Downtown Development Authority Board - Regular Meeting

We did consent of agenda when I was blocking that counts. Yeah. Do we need to do roll call again or no? On the portal. All right. Do we need to do roll call again or no? Totally. One more time. Okay. Uh originally or like when I was moved here. So my parents are from Miami. Oh. In Orlando. And no, I was raised here from three years old. A little before. Three. I think it was three. I was brought here at three. So I don't really know much different, right? I've lived other places for periods of time just due to schooling and things like that. Skating skiing as well. Yeah. back from our black. Um, we did modify the agenda just to change the order. So, um, we can go ahead and do another roll call real quick and then if you want to jump to the consent and open forum. Okay. Um, and do roll call. Fox Thompson, Tiffany Gatesman, Nick Crab online, Steve Fitzgerald here online. Steve,

roll call again. Barry Young. Miss Abby Young. Thank you. Can we make a motion to approve the consent agenda, the minutes? A second. I move that we set the consent agenda. Oh, I second now. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Um, I think we have the uh open forum. Is there anybody that would like to discuss anything? I don't think we have anybody that wants to discuss anything. All right, we're moving on. So, we went ahead and we did a walkabout, which was nice. We we missed you there, Steve. It would have been helpful. Um I think we're moving on to possible district enhancements. Was that about the walkabout or are we going to move on to that? Not on the walkabout, but I will recap here. I think it'll be good for the recording and for Yeah. Um, but we had talked at our last meeting about funding one of the selfie stands somewhere in the downtown area. Um, and then possibly some signage by the train station there. Um, I can pull up real quick that kinetic sculpture.

Okay. All right. Sorry, folks. I'm not actually in the meeting. I clicked on the wrong thing. So, we kind of walked around. We looked at the train station area. Um I think everybody agrees it'd be a great area to kind of enhance um for visibility for people coming on the train both for those getting off in Frraasier as well as those that are passing through just to kind of notice Frasier and maybe come back and visit us sometime. Um so are looking at something in that area. John, I did kind of float some ideas with him and ask if he had any thoughts. Um, we've gone back and forth over some sort of wayfinding kiosk with information versus something more kind of aesthetically pleasing and just kind of like, hey, you're in Fraser. Um, so as a very initial design, this is something that he sent me just yesterday towards the end of the day. Um, he liked the idea of these international kind of symbols for different activities you can do. Um, and some of the different things that Frraasier is known for. I know we talked about something representing like art and um, some other stuff. Um, but if the DDA is interested, we can have him come to our next meeting and get more formal kind of feedback. Um, and we can in better

investigate kind of locations there by the train station and look at possibly moving forward with something like this. I think that it would be good to have John come before the DDA and talk about his vision. That's what I was saying. He would come into our July meeting. I think we should do that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I I I would also suggest though that um rather than just uh picking somebody without letting the sort of broader artistic community know about this probably isn't our best strategy. Um and it it certainly wouldn't preclude us from meeting with John, but there's, you know, ample opportunity for us to put what's kn generally known as a call for entries out. Yep. Describe what we're looking for and just see what other ideas uh might come forward. doesn't doesn't stop us from using John um uh etc. So that that would be one suggestion and the public arts committee can certainly help with that. Um and two um the mural festival is coming up and what typically happens is each each of the 30 murals um you know is sold at public auction. Uh we have had occasions in the past where some went unsold um or um went for barely anything and um the DDA could choose to purchase one of those for several hundred um and then have the town of Frasier and the DDA logos added to them and turn it into a selfie um opportunity as well. So, just two things that I didn't know if you guys had contemplated in the last meeting. Yeah, Steve, something else that came up um on our walk around, Tiffany mentioned um that you know, Mural Park, we call it Mural Park, and I know that's where the initially all the murals were, but there

