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Community Assets & Development Department MEMORANDUM DATE: July 21, 2017 TO: Manager Lotter Mayor Members of the Council FROM: Janice Gundlach, Asst. Director of Community Assets & Development/Planning Director SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan Update – Launch Phase 2 of Community Engagement At the June 6th City Council work session, Council was presented information regarding feedback received through the community engagement outreach and how that information was used to amend the vision and goal statements within the Comprehensive Plan. Council was also provided a memo and presentation that discussed key concepts and ideas that are being developed for the Comprehensive Plan update. Following that work session, City staff and Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. (HKGi) revised the materials based upon Council feedback and met with all City Advisory Commissions to obtain their reactions and comments. Staff and HKGi met with the following Commissions: Parks, Recreation, and Environmental Commission: June 22, 2017 Public Safety Commission: July 10, 2017 Economic Development Commission: July 12, 2017 Planning Commission: July 18, 2017 The following are key takeaways from feedback received from Commission meetings: • Generally, people were in agreement on all of the ideas presented and felt them worthy of community evaluation and discussion. • Wayfinding should be emphasized for both internal New Brighton systems and external destinations (nodes and regional trail corridors). • Challenge with not having a strong identity was recognized as an issue – concepts presented could help with that issue. • The idea of the public market/event space was well received by all groups – some thought consideration over time of a structure that would enable more year round use would be an asset. • Gateway signage to New Brighton would be good – but costly o Discussed ideas of overpass design or sound wall design on freeways