ~ < -1 ~ A CJ,_ /-+ .. ,~cW LJLA {) J~, 0 thA.~L/ ",J, - ..#--- - ,2 ( '/42- t/UBclQ,tt>L- i3Lbi1 c3og/~~ '-<--'I ).;;> /0 Y'..,. J.>> :t ;....~~ l7 r :,,: '(I':> fl,C:'-e Vo.JlG.) P'I , :(;!;tf,,4~t:~t ,I1J~<~ , ,fOX/ !rtltJP (J I /{)r 1L~) PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , , ';t J',' C /;' , /" / (.:; .;',;( ',-<~ " "', "-,(" ' .' /( ~_ -", L -'- ?---..... ~- ~I:~') ~if~~ ' ) ; <9/',' /~ ':;IlL---- / 'it/net , /(/:~:{~1~ l~~~ "~, YU,-<.. ~Z," ~J4a~, /1 /r, . ,,' . LJ J , I I' "'7 -/1/' : : ~:-4( / <'<-'")' /'(i....07 "rj:'J'?/"l~ ~~ ~~- I ,,- ,0; /. , r <.7') ,----~, ~ /J-<:. P -J-( ,-' "-1 . ,;\ -J .'-' u/c-"(_,,, 947 /,cd:.A-L""-L&" a~.2A. '-J~gO 8-06 ~~~. /dJJ/~M'/~~ ;(55 ~(]/71 + JDuir' 2D2 h ~cJ!0v l3/dg , (:0/ tJ d h 5d~..J :;; L d ~I /, I I IV ~,~~ ~~~~~ cxL c, ,;;i .w k.-, O( .1,<;) jg'9G e~u;L_ ek .' I ;(77":; O/tK- CfCO'T DR' Vt- I J5.s{),~ "~.JI!'f 3&"YO ..silJl u _i,l; ::};::;:;;~ ~ j/ f (l.-L~K'-" ....7- 1;Vq,{:; tdAvn/g~ 7 () -1 r:l&~.. _ f) ~1~ .~ PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , ..- ----, ~ fM-o- '/ - J /J ,- . /7;.AJ,~~r..- ---d-n4~/' ~1'~ (,1cUrJvJ 1;7) :/JJr-/ '7~- 1"/ ~ --- ,/1//;.... ~/ ~~~ /~ ,",. (LA-%. <-\.1.1..&":" .'1 ,/ ~ J ~ //,. /-'7 Wf--'7--d.r/ J/':. 0 ? 7[ i9 r//J / V /../ rL-Z4-c-€-L"" I fP 7iJ w~;e'~ ~/. , J(P{Y'7 1L-)~ ~. /(,/5 kkrnoGe j)~VL- / 9 ~ s 5J- ~-t.-u-e. f!/ 31J..!i' ae.1f4/~~ ~. IS /C;/ S- cL//jZ-;- <J/J ~ 35) ?4)~ ~ .:2. c /'{ t.L.--... ~ &'-C)-&A.J~ iVl ).S 7 f C~"~'-I cC" <:.. 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'L~_ AU"--11ov.. ~ , preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset 1il.:~~ ~ ~.. ;Z/~I~p c/' v . . .~. :cd:7&cR- 'C~~o~ '1l1 m Cv~'h ~ 4:~"~!~'7 ~ TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby reques t the City t clock, trees, and plantings. and,should not e destroyed. ( bvll~ L:(Si;it_( preserve the Town Clock Plaza. including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset PETITION TO THE ~l~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroved. Ot;;~.'__ t?~~~ Ol\nr1Y ~lrt, &vue",- JJC~tJ- ~ preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset /057 ~~". ~:J~I \'151 ,j~)..^ ~ ,Me l::ffi. ~~ 17&'5 Ad/Ad ,~i. a(9 ~COI ,. ~ . / '~p~; 7~,~~ ';;4,;:; 5;Q) I , 3 I.>{ V tile /l 1/'. . <Ti (.1Jb..'1~~'" I +I 5 dc' I ' I // ji { .'- ;1/ _\: ~,., I . !?/fO /(.I/lI r.1 (l/XX //1 Az,!J, I;. .S(/) mE)') (ll Y I::. P I.et? a{lf\c) If} 51u)1 ~Po ~~fLf7;j 551~ ~(J>>-.;;jJ tE< .5';lCO,;< 02/6'3 J"'*~F,:UO])r ap,,",ool .)/ '. L!(/(..:h C, :5c:JCJz)/ r-' C' /}t A/}' ~/ -Jf!,p- ~ ~l~~..C'JD 0L\)~,) /1;/2/0 'L(frrn. L 11; J J I t&1* ~ PETITION TO THE ~l~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City or Dubuque. We hereby request the City preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset hould n t be destroyed. . ~/J ~f}d ~;M JJ;JY';j-<' ,tJ~O 6G (p fo =Y;:.u J-r<- (J ~1fC i 'b~--tJ-"( ~~ (A'KO I~ Cloc,L Au.. tf?Ro 7Crv/M ra4'/ Ptfh~ iR eo \)wAJ (iLo(V'I'IA'loA t, <fZJ (~ c/;..J.. / ~/-- ;j; fO >7/jjvn. (j:7~7tC"- 7tit ~ r;so To",,,", (/"C~ Pku;: 0)f{) 7 {fW", r lode fly z q ho JiM; (/fIt Yhzp- ~ 5{i' J OWY1 C/dUL Pla...~ ~.JJt~ClJffl P/t{2r0 'Qr-./ ~ f..ROJ 7C7u)f\ C)oJ<.. p/,,~ (;80 -r;;;...,., (lock fLAzA ~P- ~ 0J- (A","~ ~~~~ t>hHI1)~ (r ( ( r ( , l I ( I; PETITION TO THE ~~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby reques t the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. ~ !!~n;:~. .)~.. ~c..0d preserve the Town Clock Plaza. including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset .,~ , , ';<'.3~L/ ~~~~~ f) I L. ~ /I/v", < /.-\.Tj \ \ "J (Je.,\Jt\'a.v-& Av. 3 ~ I q I d &:> v\'\ ~ ~cdllo Ht' ,.1C... 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We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset IPS? rh-b~y.-c , 7:\~, ~ ;;1"1' " -......- -' / /5 S- 6 /3, I"" "",,1""/ $" b~... 5/ _..,/;, <va 7:"",~,/ 'd.:')., ~ S Cf Ir1 VI j 1..., ~ t!o( ILb. /a :bbcY I /0 20 K::jJ JF ~ f'J //IJ It) (" t?t5p 99-58 G//\Jc.,eK.. P,PG~ '1)Uguo<Yz,J /700 \C-BAIlC \Jib.. De.. :;('~ :? ( IJ. ,:2. f~\V1"~.7 Lf ~ 1 i<;, :'J ,_x j 1/20 f) ,.0..,/r' 77 . t..~ ," " ~.."' --.'. (~< (': -- -/ J /' Pc,','::;'c,,.,-I- 'vb S"2d0 d --'~-'_._-"-' J..) I ;( /lr -:: g)Xctr~p> Jl~ fldt/ >. r;.....Jv,;... .#//<.. , 75110 ~;J()I, P.d x() '"":?JJo 'Neu,'Oi'~ , LA! I Z7tt/ /#/vkJ.'-. ~~ J:;if 2- I.Jt; tJ i. 1 ;;'Ir.I~q- /2-,.--4 ~.\k:..".' . PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. the and hereby reques t the City trees, and plantings. not be ~)10yed. C S/m.--' preserve the Town Clock Plaza. including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset ",<'<:, / /1 .;.._ /'/"!./ /"1176i'/7/1/ 51 391tJ (!.u6... aJ",lI.L A1Or-/ .&'"~CY........ ..e-'l!d //1/// y /2L/I,J f)A-, "2.7'731, bteQA"'""At 'r -4..\ r ' ' .......... / 7/7 r:..AJ€ Sr. 9,"1\6 \<'(""1'.0 _ ~8o ~.,. ,L 1/0 ~." . PETITION TO THE ~l~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including the clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset and should not be destroyed. )q~~ , Ji=~5;}OdJ &80 0J;11 {!locJic/l~ J~1}52[[J 1 0~O Y:vAJ c!o~ PkZC0D&PI/t-JXJO( (aD MU);{ ClrrJ< fld7C! A1;1lf ~ I 0h 0 1 ~ ~ ~JJ() Q :rrr 5".16'" .3 I'll, 4( ~.-( U4k-, IU...L (;,d5'O (<>v" cr'-de f>lq~. D!?c>?J-.'v/ J"'.)ool (,\(1) 7D oJ il e(.cf,... P4 -zq... _ ?Is- I~ (!..I0rk fY~ &30 ' /6.. _"'- (!j6<!.:/:: ;:'//2"7 a. PETITION TO THE ~l~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby reques t the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should no be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset 1.0 ? 0 TC WfJ CL DCK fJ Utllf / I I ' /1 [, " " 1\ (. '-, " {, I, 'I II // 1 l' \ " I I 9:--d; J( ~~ 411ol~_lfmm<'rm~ ~\ u . ( (' I' II PETITION TO THE ~l~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby reques c the City che clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza. including We believe the plaza is a valuable assec 4' :!~d ~_~~. ^ t ,0 1. .?r7. ./i ,<1# :K.. ' j~ 1r4 ", } 1v6fJ ~hd2r!u ~ , JY'?r' 17->6 ~/^-Rio, flhh) ~_ ~7:fJ;;; P~~D~ :) J) ') RVl'r'G'.'<r ,<&-(k"" (<f. L' 5/S ~ .u /lA, , I:' 35 c:.-'/-/c.'('-'<"'tl J_t-- ~ il '. th lJ~ tA- ~ t TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including the clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset and should not be destroyed. : JJ-tC~~ fYL(j}I/'__-f~~~ -' lc& IOWI'I C\crL P\['-L~ ~'{'0-~..\~1.Q~ .J 6f)D I ~ln CD.CCL \1Qi'fU (.(' ~U Iv cu" C-\OLK. \\~H"- to;ro J% J",-- ~1i ~~~ . f) ~ il)' .' L7 ? \')( J ' . LJ[i/r j, (y/? ) v:.~J..</~ ~,{; 0 r~, t. . ~ < ..-- /J// /) /j,!/ , (7 to ~ a(.." C-~k' l __7----G. L.?D lULu K. L {loch ,j) 01-7 C.' 7 . l,x:c~ <-(~A (J,--<-l { Pk7-Z;i- (,Eo ~-1'/T/:J (}/<</11:1'1-,:/ ~6CJ1C\ U/\ (' l('ctC(l~ G&) Tuu,>y-... (1odc' \:Y,,<,2C,"- TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including the clock, trees, and plantings. We believe the plaza is a valuable asset and should not be destroyed. ) 4k-~ f-..<- ti.~~~<-.L"-<_ S.. ~o~'" '~-1(-i~ ;.;;.,;1 ,::,- P.:-t-~,-,,^- 61",. lJ-<<LrL~" {"RO -rc,wn. ('Jock PIG2("<. lflD 10WVl (:AndL. -;f)(o.::cet... (PSO IGLDf'-. Q.-l{.LA..~ A!-A..z. t'''--' b;('CI 'JO~v'l doc/:. t4/ti.'?<1 l ,b -r:...~.", dc<\<., r!~ '2 {}- fo ?cD, ?;SN 5Y', (~(}:" pJ~J'" (, Yc) ;Z;;Z;-71) {:/.; d1., .p~~ Iv ID lOuUV\, L~lX-K FIQ.~ ' 10 u 7/, /<...""L ('-ioe{<- (J~ j 'I. . r 'oJ4' {;; fJ 0 - I #Uh<... ('...L,,-c /L 1!4-y- 19~r) I(JlA.r--y-) (Q ,',-r iJ? Pj~y^ PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby reques t the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. 't 'j Jil>uJ....- l preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , a i;?J a7' /' ~ ~ () T Or<'~-r ,C/O" k P/o..-~ t? .... ;J 7;:l") {J.Yh:yj-1/ triliii J (xi:! -~f\ C/",-k fiST, (.,150 ~'"'- (' ~~ ~'-- G'60, "\!"n 10.)""" C' Q 1) '::"~ 0luOCU lc5JY~M '-~ '? \ \r ~ J: flQ ~>-/ (9S"@ W~"'C~..k_, tl'. :5" It ~~0 c . C1 Z6- ~ {JJf'J;(;;c~, & .?'c-J )o<(;/"} L10c V- l ~~/ " { { ~1:0 ,IA I [-:' " " {oBD'~.t~ <'1 ex- Y'. -=P/a~ TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , (liMN/)- ~ r~J,J.)dr~ , " (\,~) (.!/6d1j). /7/ A /. q.A/J _ tlf.1.~ (:i'W-r-tJz~.,., ~/(71/l JJal-.-~.J r~ ~ /cR4'--tdzA1/ Cf~ ~ [1raJ ~n. <<-- (I' t,(fr, _ ~~~.M'i\I;4 tJ7.ec G C-'\'3"'''''- CUtJ>1- 1!.r{}It/J) J--- (2 (" (~'- C1tA/- '- TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. preserve the Town Clock Plaza. including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , the C}JJ'1 r/ t.LI d<-&-~- fv~/-,u.v ~. .'~ , f".. !,.,." \ ,-' "..! 'J-, \.: -) ~ - <, '!-,. -,- {!!t~4- (\ '111 ffL C c~ ',- / L_ 1f-7fJA (! Irdll i1- C1-6 f}/J. (/1/-Ltt1lJyt . ; TO THE ~~YOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. . an J. fflJA- c5W#,{;1m Mf~ -V' \)(1;Y\ ,~ preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset K /71 . ~ . ~1 Y'I a 11U-7 ~L-t'- <:~;le.> IR!}-!, .fJ- r . / 17""^ (! fC'-r:l- \.Yk:y-" . . a,e;t""7 TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. "! I " ---~, ~ !:::-l;;;:j:, t% I 6 =.1 k\ N~v..'1U1 f11ft1L.1"-' ^ ".'! i" AI' .1':<.( -'.1', / I (,i' .~. , 't' preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset c. -r -~ - l ~g{) ~~AJ/ (0 XO "10M-.) (llcclr (;'io fJft1+) ~") T~ dtd::: (, ~ '\;,~ ~ '080 l()\A_)U\J {' Uc II d'l.J}f7it.-al~ ~~ (OW 1"6WYl_ ----..Yl ~ I 3,.La Fh-t.).j. L- /\ !?J;;j dltjtJt/)'ily Avo Llro ~I.)Af (AnQ)( &. eo "7"O,-J"J ((0 c/-'-.. 12gbVfJurfl(/IJC/( P/acC<../ ~~o ~'-J'- arrA- F?!a.y:- &&J ~ ~d~ fl,8D 7C!'LJ'M ack 'P I ~ (P\?U0~iY\ UnL Pta") (.\. (gf{) "TcrUTrl (We f!&'fJ- / --?,.:c, ;:-, " ' ""'" - ,,- ,:1// _~ _,,"1 ~ ..-! TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. hereby request the City trees, and plantings. ot be destroyed. ~ L..> ~ . preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset I , --- .-............ -- 1i!J001 05/09/00 15:41 FAX 860 534 2272 FINANCIAL SERVICES KenDethA. Pouch Jr. Vice President CIGNA Retirement &; Investment Services R@ CIGNA Mr. Michael C. Van Milligen City Manager The City of Dubuque City Hall, 50 West 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Routing H14A 280 Trumbull Street, Hanio[d,~.06103 Telephone 860.534.3256 Facslmile 860.534.3595 kenneth.poudl @ cigDa.com May 9, 2000 Dear Mr. Van Milligen: I am writing in response to the May 3, 2000 Telel!Iaph-Herald article, ''Main Street Homestretch Welcomed". In the article, Main Street Ltd.'s Director, Dan LoBianco, is quoted as saying that CIGNA has changed its position regarding the reopening of the plaza to accommodate automobile traffic. In fact, CIGNA has not changed its position with regard to this subject. It has been our position, and that of our employees, for at least the last three years that the plaza should remain true to its current use. Our employees at 680 TOWIl Clock Plaza enjoy the ability to have inlmediate access to the plaza and its amenities for lunch and a pleasant change in environment. And they have made very clear that they would like the plaza to remain an integral part of their overall work environment as we plan to occupy our new building later this year. i . Over the past several months we have joined other Dubuque business leaders in an open dialogue on the plaza and participated in exploring the feasibility of alternatives to the proposed plaza plaIls. We have also been very consistent in representing the interest of our employees in these meetings. 1 t As the council prepares to meet on May 15 regarding future plans for the plaza, I WaIlt to make sure that members understand that CIGNA's desire is to maintain aIld enhance the character of the plaza for the continued benefit and enjoyment of its employees. i i , ? i , , I would be happy to discuss this subject further if you wish. Sincerely, Q I ~'v--~ '0' . K~~etr! A~ pouch]r. t Oats . f t Phone"'i5~O $3'4 '3 "2-6'1, Fad 'lS'-O -3 4 ~~.:, " RECF1\/ED May 9, 2000 OOHA'(-9 Pi'l4:33 Citv.'3 Cffice , "L' ,h,] '1'(; IA ',_."