are no kind of permanent murals there um or temporary revolving murals. Um if it would make sense to look at either on the surrounding buildings and having mural commission there or what that might look like. You know, there's a three-story mural from the mural festival on on the bison building right there. Um and uh you know the the the um challenge would have with the current murals from the mural festival is they wouldn't last 6 months um in the mural park because they're they're wood and um the sun and weather would um both warp and and distort them pretty quickly. Um, so if we're going to do a mural in that park, we'll need to do a uh more permanent base for it. Um, which is something certainly could be done, but sort of beyond the scope of the the mural festival. Now, one of the things that happens with each mural festival is the grand prize winner is given a commission by the town um to paint a new mural. That's where the the bison came from. This year it's going to go on the um Camber wall. Um but there there's nothing to stop us from asking the public arts committee to designate a new place if we were to put a wall or something in like the the mural park. Well, and I think Kevin seemed open to he's got another wall right there. Um he was out walking around with Kevin Ripken. Um we wanted to do another mural and another wall of their building. Um, I don't know if Ron Anderson or the Distillery would be interested on their building, but those are kind of the prominent wall. We are actually thinking about that. We have an idea in mind, so I can tell you what we're thinking. Okay. Yeah. And and again,

there's nothing to stop us from just commissioning a mural artist to go do it. Yeah. What, and this is probably not good. You guys might know a little bit more, but what about a mural on the concrete? I don't know if it would last with foot traffic. I don't know if there's something you can put over on top of it so it would last a little bit longer, but that would be cool and unique. Yeah. Steve, do you know is there any way to do something like that that would last? And maybe it's okay if it doesn't last if we just keep redoing it. I know I've seen and I've thought about for Frasier and I imagine on Highway 40 you and you could all see that and it would be too involved and probably not approved but um spots by school where they do these like murals in the intersection and it's supposed to help slow down traffic. Um I don't know if it's helpful if you're looking at the mural and kids are crossing but you're going slower. Um and I have found that on the asphalt they don't bl the ones I've seen. Um, but it's just like a street intersection, so just kind of timing doesn't matter. But yeah, I mean I I have I seen that before? Yes. Um, I I do think that that would be the the Mural Park concrete is not a terrible um uh surface for that. Um I I don't know enough about what sort of paint and and duration um that something would last, but you know, again, certainly something we could explore. Um and one of the cool things is we're going to have, you know, the the public art committee does a call for entries for mural artists every year. We typically get 70 to 80 who apply. Um we have all their contact information from the last 5 years. Uh plus we'll have 30 of them in town. So, if that's something we wanted to

explore, we could put that information out to that community. And um I'm willing to bet you that those folks know exactly what sort of specifications we'd have to uh to meet. Steve, do you guys do calls for entries for the other sculptures around town? We did. We did. Um with the exception of the the the one that John just placed was a replacement for one that he had. Um, and we allowed Sarah just Sarah Wick just arranged all that. Okay. Um, but um, we we we generally try and do a call for entry for just about anything that we're going to pay people for just out of a sense of fairness. No, and I wondered about that. Um, because obviously we have a lot of schoolers around town and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been two years since we did that or actually three since we did that call and we'll probably be doing another one next year. Um, but that's don't be intimidated by that folks. That's not hard. Um the town has a license for this um tool that we we can put that information out there and u my guess is we would have all kinds of interest um depending on what we want to do. Okay. Well, maybe I will try to do some more investigation around that juniper patch and the fire hydrant and what that might look like. Um and then if it seems like something you can move forward with. Do you generally put a price range in your call for entries? Yep. Yep. Yep. One of the other things that I've seen in a number of communities is um and I I actually don't know how many fire hydrants we have um but communities um much like our um ski bench uh painting program or the snowplow blade painting. Uh they put a call out for uh artists to paint the fire hydrants. Um, and they tend to be very whimsical and cute. Um,

so that's another simple thing we could do and and probably would not I mean you could probably get most artists to do that for a couple hundred bucks. They do that for electrical boxes too, right Steve? Yeah. Yeah. Super cool electrical box. Yeah, I like those. Yeah. And it's a way of turning what are otherwise utilitarian things into something um fun and it kind of fits the funky Frasier um idea. So those are all possible. Okay. Um I do want to make sure we get a question Carol and one last question for you. Is the TVA interested then in possibly pursuing some of these musical instruments if we looked at those from your park? Yep. to try to activate that space. Yeah. Okay. Great. So, we'll look at both of those. All right. So, we do have um Nora and Art and Anna Ray with us from Cushing Terrell. um they've been moving forward with the town and the town comprehensive plan and wanted to present to you all and give feedback on their top definition that they currently get for development. Thanks Sarah. Hi everyone. Good morning. Um going to share my screen here with a presentation. Looks like that came up. Um thanks for having us. We're we're excited about how this plan has been developing. Um so hopefully after your walking tour this morning some ideas are fresh in your minds. Um so mostly today we'll be giving you an update on how um the plan has evolved since our our last uh

