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Community Engagement PlanDRAFT A-37 <br />Meeting #General Comments (overheard by staff or included on Comment Card) <br />2 Need bathroom access in early fall, winter, and spring for walkers <br />2 New Brighton is a great place to live. Need to keep up infrastructure. Make as walkable as possible <br />2 <br />Vadnais Heights. How can residents' sorties help promot NB and assist outreach? Promoted on website - <br />promote diversity of stories: rich, poor, different religions, immigrants & lifetime Minnesotans, etc. Need better <br />local paper that's only NB, primarily online and mobile friendly - invite resident-generated content - call it <br />"Nota Bene"? (NB for NB). As a runner, I'd love to see more unpaved trails, expansive trail system, use rails. <br />For Comprehens Plan webpage & social pinpoint - use a URL shortener so it's easier to remember and type in <br />browser - custom short domain for NB like: newbr.tn or nwbrt.on <br />2 <br />As a young entrepreneur, I'd love more amenities for small business and tech business owners: Better WiFi access <br />and improved speeds; co-working spaces; better restaurants, breweries, etc (encourage ethnic restaurants); <br />more bike paths; more mass transit to Mpls & St. Paul! Thanks! <br />2 Improve Silver Lake Road for pedestrians & bicycles - need wider sidewalks. Keep up with trail replacements and <br />repairs in the parks <br />2 <br />I think it's important to concentrate on excilling in areas where New Brighton CAN be great. NB cannot be great <br />for all things (e.g. shopping), but should be able to excel in a few areas. So we should identify our strengths, and <br />capitalize on those. <br />2 Come up with ways to utilize the Community Centers, City Hall, Gym, etc. Host "Night Out" <br />2 With climate change a certainty, the expected consequences (extreme rain events, heat stress on trees and other <br />vegetation, heat stress on housing and residents) need to be taken into account in the next comprehensive plan <br />2 <br />We need to more fully realize the resources we have here, ie neighborhood centers, NBCC. Ensure people <br />feel safe on paths. Need more community communication. Need to protect and improve New Brighton assets. <br />Connect people more easily to necessary resources. <br />2 Downtown needs a lot of work. Start an ethnic foods festival <br />2 Please clean up old neighbors - trash, cars on lawns, garbage cans all over! <br />2 Need to look at how climate change will impact the city – in recent years we’ve had issues with water shortages <br />(drought) as well as higher risk of flooding <br />2 Need to be more proactive with programs that keep up housing stock/maintenance assistance, especially need <br />to focus on getting resources to seniors who still own <br />2 It’d be nice to have a place to in town to sit down and have a coffee <br />2 Build more infrastructure/parks that are “butterfly friendly” <br />2 <br />This event has issues of accessibility <br /> »The event space is small, with this many people makes it difficult to hear conversations <br /> »Small print on the materials and some of the colors can be difficult to read <br /> »The event space is crowded, making moving around difficult, especially for those with mobility issues <br />2 Any gateway entrances should be tasteful and have an artistic involvement – should correspond with signage <br />throughout the city <br />2 Need a theater in the city <br />2 Concerns about the safety of the drinking water