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6 Sense of Place Explore and implement smaller, incremental projects in association with larger public improvement and redevelopment projects throughout the community that focus on building and creating a sense of place. Results Implement the following principles that support the creation of a Sense of Place (also referred to as Place Making). • Strong Public Safety presence to ensure secure, safe neighborhoods, getting people out of their homes and interacting throughout all areas of the community. • Creation of gathering places or destinations, whether in plaza-type environments, at a local restaurant or bar, fraternal organizations, or in outdoor dining spaces. • Ensuring a connection with the schools, access to personal enrichment programs, and local sport team identification. • Creating traffic calm environments that are walkable and bikeable with connections to public spaces including schools, parks, public art, and City entrance monument signage. • Creating enhanced physical connections to local business and public spaces through high quality public infrastructure such as roads, trails, landscaping, lighting, City entrance monument signage, etc. • Provide local support and visibility for reoccurring public events, like Stockyard Days, a farmer’s market, and sporting events and providing ways for local business to be engaged in these events. Interpretation In an effort to ensure substance or measurable results with regard to these principles, success in implementing these principles will be through implementation of the following amenities into public improvement projects: monument signage, roadway improvement projects that are bike and pedestrian friendly and provide paths, lights, wayfinding, landscaping, bussing, and trails, public art, outdoor dining areas, music in the parks, and other enhancements to public property such as fountains, flowers, community gardens, and raingardens. Response The City Council approved the EDC’s recommended principles on creating a Sense of Place by adopting Resolution 07-006 on January 24, 2017. The EDC will provide input on the incorporation of these principles into the Comprehensive Plan and will monitor success by taking a role in reviewing public improvement projects.