meeting with you all and then walk through um our our vision and goals that we've developed in a draft phase. So um this is where we are in our engagement schedule. Uh we actually have the board retreat next week um where we'll be presenting this information to um the board of trustees and then um just so you know our um next openhouse event will be on July 30th at the rec center and we'll be doing a popup on the 29th at the summer concert um to to let folks know that they should come to the open house the next day. Um, these are just some photos from the open house and then I'm going to pass it over to Art to present the next few slides since he was at the open house and I was not. Greetings. Thanks, Nora. Yep. So, it's been quite a while since we chatted last. Um, and before we kind of hand it back to Nora to talk a little bit more detail about vision and goals, there are kind of four main pieces I wanted to talk about relating to the vision plan. The first one is just a little bit of a refresher talking about the plan purpose. Um, next piece talk about what we presented at that open house. Two different boards that we'll show here. Uh, highlight some of the changes in the plan since we last talked and then kind of provide a little bit of a recap of what we heard at the open house uh relating to the downtown plan. So um in terms of the purpose of the plan, you know, this is a visionary piece that's intended to be um something that facilitates discussion, informs decision- making, um is proactive about addressing change and ultimately integrating what um citizens and residents in the community want. Um what we what we presented at the open house, we included two boards. the first one seeing that we're looking at right here that showed a context map where

that's located in enlargement of the plan. We'll get into that a little bit more detail in a moment and some of the kind of key diagrams that kind of begin to break down the plan a little bit more talking about, you know, where pedestrians, cyclists move throughout the area, where vehicles move through some of the public open spaces. uh we're envisioning uh wave binding elements, parking and ground floor activation, all those good things. Um so I think it provided a nice reference as we're talking to PO people about you know trying to understand where parking and stuff is and other elements of the plan. So, um, on the second board, we got into a little bit more detail, you know, identifying some of those items on there and also showing some character imagery of, you know, what maybe some of these faces might look like. You know, it's not necessarily saying that it's going to be exactly this or exactly that, but it's providing a little bit more um description of that. So it also kind of highlighted the kind of the big idea um and how the downtown vision is organized with in the upper right hand corner showing kind of the existing circulation system working through downtown and then kind of building and improving upon that um to essentially connect 40 to the river and the river to 40 through a series of um memorable spaces and places throughout. throughout that area that creates a rich downtown environment. So, there's a couple key moves that, you know, help facilitate this. The main one kind of running through uh the middle of the downtown uh connecting Eisenhower uh on the west side and the river on the east side, envisioning a public

community space that's fronted by ground floor retail and commercial and public spaces. that really provides a memorable space kind of connect those two pieces. Um, and then kind of to the north and south of those two other secondary connections uh that allow people to kind of have access uh down to the river and uh vice versa. So, um maybe go to the next one there, Nora. Yep. Now you can hopefully see that a little bit clearer now. zooming in a little bit, but um kind of quickly running through some of the changes since we last met. Um we improved that link from Highway 40 down to the river. Um creating more activation along the riverfront as well through, you know, a series of um public spaces. One kind of engaging directly adjacent to the river. Maybe there's a seating area, place for people to kind of gather, get your feet wet along the river there. And then also maybe there's a little bit of an area for um retail establishment, um utilizing the first level of that area to eat and dine and drink and all the good things um there to kind of sit adjacent to the river. Um, we did expand some of the streetscape improvements going down towards uh the railroad tracks to the west there to provide kind of some breadcrumbs to get folks to from the railroad state or the not the railroad station, the uh depot there down to down downtown um through enhanced parking, sidewalks, street trees, etc. to kind of supplement um the