-'.......','-''-'1. Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council Members: I wish to express to you my concerns with the Downtown area known as the Town Clock Plaza. The present park-like atmosphere provides beauty and shade for all who venture in this area. I oppose opening the street at all. The new plans for the plaza were presented last year. They were a bit too antiseptic for my taste. There are so many people, from children to senior citizens, who enjoy the plaza. We need to be sure we maintain the pedestrian walkway, picnic tables and benches for all to enjoy the trees, the clock, the businesses, etc. Let's try to keep the plaza in its present park-like condition if at all possible. Respectfully, ,~p~ Alice L. Connor 745 Main Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 ., Robert C. Sullivan 1790 Grace St Dubuque, IA 52001~036 319-583-2185 FAX 319-556-2629 Email sullydbq@earthlink.net May 7, 2000 Mayor Terry Duggan 951 Iowa St Dubuque,U\ 52001 Mayor Duggan: Dubuque has a very nice Plaza. Dubuque has Central Avenue. Should significant tax dollars be spent to make another Central Avenue and destroy a charming environment in our business community? Upgrade the Plaza. Do not destroy it! Sincerely, ! . YlV (?-/~~ Robert C. Sulhvan Q 0 c:> ......J'-< -:... :JJ c:. :r. O' -< ,ll C I '.:J ( <.D . iTl .'- ;:;:::,.,. ~ C~; -- -..... - 25 ill )> -h cl' 0 (l) .c- \.0 ee: City Council members City Manager --- 8 May, 2000 Dubuque City Council City Hall Dubuque, IA. 52001 To Mayor Duggan and the Dubuque City Council: Following the article in the Telegraph Herald regarding the decision to be made about cutting through the plaza for Main Street, we are writing to express our concern and to voice our feelings regarding this decision. As long-time tax-payers, we feel it is a waste of money that could be spent more advantageously elsewhere in the city. Opening 8th street is done (but not completed) and has not improved anything in downtown except congestion and confusion. It has been said opening the street would improve business in the downtown area. The stores that are there are ones people will patronize as is and we feel it should be recognized that the return of stores to downtown would in all probability not happen. Leave it as it is. Opening the street would also destroy a gathering place for the workers in the downtown area. We do feel the plaza could be renovated, but otherwise we want to express our opposition to the opening of the plaza for a through street. Thank you for the opportuity to express our opposition to this proposal. ~z~~ 3047 Kane Ct. Dubuque, lA. 52001 CJV\-itWr c.~p VI 'Silr)nqnCl e'""II(1 <0" . /.10 ......!.;\......." -' ' 9~ :z lid 8- ,l.'i14 00 03^13J38 May 4, 2000 Dear Council Members: Enclosed is a copy of the same letter. The reason for sending two copies is to include Rob Denson's signature. He signed the correspondence via FAX. The rest of the signatures (Mike Van Milligan having the original) were signed in person on April 19, 2000, as dated. We apologize for the delay it forwarding this to you, as we \l/aited for NICe's official endorsement. Should you have any questions or need additional information, please contact me at 588-4400. Sincerely, (~~lY ~~---~ Daniel L. LoBianco Executive Director Cc Mike Van Milligen 0 0 o ,c, a , ~~.:. :::t: :0 c.: c' ~!::I~ CT -.,~. (Tl , I " ',l) D , " So c; -0 '-n C :?::: ~ c- ,J -'~ -~ is> ITl g 0 (D f\.) - 909 Main Street Suite 22LL. Fischer Building Dubuque. Iowa 52001 319-588-4400 April 19, 2000 Dear Mayor Duggan & Honorable City Council Members: The undersigned have met in continued discussion regarding the currently tabled issue of Main Street (The Town Clock Plaza) renovation between 5th and 9th Streets. We respectfully request that you authorize sufficient resources on behalf of all citizens of Dubuque to determine the feasibility of the following questions/considerations: I. Is it actually feasible for the area described above to be returned to a street? If so, we request as much detail as possible as to the type of street that could be constructed (i.e. width, intersections, turnouts, parking capabilities, as well as w..'o-way/on':."-way options). 2. Is it possible to create a campus/park-like area next to the NICC building (between the current Trilog/Cigna building and NICC)? 3. Is it possible to create a park-like area in close proximity to the future Cigna building, either through the development of the current vacant green-space on the Manchester Group property, managed by the Ryan company, or on a portion of the current parking lot (#10) across Main Street from the Cigna development? 4. Would a scenario allowing for the closure of Main Street between 5th & 8th Streets for a portion of each weekday be worth consideration? We believe if the above questions/considerations can be thoroughly explored, that a consensus among all stakeholders is achievable. We also request the council authorize the appropriate staffmember(s), contractor(s) and/or consultant(s) to provide sufficient detail/visuals to allow this diverse group, and ultimately all stakeholders, to evaluate the potential of said scenarios. The intention is to work with this information and materials to determine if some kind of consensus can be achieved to satisfy stakeholders' needs. Sincerely, ~~ 1::d;:~' President Presiden1!Chief Executive Officer \~~&~::>?/~,// Kenneth Pouch Nicholas J. Schrup III Vice President President & Chief Executive Officer Cigna Retirement American Trust & Savings Bank & Investment Services ,Y 11 --/ /7;1'.. (~/h-r<A C'\ C?.J6?:-_. Daniel L. LoBianco Executive Director Dubuque Main Street Scott Schneider for Robert Denson President NICC cc: Mike Van Milligen 909 Main Street Suite 22LL, Fischer Building Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Fax 319-588-0654 e-mail: dbQmainst@mwcLnet 319-588-4400 MAY-01-2000 16:29 NICC April 19. 2000 319 562 3719 P.01 ~ jitl 1?/~;a'''- 1li-c;,-r- tJ''''S- Dear Mayor Duallll &: Honorable City CDllDCiI Mer nbers: TIle undersigaed have mel in COI1tiDued disclllSioo I"auding!be cumnl!y tabled issue of Main StreeI (The Town Clock PI&A) renovation benI._ '''1114 9'" S reelS. We respectfully request thaI you Ill'dIori.r:c sufficim resources OD bcbaIf of aU citUcu.s of Dubuque to cIeletmine the f-unJity of the fo1lowins quea!ioQS/. OII!idcrations: I. Is it actually feasible foIthe area desc, ibed abov. to be returned 10 > slreel? If so, we request as much deIIil as possible as 10 the ty: .. of _ thaI cculd be c01lStNcted (i.e. wid1b, in1erseetioDs. tumOUlJ, parking capabrities, u wen u two-waY/One-wa)' options). 2. Is it possible to CTea1e a campuslpark-1ike area 1ICO<1 to the NlCC buildiDll (bctw_the ewmtt Trilog/CigDa builcliug lmd NI< C)? 3. Is it possible to create a park-like area in clo.. ptoltimity to the lIIt\IrC CigDa building, ei1her through tha developJuem of the CIllmII "_I gnell-space 0JI1he MmdIest.. GFoup property, mauaged by the Ryau compn)', Dr on > portion of the cumntparking lot (tIlO) aclO5i MIlD SlreOt &om the Cigua dr, elOJllllOllt? 4. Would a lCOIIario allowing for tha clo ure of MaiD Slreet betw_ S'" " 86 Streets for . portiQll of each weekday be worth cor lideratiou? We believe iftha allo"e qucstioQS/COIlSidenotious ClIJ be thoroughly explored, !bat. COIlSelllU8 arJlOIIg all slab:holdetw is acbievable. We abo request !he cOUDcil authorize tire appIQptiat. statrmember{s), contractol(s) aIldIar cOlISubant{s) to ptovide sufficient delaiIIvisuaJs 10 allow this divers. gIOup.lIId ullimarely all stakebolclers, to evallJl\le the poteIItjaj of slid SCCDarios. The in1ention is 10 work '.lith this iufonnation lIIld materials 10 deIermiuc if some Iciud of consamus can be achieved to satisfy Sf J:eholden' Deeds. Sine=ly, Johu E. Butler Presidenl Cottingham II: Butler, Inc. ~~. RlchanI J. Barl ill President/Chief I ;xccutive Officer Hania: Drug SID os \b.t7~rt Vice Presideut Cigna letU=en1 it Iuvestmeot S....i... N'lChoIu J. Seh 'lIP m Presido..l " Chi, f Excc:uti". Ofticer American Trull ,k SaYIngs Bank cc: Mike Van MilJigeu e~o(~~ DIJIieI L. LoBbaco Eltecuti\'e Direclor Dubuque MaiD Street ~L for Roben D_ President NICC -.. 909 MaIn Street Butte 22LL, Flscber BUIldl;!lI Dubuque. Iowa 52001 Fax 319-588-6654 e-mail: dbQmaluU@mWCi.oet -- 319-588-<f400 TOTAL P.01 - STAR UNIFORMS 736 TOWN CWCK PLAZA DUBUQUE, IOWA 52001 (319) 582-3440 1-800-851-5535 rzJ.mfO'lln dtead9ua'Cteu fo. o11en and <'Women Hay 4, 2000 Ci ty (1f Dubuque % City Hnnager; I,ir. Van Uilligan City Hall ~Jubuque, Ie'da 52001 Dear Hr. Van Hilli,gan: I arn vrriting to ycu in rcguards te. my })osition on the cpc;ning cf Hatn .~':rr:c-(: in -:-:he TC~:ln CJc'c1c Plaza. I cn-.:'l1 J,~JK; prcp(~rt"iE.~s a 730-736 in '(ho plaza. fer tIle past fifteen years. One part of the building i.s used fer my business, ,j'~::(J.r Uniform;3, ~].nd "::}'H3 c\h(Jr par-!:-. is ren;:,(:":d cui::. I have n()c b",:~el1 able; tc- rcll" cut :_:11C one :3ide 3'- a rea:3cnal:>.le rell'::: f()r a long lc.ng time. I ha\l8 a seccnd floc.r space t:hat I can not see.m t.O rent.: cu.;_. Hos' (~,f our .cust.:cmer s T,iC !1ave as~'~ed do nei; like the plaza, but. 'Iould prefer a s',:reet in 'di' h parking met.ers. They li;~e the idea of par'dng in front or near our sr.,ore. It would be to best interest te have !che si:r'~eL c>pened up. I would apprecia'l:e this lct~:cr being passed on to ":he city council for their May 15th meeting. TIlank yeu very much. 'n~~~ Jad: Jtuer STli.R UNH'ORMS a ~I _co. C0 C LL! Cr. O'l -:;t- 52 Q,) (,) :1"'-<:( ci~ -~..:j gf ...~- "'"- "'" 0'. I ;>.. ~- ::c a <:::> "- ~~/ ~ c'-. -~':./ -2:.,(5 o May 8, 2000 Honorable Mayor and City Council Members c/o City Clerk City Hall 50 W. 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Dear Mayor and Council Members: I am writing in regard to the proposal that will be coming before you to increase the speed limit on Pennsylvania Avenue. I am opposed to this increase, if you lived on this street I think you would also be opposed. The traffic has increased a great deal over the years and now is not the time to invite this increased traffic to increase their speed. We have a school and a park in this neighborhood which means many children walk to school or to the park. I am aware that there is a traffic light for them to use to cross near the school and park. But children being children they do not all cross at this traffic light. It is also very difficult for persons with driveways on Pennsylvania to enter and exit their drives, the hilly terrain is also a factor which would be compounded by an increased speed limit. I'm aware the speed limit is higher from Kennedy Road west, but there are left turning lanes and the lane going west becomes two lanes around Hempstead. I appreciate the time you devote to the City and all the good things you do. I would be even happier if you would deny this increase in the speed limit. If a petition is necessary let me know and I will make an effort to secure the names of people on this section of Pennsylvania. Sincerely, ~~I<.~ Joyce R. Kirk 2960 Pennsylvania Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Ifl 'c:n:)llqnO 881iJO S . fH8 S (I :OIIW 6 - A ln~ 00 03/\i:lJ:Ji:J 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 15, 2000 Ruth McDonald called and asked that I pass on to the Mayor and Council that she has no vested interest in Dubuque; however, she is visiting from Northern California and thinks the Plaza should be open to traffic w/parking. Thinks the City should go around to other small cities to see how they have handled the situation. 'ill 88111n .,. .~- '-- ,.,] ';"\'- '\l!8 SZ :2 ~!d S I )V~1 00 031\13;)3d - TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should ot be destroyed. i \ --.. preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset a/eIJ~-:~/L (2.-::;-; ~!?;d2~ j/rn cJ) 'Yv1~A '- TO THE MAYOR AND DUBUQUE CITY COUNCIL: PETITION We the undersigned hereby petition the City of Dubuque. I' I We hereby request the City the clock, trees, and plantings. and should not be destroyed. "~ ?}f~ i'~<:() ~~-- ~~_.. --- _kID~\ '",'lY\~,:)..,,---, "' J .,.- preserve the Town Clock Plaza, including We believe the plaza is a valuable asset f\ ","1u: Ir:n lA Q. -.blJjl1 .tIr....~~. )Z~~h~_a~ -f;}J~ Y~Q/~ /{bz. ff~ft'}- ~a: ~ ) L- ;/~2?--- ~ __ ",~=-'L {ji1" k Jr~1 kCl'fT'-v'4"-" ~ ~" \!) .:') '--' "n\-",,,nQ \j\ G\\"pl"'''''\" 8()1\\O S '.:)c:\'J fWJ gt, :Z \Id \ \ h~vl no 03J\\3838 . 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I , "'0 I.L (\'11<:.., W(1(t._ Q C) C,) n< :r.\;. :0 (-~ n -< in CT (1'1 C) C (.'1 " , ion ; ?:;1.. ,- 0 -01_ ~ j; '11 c:..;. 0 co' G) t'J tD May 12,2000 Dubuque City Council Members City of Dubuque 50 West 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4864 Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council Members: While we at Main Street know you are receiving a number of pieces of communication in regard to the Town Clock Plaza issue, we do believe we have pertinent information to add which was gathered in research since January of this year. Enclosed you will find a couple reports on communities throughout the naiion who have recently dealt with plaza issues. The first report is a "white paper" written by National Main Street staff in the mid- 90s. The second report includes synopses of discussions I had since January with downtown managers (in some cases other Main Street directors), chamber directors, city officials, and downtown business owners. (Some of these reports are updates on communities discussed in the white papeL) I must say, my resolve that the opening of the Main Street stretch of the plaza is the best answer to our tabled matter was greatly strengthened through my study. Without too much redundancy, I would like to point out a common thread amongst the findings. A good mix of office, retail, entertainment, and residential opportunities, by Main Street philosophy, makes for the healthiest downtown. We believe, and our communication with the other communities reaffirms, the connection of and circulation throughout all downtown districts is crucial and cannot be fully realized with a four-block impediment at the center of our Main Street. While office workers, including the gentleman to whom I spoke in Kalamazoo, have initially been reluctant or opposed to losing the pedestrian mall, the end result receives positive reviews. We cannot make retail, residential or entertainment promises with the opening of Main Street, but the track records of so many similar projects indicate there is a real chance for enhanced revitalization. Another eye-opening experience occurred when we really looked at the usage numbers of our Town Clock Plaza. When we are generous with our time estimates and say the plaza is highly utilized between the weekday hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., from April through September; and we add in all the time "festivals" are in the plaza, we are still only speaking of six percent of all time. When we conducted informal counts during April and early May, we actually found on the nicest days the "crowd" really does not arrive until well after II a.m., and is virtually gone by I :30 p.m. (See the block-by-block photos enclosed, taken at approximately 1:10 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, 2000, one of the two beautiful weekdays we experienced in April.) We had a relatively cool and rainy April. There were only two weekdays when a majority of the 29 tables on the plaza were being used on the noon hOUL There were some days when there were less than a half dozen pedestrians occupying the plaza, with none seated, at the height of the noon-hour. So far, May has probably been fairly typical. The first week was predominantly beautiful and 29 tables were quite full for a couple hours. This second week, however, has been rain-filled. There has not been a great deal of activity out there, and Tuesday, when they rain cleared by 10 a.m., and although it was quite overcast, temperatures were pleasant, we still saw very few people out from 10 -2. 909 Main Street Suite 22LL, Fischer BuUdlng Dubuque, Iowa 52001 319-588-4400 An overall picture from year to year requires us to keep in mind the plaza is not well utilized, even at lunch time, during our six cold weather months (picnic tables are not even out); during some chilly days throughout April, May and September; during rainy days at any time of the year; and is quite empty on those dog days of 80+ degree weather in July and August. Finally, outside of the lunch hour, we need to realize, for whatever reason, the plaza is scantily used, at best. I must add a narrative in this section where we defend our position that the nice-weather, lunchtime crowd is not enough justification for a closed plaza. Last summer, when Stephanie Nelson (rhe Town Clock Inn) turned down our no-fee offer to have a cart/table on the plaza after her 8th Street kiosk was removed in July, I made a similar offer to D&D Footlongs (the hotdog vendor at the comer of Washington Park). He did not desire to come on the plaza to sell to the 2000+ employees there. Our offer was turned down last year and this year. He believes the employees will fmd him where he is located, and he enjoys the benefits of the drive-by exposure at 7th & Locust. Even when you add in the entire time festivals occupy the Town Clock area, the end-result is that the plaza is suitably occupied well below six percent of all time. Speaking of festivals, we also want to dispel the notion that the reopening of the plaza to a street will be the "death knell" for our current festivals, the most popular being Dubuque. . . & All That Jazz. Whether or not we open the plaza, our celebrations under the Town Clock will NOT move from the intersection of 7th & Main Streets. As has been stated before, we sponsor Jazz as an after work mixer, an occasion to bring other Dubuque residents and visitors down to the heart of our city for a musical and entertaimnent opportunity not commonly available, and a chance for people to experience a wide variety of food from Dubuque vendors. We conclude our city-center events at 9 p.m. to enable participants to patronize and enjoy other downtown nightspots. In other words, we do not have the events at the Town Clock just because there is a stage at that location. Our plans for the festivals with an open street would be to bring in a temporary stage, and close the street to traffic for these short periods of time. We have a nice history of successful events on temporarily closed streets in the Historic Old Main Event, the Cable Car Square Chili Cook-off, and our Farmers' Market. Many other neighborhoods in Dubuque have demonstrated how quality gatherings, called block parties, can be held on barricaded streets. We believe it would be foolish and selfish on our part to support the status quo of a closed plaza for these events that represent less than one percent of all time. I would also like to briefly address the notion of the plaza as a business park. We do agree Dubuque has a somewhat unique situation with the success of much of our plaza as office space. When we think of and research business parks per se, however, we see photos of groups large office buildings surrounding surface parking and drive areas, with some nice outdoor public courtyards, not unlike what many envision as the end result of our South Tech Park in Key West. We have not found any examples of such parks closing over four blocks of former street to achieve the park, and we also cannot find an example of a city spending a few million dollars to refurbish a downtown plaza to convert to a business park. The research we did do, again referring to the attached report, includes examples of plazas that were opened and have had large office buildings succeed on and around the open street. These include Kalamazoo, Sioux Falls, Eugene, and Pittsburgh. We also look at arguably the two most successful cities in Iowa with financial office buildings, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, and observe that they have succeeded without closing off streets. We again acknowledge the various constraints downtown employees face can be neutralized by some nice outdoor, public space. You have received comnnmication on OUf and others' desire to explore the development and maintenance of this type space off Main Street. We also again emphasize the fact that a good portion of the building owners who have this type office space advocate an open Main Street. Then we look at the other buildings on our plaza (Jack Steur's Star Uniform Building, the Graham Building, the Steele Building, the Hartig Drug Building, the Walker Shoe Building, and even the Firstar Mall Building). These buildings do not lend themselves to large, multi-story office complexes. What becomes of these buildings if our retailers and small offices decide to move out due to a long- term commitment to a closed plaza? We have had indication a number of these structures could be on the market with such a scenario. I suppose these buildings could be replaced with ones containing volume for large office businesses; however, under the four-point Main Street philosophy, we would have to look long and hard at supporting that type of restructuring. Finally, I want review thoughts on my study of the LOR International, Inc. circulation report of October 1995. Having read this study a few times over the past four months, it is difficult to ignore the fact the "existing conditions" had three "pros" and eleven "cons," while opening Main and leaving 7th Street closed received the eight strongest "pros" and only four "cons." (fwo of the "cons" could be eliminated in that I believe we could keep the Town Clock where it is located and I have not found many people who consider losing the non-functional fountain and the current sculpture as a negative.) In conclusion, Main Street reiterates its position requesting the council seriously consider a design to reopen the Main Street portion of our plaza, while exploring some quality public space for our downtown employees. ;jrelY'/7 ~~ C/(J ~-<f?/7/"--;;;Z Daniel L. LoBianco Executive Director cc: Mike Van Milligen ,-., AN INFORMATION BRIEF ON DOWNTOWN PEDESTRIAN MALLS APRlL, 1995 PREPARED By: AMANDAB. WEST PROGRAM ASSOCIATE FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES NATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER@ NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 1785 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20036 DOWNTOWN PEDESTRIAN MALLS: BACKGROUND, STATUS AND ANALYSIS Background In the 1960s and 1970s, many communities in the United States and other nations spent millions of dollars constructing downtown pedestrian malls, closing their main streets either totally or partially to automobile traffic. Unfortunately, most communities found that their new pedestrian malls did nothing to revitalize their downtown commercial districts. In fact, in many instances, the pedestrian malls accelerated the downtown's decline. Today, many of these communities are reevaluating whether to keep or remove their downtown pedestrian malls; nearly 100 have already done so. But, just as the construction of a pedestrian mall did not bring about an economic revival downtown, simply removing an existing pedestrian mall is not likely to do so, either. The success or failure of a downtown commercial district is dependent on much more than the simply whether its main street is closed or open to cars -- as those communities whose pedestrian malls are thriving can attest. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the majority of pedestrian malls were built in the United States, downtown merchants were facing myriad problems brought about through major changes in the retailing industry - changes which were, in turn, brought about through major changes in transportation and land use planning. Downtown retailing did not decline because people preferred the pedestrian-oriented spaces of shopping mall; it declined because suburban malls created more retail space in the community than the community's residents could realistically support. Shopping malls were new and were tenanted with chain stores up to date on consumer preferences and economic trends - information which few downtowns were well enough organized to collect, interpret or use. Traditional commercial districts simply didn't have the resources to compete - and, with an excess of commercial space available in the community, downtown retailing suffered. How pedestrian malls change the economy of the downtown commercial district Downtown pedestrian malls are much more dependent on consumers in the immediate vicinity than main streets open to auto and pedestrian traffic, which inherently attract more auto-oriented consumers. Therefore, a pedestrian mall changes the economy of the downtown commercial district in which it is installed in two fundamental ways: 1) by shrinking the district's market base from the overall community to the downtown commercial district itself, and 2) by shifting the district's retail focus from comparison and destination goods/services to convenience goods/services (or to goods and services that appeal specifically to the "captive" market in the immediate vicinity of the pedestrian mall - such as in downtowns whose pedestrian malls immediately abut a college or university and whose businesses cater almost exclusively to college students). National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 1 In almost all instances, the result has been to reshape the market base of a downtown commercial district from a community-wide market to a market consisting primarily of downtown office workers and residents of adjacent neighborhoods. In order to rebuild the downtown's economic base, the district's retail development strategy must therefore rely heavily on convenience purchases made by workers and residents of the immediate vicinity (or specialized purchases by another captive market group such as nearby college students or people traveling through a heavily-trafficked transit stop on or adjacent to the pedestrian mall). If the concentration of workers, residents, commuters or others downtown is not great enough to support a cluster of convenience-related businesses sufficient to fill the available downtown buildings, the district will suffer from the pedestrian mall's presence. If, however, the concentration of downtown workers and residents is sufficient to support a sizable cluster of convenience businesses, the pedestrian mall may, in fact, enhance the downtown's economy. The success or failure of a pedestrian mall also depends, in part, on the community's overall attitudes towards cars and car-ownership. Communities whose residents are highly automobile- dependent and who, therefore, expect to be able to find parking convenient to the businesses they wish to visit are much less likely to patronize pedestrian malls than communities whose residents have a strong preference for -- and habit of -- using public transportation, bicycles, or walking. Downtown pedestrian malls work well, for instance, in some Central and South American and European cities where gas prices are high and cars are expensive and heavily taxed, but pedestrian malls in corresponding town centers in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- where automobile ownership is more affordable -- languish. The importance of comprehensive retail management Ultimately, the decision about whether or not to remove a pedestrian mall must be made on reliable market projections and a sound market strategy appropriate for the traditional commercial district, not on a design decision to try to enliven or animate a street. The "big fix" appeal of a pedestrian mall's construction in the United States was a sign of the retail times in the 1970s, fueled by the availability of federal Urban Renewal funds for public improvements _ but making that mistake twice by assuming that the pedestrian mall's removal will bring back those customers is an equally flawed assumption. A newly reopened main street, with maintained or removed landscaping, repaired sidewalks, etc. usually enjoys a brief period of popularity due merely to its novelty, but the long-term success of the downtown's existing businesses and ofthe overall economic base of the commercial district will depend on sound retail management, effective marketing, and a well-planned strategy to attract new economic uses for the district's buildings. Given the surplus of commercial space in the United States and some other western cities today and the profound changes in the retailing industry brought about by the advent of discount superstores and the expansion of direct mail marketing, every downtown commercial district must have a solid retail management strategy in place in order to maintain the district's economic viability. For traditional commercial districts with pedestrian malls, the importance of using solid National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 2 downtown retail management practices and having a realistic retail development plan is doubly important _ a fact born out by the remaining pedestrian malls still intact today, such as in Denver, Colorado and Santa Monica, California, whose mixed successes are due to very aggressive retail management and development programs. There were three general objectives that motivated cities in the United States to convert their central business areas to pedestrian malls, but rarely were these objectives met through the pedestrian mall's construction. Communities considering deconstructing a pedestrian mall should consider the same objectives and evaluate whether the mall's removal will fulfill them: 1) Attracting and maintaining prosperous stores, banks, restaurants, industries and professional businesses. The distance shoppers must walk to get from residences or businesses to the pedestrian mall retail area is extremely important to the pedestrian mall's economic viability. Is the market there,physically, in the vicinity of the pedestrian mall? If shopping is within a three to five minute walk of consumers' offices or homes, they may make more convenience-oriented purchases downtown (such as dry cleaning, drug store items, lunch time eating, banking, etc.). If the shops are eight to ten minutes' walk away, they are less likely to make an effort to visit the commercial district. Evaluating the magnitude and characteristics of potential shoppers within a five-minute walk is critical to the decision about whether or not to remove a pedestrian mall. 2) Improving the area's appeal for consumers outside the immediate vicinity. Does the district have a comprehensive management program in place that truly provides an appropriate retail mix and a unique shopping environment, and that creates a "sense of place" for the downtown area? In order to attract customers other than those in the downtown's immediate vicinity, the downtown area must be "worth the trip" by providing good retail choices and a pleasurable overall experience. With major retail malls outside every major city saturating the market for "comparison" goods and services, downtowns usually require a cohesive cluster of good restaurants, shops with unusual merchandise, and top-notch entertainment and special events to attract consumers outside the downtown's five-minute walking radius from which it can usually draw customers for convenience-oriented purchases. Downtown management must provide what suburban mall management programs already provide: an appropriate mix of businesses and services, appropriate store hours, and a safe, well-lit, well-signed environment. 3) Enabling pedestrians to move more safely, easily and quickly through the retail area, giving them a separate place apart from moving vehicles. Just as suburban shopping malls would not likely succeed if customers could not reach them by car, downtown commercial districts must be easily accessible. If car access is eliminated, transit to the area must be frequent, comfortable, accessible, and fast. Parking must be adequate, attractive and uncongested. For walkers, sidewalks and approach routes should also be attractive and welcoming, not 'second class' to the auto access areas. Maintenance must be kept up on all physical elements of the area to ensure a welcoming image. National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 3 '. PEDESTRIAN MALL CASE STUDIES The following examples show how communities have reacted to mitigate the decline of their downtown pedestrian mall areas through one of the three following approaches: v keeping mall intact and intensifYing retail development and management efforts, v partially restoring auto traffic, either by removing one or more blocks of the pedestrian mall or by opening the pedestrian mall to vehicular traffic at certain hours or both; or V total removal of the pedestrian mall. COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE LEFT PEDESTRIAN MALLS INTACT: Denver, Colorado: Since its 1982 construction, Denver's 16th Street pedestrian mall has been successful in reducing traffic congestion and attracting pedestrians, but has fallen short of reviving downtown as a shopping area. It has had major competition since its construction from area shopping malls. For example, since the city's Cherry Creek mall expanded in 1990, retailing in businesses on the 16th Street mall has declined between 20% and 30%. The area has seen a number of building rehabilitation projects as well as new construction, but has also seen three major buildings fall into dilapidation from failed retail or mixed-use development plans. Although many stores originally present when the mall opened area have closed, many others have taken their place. The downtown area's primary market group remains downtown workers, but a cluster of new microbreweries, the rehabilitation of a historic hotel, and recruitment of a group of new restaurants in the southern part of the downtown have begun to attract other area residents. In 1992 the city created a special assessment district downtown to provide funds for the district's ongoing management. Downtown Denver Partnership, Denver, CO Cape May, New Jersey Downtown Cape May has been successful in keeping its four-block pedestrian mall economically viable by shifting its retail emphasis to target tourists. The community originally built the pedestrian mall to revitalize its sagging downtown economy, but, as in many other communities, found that the mall shrunk the downtown's effective market area, and traditional downtown retailers gradually moved or closed. In the late 1980s the community adopted a different market strategy for the downtown, recruiting a cluster of businesses appealing to the seaside resort's seasonal tourists which could serve as a magnet to draw visitors into the downtown area. In many ways, the strategy's success is unique to Cape May and may not be easily transferrable to other communities: Cape May's tourists tend to spend less time on the beach or in boardwalk stores than visitors to other nearby New Jersey ocean resort communities (such as Wildwood) National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 4 and spend more time browsing, shopping and visiting historic sites. Also, Cape May's success is only partial: in spite of aggressive promotion, tourism remains a summertime seasonal market here, and many downtown businesses close during the winter months. Nonetheless, the decision to reposition the downtown's businesses to attract a readily-available market segment, rather than to remove the pedestrian mall and attempt to reestablish the downtown as a shopping place for area residents, has so far paid off. Other communities which have left their pedestrian malls intact: Burlington, Vermont Ithaca, New York Salisbury, Maryland COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE MODIFIED THEIR PEDESTRIAN MALLS: Santa Monica, California: In 1961, Santa Monica closed its historic main street to traffic and created a three block pedestrian shopping mall that met with little success as a retail district or a community gathering place. Using the managed street concept, the city converted its moribund mall into the Third Street Promenade, a thriving retail and entertainment district that attracts more then 10,000 people on an average weekend. The redesign was funded by a $13 million bond issue that leveraged $200 million in private investment and economic life for the downtown business district. For the success of the managed retail program, it was "absolutely critical to make sure relevant parties - the tenants, property owners and citizens - were involved from the very beginning. This was not a pro-forma participation, but genuine involvement of key players, which includes the public," notes city manager John Jalili. The result was broad-based community consensus on the need to redevelop Third Street - and on the development's direction: to open the pedestrian area to automobiles at certain times, an approach used successfully by many town centers in the United Kingdom. During times of low pedestrian use, the roadway is open to two way traffic with a speed limit of 10 miles per hour; during high pedestrian use, the road is closed to auto traffic. Currently, the roadway is open Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. A barrier closes the street to traffic on weekends, when an estimated 10,000 people congregate on the Promenade. The design and management of the street allows cafes and restaurants to expand onto the sidewalk adjacent to private property. As a result, Third Street has developed one ofthe most significant concentrations of outdoor dining in California. The city has developed guidelines and design standards to ensure restaurants do not privatize the public space or manipulate the informal interaction the encroachment allows with pedestrians. Santa Monica also encourages housing development adjacent to the area by permitting twice as much floor area for mixed-use projects as would be allowed for purely commercial purposes. The success of the Third Street Promenade was dependent on public-private partnerships: a special assessment district taxes property owners in the district, with proceeds paying off the bond which was issued to pay for National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 5 '. the redesign. Revenues from the tax district, along with other fees, have allowed the Bayside District Corporation, the organizing entity behind Third Street Promenade, to maintain the Promenade's high quality image and retail management program. Bayside District Corporation, Santa Monica, California Burlington, Iowa Built in the late I 970s, Burlington, Iowa's pedestrian mall encompassed only two blocks along Jefferson Street, the community's main downtown thoroughfare. One of the two blocks converted to pedestrian mall was adjacent to the city's Mississippi River waterfront; the other, several blocks west, was one ofthe downtown's best-tenanted retail blocks. Within ten years, however, retail vacancies on the western block had skyrocketed to nearly 80 percent. The city reopened the western block to automobile traffic. Main Street of Burlington, Inc., the downtown management organization, implemented a retail development plan focusing on tourism-related commerce on the remaining pedestrian mall block (adjacent to the River) and on rebuilding basic retail goods and services to the western block which had been reopened to cars. Within two years, the western block was once again fully occupied and businesses on the waterfront block had begun offering goods and services catering to both downtown workers and to tourists (including a camera store, several restaurants, and a bicycle shop). Main Street oj Burlington, Inc., Burlington, Iowa Little Rock, Arkansas: Little Rock built a six-block, cross-shaped pedestrian mall in its downtown area in 1977. After ten years, the city found that it wasn't attracting visitors like it had anticipated. In 1986, the city commissioned a study to determine the causes of its decline and to outline some potential solutions. The two main factors contributing to the downtown's failure, the study said, were lack of access and lack of visibility. "It told us that [the pedestrian mall] was too big for the area, and too cluttered with beautiful things." says Sterling Cockrill, of the Downtown Partnership. "There were too many things that people could hide behind, so there were safety issues." The city began planning for to redesign the pedestrian mall and reopened five of the six blocks in 1991, leaving one exactly as it was. The opened blocks were redesigned with narrow streets and parking, but wide sidewalks - "a pedestrian area accessible by cars," describes Cockrill. Planters, benches and receptacles were saved and reused on the sidewalk area, and trees were added. Some business has gradually returned, according to Cockrill (although the district still has a relatively high vacancy rate) and the auto traffic returned almost immediately. "We instantly got a positive reaction to opening up Main Street again," says Cockrill. "We consider the pedestrian mall project a success at this point; it has helped spurn reinvestment in the downtown, including a convention center and hotels." Downtown Partnership, Little Rock, Arkansas National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 6 Eugene, Oregon: Eugene built its 7 Y, block long, H-shaped pedestrian mall in the late 1960's in response to a large regional shopping center being built within a mile of the downtown area. In 1986 the city council approved funding to redesign the pedestrian mall area, the objective being to maintain strong pedestrian features while reintroducing essential retail street components. The pedestrian area had an extremely park-like appearance: heavy vegetation, street furniture and playgrounds, and a lack of lighting, which retailers and customers frequently cited as hindering orientation and heightening a sense of insecurity. In the late 1980s one block was returned to auto traffic, with some success in invigorating commerce. By 1986 there were discussions for conversions of more sections, and a formal plan was developed in 1991 to convert five blocks to street traffic, leaving two blocks of the pedestrian mall intact. The referendum to spend the nearly $4 million on the redesign failed that year, mostly because of its enormous cost for an area with a strongly negative public image. In 1992, a two block section was approved to be opened at a considerably lower price. There is now some discussion about reopening two more blocks to auto traffic. "We're working on creating a a pedestrian oriented street, not car-oriented, but with auto access," says Bob Hibschman, of the Eugene Planning Department. "Its a nice compromise to having a totally closed street, or one accessible and dominated by cars." With Eugene, incremental change has worked better to convince city residents that the area can be turned around. Current plans will have three blocks remaining pedestrian, lineal style mall, whereas before, its H shape made it difficult to get around downtown. Says Hibschman, "Eugene isn't giving up on pedestrian malls, we're just tuning down the size of the mall to one the community can handle." Eugene Planning Department, Eugene, OR Wilmington, Delaware: Wilmington, Delaware spent $750,000 to remove two blocks at the south end of its 1,900 foot- long downtown pedestrian mall. The segments of the Market Street Mall that were retained are within 1,000 feet of a heavy concentration of office workers, providing an adequate base of potential customers for convenience-oriented businesses. Dining and shopping are popular weekday activities here, and most merchants like the pedestrian mall. The two blocks converted have not, as was hoped, upgraded a marginal retail area, although recent development between the mall and the nearby Amtrak station is expected to bring new shoppers. Trenton, New Jersey: Trenton's pedestrian mall, also called Market Square Mall, was built in 1974, and was two blocks long. A study conducted a few years ago by the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation of the feasibility and potential benefits of opening up the pedestrian mall found that merchants felt it was important for it to be opened up, their businesses had declined. Other issues included National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 7 general traffic flow, with buses having to circumvent the mall area to drop off passengers. Recently, one block was opened to vehicular traffic, and business has improved. Capital City Redevelopment Corporation, Trenton, New Jersey Charlottesville, Virginia: Charlottesville's seven-block-long pedestrian mall was built in two phases in the late 1970s along its Main Street. Due to a large number of downtown office workers in the immediate vicinity and the presence of several popular restaurants and movie theaters, the area was not too adversely affected by the pedestrian mall's construction. But as new shopping centers and discount stores cropped up on U.S. Route 29 -- the city's major entrance highway __ downtown sales began to erode. The addition of a Radisson hotel (now owned by Ornni) at the end of the pedestrian mall in 1985 bolstered economic activity somewhat. In 1996, the city decided to permit automobile traffic to cross the pedestrian mall at two cross-streets, which has made it easier for drivers to travel around and through the central business district and which seems to have improved access -- and sales. Sioux City, Iowa: A one-block-long pedestrian oriented plaza was built in the mid-1970s as a link between two prospective downtown department stores. One of the department stores - J.C. Penney's _ did move downtown and continues to thrive in the area, but the second department store pulled out of the proposed development, leaving one end ofthe area open. Recently, Main Street Sioux City, Inc., the downtown's management program, has pulled together funding from public and private sources to soften up the design of the pedestrian area, which is currently asphalt and benches. They plan to shift its focus to being a downtown park, adding sod, better quality benches, lighting, trees, and the like. Main Street Sioux City, Inc. is hoping the area's few remaining vacancies near the park will benefit from its welcoming appearance, and attract people. Says Dave Anderson, director of Main Street Sioux City, "We want to create an inviting place where people can eat their lunch or read a book. Previously, in the summer, the heat from the asphalt was too intense for people to linger." Main Street Sioux City, Sioux City, Iowa COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE HAD PEDESTRIAN MALLS AND HAVE REMOVED THEM: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: In the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, four miles east of downtown, an auto-restricted zone was developed in the 1960s using $525,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds. In 1986, two blocks of Broad Street were reopened and angle parking added; another street was reopened with no design changes; and a third street was modified from one-way to two-way traffic and on-street parking. These changes were made after a market study confirmed that the neighborhood's retail stores were suffering from a lack of visibility. Community planner Michael Eannarino reports that people didn't want to walk from perimeter parking lots to the shopping district. He also notes that the mall's timing was bad, since the neighborhood was experiencing National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 8 change from people and services moving to the suburbs, driven in part by mall development in outlying areas. After the pedestrian areas were opened up to motor traffic, retailers reported immediately that sales went up, and businesses that were suffering tremendously then are still doing a good businesses now. The ring road that was originally constructed to route traffic around the pedestrian mall still exists and remains a barrier between the business district and natural flow of traffic, according to Karen Lafrance of East Liberty Development, Inc. The community is still trying to dismantle that last part of the former pedestrian mall. "For better or for worse, people travel by cars, and that must be taken into account when thinking of retailing," she says. Although the district is not as accessible as it could be, since the ring road is still in place, she reports that "getting rid of the pedestrian mall was major step in saving businesses in our area." East Liberty Development Inc., Pittsburgh, P A South Bend, Indiana: Michigan Street, South Bend's main thoroughfare, was converted to a pedestrian mall in the 1970s. It featured a covered walkway, fountains, and sculptures, representing substantial public investment. Nonetheless, downtown stores and movie theaters moved to the suburban shopping centers and malls, and the downtown gradually experienced an increasing vacancy rate. The area began to attract vagrants, and its image suffered. The downtown's last two department stores, J.C. Penney's and Robertson's, were gone by 1987. The street was reopened in 1987 with one-hour parking on both sides of the street, and business significantly improved. The community created a downtown management organization, Center City Associates, to help recruit businesses, help existing businesses reposition themselves in the marketplace, and help maintain the district. Retail sales downtown increased by an estimated 20 percent when auto traffic was restored to Michigan Street. South Bend is still battling other issues such as vacant lots left over from urban renewal, there have been major successes that, according to Center City Associates director Carter Wolf, would never have happened with the pedestrian mall intact. The J.C. Penney's building was converted in a $4.5 million project to a night club, and the State Theater, closed for 14 years, reopened with an impressive "largest screen in northern Indiana" - the only area theater to have digital sound. "We have to admit that the automobile creates activity," says Wolf. "We regulate cars not with meters, but with enforcement of time limits, and cars must turnover, which in itself causes activity." The former pedestrian mall now allows two-way traffic to the parking area, but is not a through street. Reports Wolf, "Now we have a parking shortage, with all ofthe evening, restaurant businesses - we've never had that before." Center City Associates, South Bend, Indiana National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 9 '. St. Joseph, Missouri: St. Joseph, Missouri removed its five block downtown pedestrian mall in 1991. Built in 1978, the mall did well for two to three years, but "it was all downhill from there," reported Kathy Morgan, the community's Main Street director at the time of pedestrian mall's removal. "They'd been trying to remove the mall since 1988. Only nine stores remained in the area where 20 had been before." Two major banks and a national hotel chain each contributed $10,000 toward the removal of the mall and renovation ofthe area. All five blocks are now open to cars. The redesign also included new street lights and new parking spaces along the street. Main Street St. Joseph. Inc., St. Joseph, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas: Kansas City's pedestrian-oriented downtown improvements were always open to auto traffic, but the two-block roadway was originally designed in a winding, serpentine fashion through the area, with speed bumps to slow cars down as they passed through the commercial area. The design included the usual fountains, benches, custom lighting fixtures and ornamental mounds that typify pedestrian malls. But the Kansas City mall has one unusual feature: twelve 15-foot pylons, designed to symbolize grain elevators. The city faced modifications of the pedestrian area, which, according to economic development director Dean Katemdahl, has always "been a lightening rod for complaints about downtown." The majority of the modifications were needed to improve maintenance: snowplows and street cleaning equipment were unable to navigate the $2 million mall's various design features. The roadway was straightened, the speed bumps removed, and the grain elevator-esque pylons removed. Waco, TX: Since construction of its pedestrian mall, Waco's Austin Avenue had deteriorated from the city's preeminent commercial street to an eyesore with vagrants and many vacant storefronts. In 1986, the city ripped up the pedestrian mall's fountains and trees and reopened the street to traffic. Ground-floor vacancies dropped from 80% to 40%. Other Communities that have removed or modified their pedestrian malls: Winston-Salem, NC: The pedestrian mall built in 1971 was removed by 1981 and reopened to traffic and on-street parking - a decision that one planner called "more politics than planning." Norfolk, VA: Results of opening to traffic have been mixed due to the opening of a new retail facility on the nearby waterfront. Memphis, TN: A trolley system is being added to the pedestrian area. New London, CT: Downtown pedestrian mall is now reopened to traffic, with very positive results. National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Malls 10 . Oak Park, IL: Three of four blocks have been opened to traffic and the last redesigned. Poughkeepsie, NY: Now reopened to auto traffic. Galveston, TX: Pedestrian mall was converted to a transit mall with trolley linking it to the more popular beach front area. National Main Street Center Information Brief on Downtown Pedestrian Ma/ls 11 Other Plaza Research Findings January -May 2000 Research by Dan LoBianco Dubuque Main Street, Ltd. In researching other communities the following is information I received from the various cities. The infonnation will be fonnaned as follows: . The basics: City, year of renovation, number of City blocks involved, type of renovation (opened or remained closed) and costs. . Net employment and businesslbuilding staI1-ups/closures fi.gures on the directly impacted "streets." . Any opinion/attitude change in the business Owners and/or employees on the "plaza" since the "renov.3non." . Advice on hm\' to proceed. Kalamazoo, i\lichigan . TIle first dOl\1110wn pedestrian mall in tlle country. Under advice of consultant, tried to remove by referendum in 1995 - failed. After a private commitment of54.5 million, passed in 1997. Completed two block opening in October 1998. Total cost was 59 million. . TIlree major projects have started in just 15 months: one mixed-use facility (retail & office), one housing facility and a cultur.J.1 center. . Steve Deisler, the gentlem::m to whom I spoke, was initially against the opening, but it is hard to argue with the Success. . Tell workers and officials to give it a chance. Do not need conventional street. Custom the parking mles to fit your needs. Eugene, Oregon . "H-shaped" pedestrian mall built in 1970. Have been working on removing by referendum since 1985. Opened in four stagl~s. Still ha\'e two blocks closed. . Rct3il & onice space has beg.un thrived in CJ.ch block, J.S it opened. . Rct:lilc:rs Jre thrilled with opening. People: are coming bJck by the thousands. The major employer tho I opposed is at one end of lhe two blocks still closed, bnl has tumed its back on the plaza. (Front door now f:lces :l\vay from the plJZJ. It used to be on the plaza.) Skateboarders and non- tr.\dilion:11 citizcns now dominate the two blocks closed. . Chcck our where Ihe entrance or the IllJjor objector is. . . Ask why? . . . Do they deny the others the right to this. S:lIlle access? , Burlingtou, Iowa . Pc:dc:stri:\1l1l1:111 built in Iatc 1970s.. \Vithin len years, vac::mcy reached 80.percent. Opened all mall \....ith no p3rking in 90s. . \Vifhin two ye:tn; l'e3ched full occuP:'lIIcy. (Now three vacancies.) New businesses include a C:Ullc:ra store, several rest:mr:1I1Is, and a bike s.hop. . Attitude great :111l0ng rc:l:'lih:rs and oOlee workers, except the "no pJrking" issue. . Consider the p:nking long :lnd hard. People will dctcsllhe drop-ofT zone parking tickets. Middletown, Ohio . Four-square-block pedestrian mall with roof built in 1970s. Vacancies jumped to problem levels quickly. . Huge money investment has been committed to open. Just getting started. . Other than expense issues, very strong support for losing the mall. . Check back in a year or two. Rockhill, South Carolina . Pedestrian mall built in 1974. Vacancy reached 70 percent in 1991. Bond referendum to opened all mall, spending $3.5 million in public funds passed. There were extra development costs to take a winding mall design back to perpendicular streets. A private economic development corp. bought about 25 buildings for sale/development . Occupancy way up. Most buildings sold. . Most everyone likes the results. . Economic development folks should not worry about it. Property will sell. Denver, Colorado . Pedestrian mall built in 1982. Businesses declined between 20 and 30 percent, but city is committed to keeping it closed. Added trolley service and grant program to incent investment. . Vacancies have decreased, but not all the way. It is now a place for restaurants and specialty retail. . Retailers and service providers that remain have adjusted. . Denver is a special circumstance. They are not sure if too many cities should model programs after this one. Santa Monica, California . Three-block pedestrian mall built in 1961. Mall met with little success. Bond referendum to opened all mall, spending $ \3 million in public funds, passed. The mall, however, is opened weekdays. Closed for 10,000 people to walk on weekends. Fairly simple barrier closes the street Friday evenings. . Area is nearly 100 percent occupied. . Office/upper stories like the access during the week. Restaurants and entertainment establishments like the festival atmosphere on weekends. . Mix of opening and closing works. Folks there are not sure why we would want it closed during the week. They say workers will like the retail and service opening brings to the area. . Omaha, NE has a similar story to tell. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . . Large pedestrian mall built in about 1967. By 1983, vacancy reached 60 percent. In mid '80s city decided to take out the biggest mall downtown. . Over six year period, the business district saw $80 million in real estate development (new and renovation). During the same period, 200 new businesses opened and there has been a net in new jobs of +2000. . The results speak for themselves. . Pittsburgh is a very large city, but they truly believe helping the retailers cannot hurt the office owners/employees. .' '- Wilmington, Delaware . Pedestrian mall (3,000 linear feet long) built during urban renewal. Vacancy hit hard through the '80s. City spent $750,000 to open 1,900 feet of mall. . Not quite the results desired. Because of the high amount of office workers, the closed portion remains a nice weekday place for restaurants and mainly small retailers. New development is just underway for a connection for the area to a nearby Amtrak station. Open section is about as equally successful as closed. . Major credit card processing bank has major presence on the plaza. . Advice: Be cautiously optimistic about desired results. Sioux Falls, South Dakota . A 1970s downtown pedestrian mall modeled after Dubuque's and other malls, it was removed in approximately 1990. Vacancy was way up in the late 80s. Ten years later, vacancies rarely exist. The former mall and other Main Street areas are filled with specialty retailers, with a number of large office complexes on the perimeter of the new street. . Spoke to both the Main Street director and one of the first developers to rehabilitate an historic Structure on the opened plaza, and they both had rave reviews for the benefits of opening the mall to a street. . Sioux Falls, like Dubuque, is not yet a tourist Mecca, but there are a substantial number of visitors from around a few state area. The discount shoppers go to typical outlying mall developments, while the downtown benefits from a reputation as a great specialty retailer area, from a great china shop to book and music stores. The higher-end shoppers come downtown. . Unlike Dubuque, Sioux Falls has seen an increase in population of about 20,000 in the last ten years, and the inner city has greatly benefited, along with outlying areas to this growth. The downtown principals of Sioux Falls invite Dubuque leaders to come and see their refurbished downtown. Boulder, Colorado . A successful four-block mall built in 1977. Remains strong today, with almost exclusively retails businesses (both national and local stores, restaurants, street vendors and street artists) . There is no question the mall benefits from being a large university and visitor driven town. . No large office complexes on the mall. They are elsewhere in the city. . In their view successful downtown malls must include unique retail and be a vital place throughout the day, and ifretail is already gone, their SUccess story may not be replicable in Dubuque. Covington, Kentucky . In the 70s Covington converted one block of several streets into an Old Town Plaza in hopes of bringing shoppers back downtown. It did not work. Although some people found the mall a nice place for lunch, overall sales slump, businesses closed and storefronts became vacant. In time for Christmas season 1993 the streets were reopened to two-lane traffic and parallel parking was added. . Sales were up as much as 30% that first season, and business continues to improve. Buildings 3re being renovated, and business continues to increase each year. . They call the removal of the mall an "unqualified success." They recommend it universally and have written letters to editors to papers in other communities recommending the same. Frankfort, Kentucky o Another pedestrian mall constructed and modeled after the Dubuque Town Clock Plaza. o Plans are underway to open to a street, leaving it closed during lunch hours. (They have a significant portion of government workers who like the plaza for lunches, also.) o Interesting note: Kentucky communities with downtown plazas cannot take advantage of Renaissance Kentucky grants and economic development funds unless part of their revitalization program includes removing the pedestrian mall. o While their project is just underway, they encourage us to pursue a public and employee awareness program of the value of opening the mall, and research, as we have done community success stories throughout the country. Boston, Massachusetts Boston, like Pittsburgh is too large to directly be compared with Dubuque, but in the Back Bay shopping district of Boston there are buildings about the age of Dubuque's Old Main District. On a national Town Meeting tour in April Dubuque Main Street received the following unsolicited "tale of two streetscapes" from three tour leaders, a local architect and two Boston Main Street directors: o On one open street there were I OOs of people shopping at small specialty retailers, with hardly a vacancy on the block, folks were eating a modest (three to ten table top) cafes all along this approximate mile stretch. There were only a handful of vacancies along this street among over 100 filled storefronts. o The chaperons then took the group one block east to a pedestrian mall area Prudential had constrncted only a few years for employee and visitor comfort. There were a total of eight people on this plaza, two of who were on skateboards, finding seats to "grind on." There we literally a 100 times more people one block away. . The explanation from the guides were the "see and be seen" nature of human interaction, as well as a need for full-time access of merchants. o After the tour, the architect discussed with the Dubuque Main Street director his feelings that any community like Dubuque should give serious thought to not investing large amounts of resources to construct a modem.day plaza. -~ .~ .. ---..-;-m_...' . May 11,2000 Dear Council Members: Enclosed is a copy of a letter signed by a number of Town Clock Plaza stakeholders. Instead of multiple copies of one letter we sent in January, we all signed the single copy this time, and we limited the participation to actual Main Street Plaza building and business owners (stakeholders) to demonstrate inclusiveness. There were a couple business owners unavailable to sign this document within the small window of time we had, however, to assure presentation to you prior to your discussion on Monday, we send it now. Should we receive the other endorsements prior to your Monday meeting, we may forward the additional signatures to you at that time. 1,~'.ni~lr\r1f:IO \.J\ 0' ".., '-1' V , fW"\ 8:)',11.0 S." ",:J . j'-.. G Z :0\ ~l\1 S \ ,\,~\cl OQ 03/\bJ38 May 5, 2000 Dubuque City Council Members City of Dubuque 50 West 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4864 Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council Members: First and foremost, we appreciate the time you have spent on various downtown projects, especially your attention to the Town Clock Plaza. We realize this has been a very time consuming project involving many differences of opinions. We, the owners, the property tax payers, and the individuals responsible for the assessments, have met numerous times to come up with a unified viewpoint on this downtown project. Our unified resolve is we would like to have Main Street open from 5th to 9th Streets, with short- term parking available. As you know, some of us property owners did not want parking on a new Main Street; however, we came to a consensus that parking is a necessary component of opening the street to benefit the overall business climate in the heart of our city. We feel that opening the plaza will help not only downtown Dubuque, but will fully complement and enhance the developing riverfront area. We realize you have and will hear numerous viewpoints on the project, but we hope you will consider the voice of the property owners. We will be the ones paying property taxes, paying the assessments and most importantly, hiring the employees of downtown Dubuque. Since our unified communication with you in January, and in addition to the parking concessions discussed above, we have worked with Dubuque Main Street Ltd. to study other cities that have recently dealt with pedestrian mall situations similar to ours, as well as a numbers study on our plaza. (A full report of this information is being forwarded to you from Main Street, under separate cover.) From the recommendations and stories of increased development from Kalamazoo, Michigan; to Burlington, Iowa; to Sioux Falls, South Dakota; to Eugene, Oregon; the information in these studies further solidifies our resolve that the Main Street portion of our Town Clock Plaza should be opened for vehicular circulation. At the same time, we respect the need of downtown employees, students, etc. to have a nice place for lunch and outdoor breaks. For this reason, a group of business leaders on both sides of the opened/closed plaza issue have been meeting, and are attempting to reach consensus/compromise, on improved public space availability in current "non-Main Street" Plaza areas and the possibility of developing potential new off-street space. We encourage this initiative to be further explored. We are committed to continued safety, improved traffic circulation, a positive downtown identity, and the continuance of our traditional festivals in our neighborhood, as expressed in prior correspondence. Your vote on Monday to reopen Main Street will not only be the defining moment for the future of our downtown; it will also positively impact generations to come. Thank you for "doing the right thing" for all of Dubuque by reopening Main Street. Name ) ("r e~~/~ Ny<' Ll\--- n ^ Business -"~ n~ Name ~.JK~ t!)~ \K;>f/~'<Axo-r;--/ /- 0 () ~me ~ Business I Date , /~ . 0..-- ~ j':"7 -00 Name B~~~;S~ ~1 lJ' -C) Date - (h.uJu..fL li.Jj Lt)~~ ;;; - / () - CiCJ . ~- 9' -<!)c) B ness Jff?/ d@;1#d Date C /Ot:o Date 5tee\oe Business f,l\,iA-lf.U"\ e>e li'Ut" ...(. b s- ~69~~ Date Business Date f)-ft>- ~O Date :5-/:1-00 Date; sf7/ oJ Date LhJ ~ /J:JjD () Date Date Date , ....... , s::~ /\^--^...o ...n A...l 'a B(usiness ~ Ftrfn" ~ :6~ ~ "~cp B;J;;t 16 /Ti/ CEl-v~0{'~ BD~:qiAt>, M~,"^ 0+. Name Business T Name Business cc: Mike Van Milligen Name Business May 3, 2000 Open letter to: Mr. Mayor/City Council Members Re: Opening of Town Clock Plaza As a past president of the Downtown MerchantslDubuque Downtown Association and Dubuque Main Street Ltd., I would like to add my strong support to opening the Town Clock Plaza to limited vehicular traffic. Over the past 25 years the city has hired numerous consulting firms to review the downtown area and the Plaza. Every consulting firm came back with the same recommendation, "open the plaza", at least to limited vehicular traffic. Case in point: most, ifnot all the surrounding cities that had closed plazas, have tom them out. As a city, we are spending multi thousands of dollars to promote tourism. Our plaza, and the resulting traffic problems it creates, does not enhance our presentation. I see this as a final opportunity to correct a mistake made many years ago. I commend all those people and businesses who have fought for the opening ofthe Plaza. I fear we will lose many, if not all the remaining old Dubuque businesses if you do not act positively in opening the Plaza. Sincerely, :f ~ 6:-L-- Thomas Graham VI ,q::Q """I') '.'~, "''',n iW"l O.......;jJ\ '} v,,_, "V ~ '7 ,'. II\! "I I .", "I' Ov :UI r~\t ~ f,lni l..,i 03/\i:JJ38 May 12,2000 Dear Council Members: Enclosed are copies of petitions signed by downtown stakeholders in favor of opening the Town Clock Plaza. This was a last minute, not truly organized effort. We had no plans to have another petition drive, but thought sOr.1ething should be done when we read the estimate of 95 to 5 pro- closed estimate in the Telegraph Herald We were not canvassing the plaza for an entire beautiful week as the other side was, but wanted you to know ifit is 95 to 5, based on these petitions alone (y{e believe more will be on their way to you soon), they will need 2166 signatures on the opposite position. We do not necessarily want to playa numbers game, but wanted you to know there are many, many downtown shoppers, employees and residents who want the plaza opened. We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a constmction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) 2 ~ 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 8. 29. 9. 30. 10. 31. II. 32. I.. 12. 33. 13. 34. 14. 35. IS. 36. 16. 37. 17.~~ 38. 18. 39. 19. 40. 20. 41. 21. 42. We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a construction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) I. 22. 2. 23. 3. 24. 4. 25. 5. 26. 27. 28. 29. 9. 30. 10. 31. II. 32. 12. 33. '-' 13. 34. 14. 35. 15. 36. 37. 38. 18. 39. 19. 40. 20. 41. 21. 42. We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a construction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) 1./ 2. 3. Aa ~t<-<- J'--0~<ct~1 ~<l1 "- 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ~~~ bz;~. II.GL...?~.,;., ~~~.,_/ 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. ./ ) '\ We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a construction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 32. 12. 33. 13. / , 14: i I',' 15. 34. 35. 36. /Vcc ~/~ 18. 'Nl ~~ C'f ~ 19. ~ Clr~ 20. ~ l/et~~ 21. /tr~riP <- 16. 37. 17. 38. 39. 40. ---. 41. 42. ) Mr. Mayor and Council Members: We, the undersigned, strongly support the opening of Main Street. I Name I ~:....c ll,\' ,C\..ll\F~(\. l,I!M., ~I..- L / () V . t7 .1. //JA.,h):lu.Jvt'-R---u ~ -'-< .zc. c V \ oS .~ 1 i f 'e /1 /I. I~ I~ /6 IfJ It. /1 /1 ~ ~ .:& rJ.. Address 5' lJ 0 \< 1lC),. 310(:;/ <nH Ji/(7 .J '?u H d .~II~ /3~.;. .k? . \.')t'/ . Date ;:)-oq.oo z. - 1.3 -00 2 - /3-00 .3 -- /6"- 19--O ~~'l~ ~\\J ~~ L 1- ~ "-'0 ~~~ ~ \~Y\ I, We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a construction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) I. ~ 6 ~ <H \S. G\~9\t_Q ) 2. .fJ7~ v120& 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 20. 21. --- 22. ~ j. cf,1J;;V~, 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. We the undersigned concerned citizens of downtown Dubuque request the City Council support the study and implementation of a construction project to open the Town Clock Plaza on Main Street. (We are employees, residents, business managers, and property owners in downtown. We want our voices to be heard with the others.) 22. 23. 24. 25. 5 26. 6. 27. 7. 28. 8. 29. 9. 30. 10. 31. II. 32. 12. 33. 13. 34. 14. 35. 15. 36. 16. 37. 17. 38. 18. 39. 19. 40. 20. 41. 21. 42. ',- ,. , - .J', raham's yle Stoee foe Men May 5, 2000 Mayor Terry Duggan 2428 Beacon Hill Drive Dubuque, IA 52003 Dear Mayor Duggan: Judging by the name on the top of this letterhead, we know it is not too difficult to imagine what this letter is all about. We're sending you this note to tell you how passionately we feel about opening the Town Clock Plaza. For years, our fumily business has held onto the hope that the plaza and associated access problems might some day be resolved. We hope for the one clear resolution to our problems which is returning Main Street to our front doors. We don't want to talk about businesses who share the same opinion we do. Many of their experiences and feelings are unique to themselves. We are not going to presume these folks feel the exact same way we do. Our sole purpose is to share our individual frustrations, as both landlord (Graham Brothers' Partnership) and tenant (Graham's Style Store for Men), with the Town Clock Plaza. Second, we are not looking for some type of special interest, corporate welfure to save downtown retail. Under no circumstances are we deluding ourselves with the belief that the city council can wave a magic wand and in an instant Main Street will become a thriving hub of retail once again. As responsible downtown businessmen and some of downtown's fiercest supporters, we are resigned to this realization. We have stayed downtown expecting that wisdom and myriad examples offuiled plazas will shed light on the answer to today's dilemma. Plazas do not work. Many communities (Kalamazoo, Michigan; Eugene, Oregon; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Rock Hills, South Carolina; Middletown, Ohio; Burlington, Iowa; Winona, Minnesota; Santa Monica, California...) across the country have begun sincere downtown revitalization efforts with the removal of their plazas. It is astounding to us that these examples are ignored time and time again. Losing a downtown retailer is far more significant than just a business retention issue. Losing just one more longtime, downtown retailer is not the loss of a single store, it is a loss of a significant piece of Dubuque history. Rather than hear people saying, "There used to be a great (fill in the blank) store on this corner." Instead, wouldn't it be great to hear, "Here's a business that toughed it out through the depression; they were shuflled around during urban renewal; they held on to their roots when it was a ghost town in the 80's; and here they are today despite of it all." You may be saying right now, "Listen, we have all these people who have signed this petition. You can't ignore that." We realize that many of you have received this petition to keep the plaza closed. It is absolutely maddening as hell to think some of these people's voices may be heard over ours. Ask some of these petition signers how long they 890 Town Clock Plaza . Dubuque, Iowa 52001 . Phone: 319-582-3760 . FAX: 319-556-6576 .i '. have been downtown? Is it a matter of weeks? A few months? A couple of years? How much time do they actually spend on the plaza (presuming that it is a nice day)? Is it for a half hour? Maybe an hour? How long do they plan on staying downtown? A year? Or maybe until the next best thing comes along? (The University of Northern Iowa conducted a study which reported that the average employee in the state ofIowa would leave their job for a pay raise of only $0.60 an hour.) We can see people sitting on the picnic tables in front of our store windows on nice days. There are some faces we can remember from each season. Just as an example, there is a group offive men from Alliant energy who use the picnic table in front ofthe store on Fridays in the summer. Not a single one ofthem has ever set foot in the store, or probably any other downtown store for that matter. Should their signatures and the signatures of others like them count as strongly as ours in this matter? Don't for an instant think we're bitter because ofan handful of people. We know you can't, "sell 'em all." It is, however, infuriating that their signatures will be given any clout at all. With the high turnover rates in today's labor market, many ofthem won't know ifthey'll even be employed downtown next year. How many of the petition signers: volunteered for downtown cleanup? volunteer for one of the Main Street committees? support public organizations like the Dubuque Art Museum, like the Grand Theater, like Dubuque Main Street, Ltd., like the Knights of Columbus, like the Colts Drum and Bugle Corp., etc? We are not saying that everyone who signs the petition is an evil, selfish person. This is far from our intention. You must, however, look at the interests of businesses, like Graham's, who have supported downtown through thick and thin. Businesses who encourage their employees to volunteer and be responsible. Businesses who have the sincerest and best intentions of downtown and the city of Dubuque at heart. You may be saying, "There are 2,204 people working in the eight square block area encompassed by the plaza. Plaza workers share such a unique interaction with one another which is unlike workers on the west side. This is a special atmosphere." An open Main Street will not ruin this atmosphere and uniqueness. No where else in town are so many employees able: to interact with one another, to walk such a variety of restaurants, to tour an art museum, to enjoy a park, to sit on the shore of the Mississippi, or to explore a library. This area is special because of the closeness to these attractions, not because four blocks of Main Street are closed to vehicle traffic. As Main Street business owners, we have to deal with the plaza 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This is far different from many ofthe petition signers who are downtown weekdays only for their 9:00 to 5:00 jobs and use the plaza during their lunch breaks. We bring people downtown from the west side and from outlying communities on a continuous basis, not just the lunch hour. We have to deal with the plaza when it's raining, snowing, too cold, too windy, or too hot for a picnic. It is very easy to sign a petition and see the benefits of a plaza on a spring day when it is sunny and 700. Unfortunately, as you know, it is not sunny and 700 every afternoon in Dubuque, Iowa. Electing to keep the plaza closed will force some hard fast decisions for some longtime Main Street businesses. These businesses not only represent several generations of Dubuque history, but also represent the nucleus of downtown leadership. Perennially, these are the folks who are the true core of downtown volunteerism. Volunteers who give 2 . . their time for the big events and projects, as weIl as the little things such as picking up the trash dropped outside their business, making sure ice and snow are kept clear for everyone's safe passage, and helping visitors navigate through our town. The entire city benefits from their selflessness and dedication. Losing the vote to regain our Main Street will truly force us to question our once steely resolve and determination to be part of our Main Street streetscape. The Town Clock Plaza will lose some very key businesses if it remains closed to traffic. Although these businesses no longer represent the core ofthe plaza's business mix, they playa critical role in giving our downtown balance, keeping it a nice place to work, and continuing to bring in people from outside the city. If the decision is to keep Main Street closed, we guarantee this argument wiIl resurface on its own within another 10 years. What makes Dubuque so different from the list of communities mentioned above? Why can't we learn from their examples and share their success? Returning the Town Clock Plaza into a Main Street will serve the best interest of our entire community in the present and for the future. 2inC rely,. G () .. ;:>'~~!Lk fI./J-<,-~ oseph H. Graham Owner, Graham's Style Store for Men Partner, Graham Bros. Partnership ~,T~. Benjan\!n T. Graham Vice-President, Graham's Style Store for Men 3