other side of Highway 40. Um this plan also showed the proposed DOT uh improvements as well along 40. Uh we did modify some of the connections going to the north and the south going from Safeway over there on Meadow Ridge and then to the north um over there by Sun River Drive which is maybe a little less obvious over by the distillery. Um, and then we did show some additional proposed development or planned development that's occurring in the downtown area right now. Yes, those two buildings right there. Um, so that's kind of a quick overview of some of the plan updates. Maybe move into what we heard a little bit from the community on the next slide. So overall, I feel like it was really wellreceived and um really appreciated the kind and friendly Frasier folks coming to visit. Um a lot of positive attitude um uh in that uh engagement event. People like the improved pedestrian and road connections and the integration of additional community spaces in the downtown. Um, also liked how the river was activated a little bit more. Um, some concerns that I heard also were probably the largest one might have been about how the C dot plans might affect people kind of crossing along 40. Um, since there's a little bit uncertainty around that, mainly for pedestrians and

stuff, just making sure that it's it's going to be safe. Um, another comment around that was making sure that whatever's modified along 40, making sure that it doesn't create a kind of a log jam for seasonal visitors coming along 40 more so than it does right now. Um, second comment was probably about parking. Is there going to be enough parking? Um, one items that that's kind of highlighted in those other diagrams we showed where some of those areas for parking were included and really it's trying to hide parking or disguise it as much as we can while still providing it, not excluding it. So, um, the idea here is that we've got tuck under parking. We utilize free parking to our best ability um and try to avoid large service lots the best that we can. Um since there's a little bit of a trade-off sometimes between integrating additional community space in there versus providing a large amount of parking and it seemed like through that dialogue with folks that was appreciated. um since the community space is uh something that's of high value. So um additionally, folks want to make sure that the downtown is local um and not totally tourist driven. Um and I think those are the main main concerns really, but I would say folks seem to be happy with it. um and didn't see uh necessarily a huge amount of concern other than what I had mentioned there. So, thanks Art. Do we want to pause there or we want to keep cruising through? Nora, yeah, actually um Sarah, do you have

thoughts on whether you'd like to pause here before we get into visions, vision, and goals? Um or board. Yeah, maybe if you could just go back to the uh graphic of the updated vision plan. I don't know if you can zoom in on that a little bit. Any thoughts or feedback comments on this guy before we move forward? Is that red part just walkability that's not road or anything like that? Okay. Like a Pearl Street type of vibe, right? Yeah. Essentially kind of an area for pedestrian focused areas. You know, there's a couple crossing areas. They're on Clayton Court and then they're on Highway 40 as well. So, um, while we're looking at that space, um, one of the things that, um, we've been thinking about with the art center is that it would be, um, uh, nice to have a small outdoor space so that when we have the opportunity, we can draw people down to this area um, like at lunchtime to see, you know, if we have a traveling um Japanese drum corps, we would do a 20 minute lunchtime um performance where people could bring their baron bag or or buy something at preferably one of the establishments nearby and come out and um see that. We wouldn't want to compete with the u music in the parks and that sort of thing at night. So, this is not intended to be a money maker or ticket selling thing. It's more intended to be a way to

bolster the local business community. Um, and so I'm curious if um that area that I see that's grassy around G or those steps up around C, if any of them were contemplated for that or are conducive to that. Yeah, I would say around C. I was thinking that could be um maybe a small area that kind of steps down um to the river where you might have a small little gathering. Um and then also kind of in between C and G there. I think there's a little bit more open kind of plaza area that could be programmed. Those little square things you're seeing there are just 10 by 10 tent. So that space I think um is probably maybe a little bit on the larger size. I don't know how many individuals, Steve, you're thinking that might be. Uh so those little tiny squares are 10 x10s. Yeah. All right. That that just gives me a sense of the the area because you know eventually would like to move the Alpine Art here. Um you know, and again try and bolster the the local business community. But uh um all right. Uh that that at least helps me get a picture in my head. Any other thoughts, questions, feedback? Otherwise, I'll let them go on. All right, go for it. Great. Thanks, Sarah. Thank you. Um, so this um these these vision and goals um they're not meant to be exactly what your um plan of development has, but they're meant to complement them. So um just keep that in mind as as we walk through them here. But the the draft

vision statement for um downtown Frasier is to create a vibrant and inviting downtown that embodies the individuality of Frraasier through thriving businesses, lively community spaces, walkable destinations, and local character. And then um we've got goals and then strategies which nest under the goals and then kind of action steps that nest under each strategy. Um so our first goal is to create an environment where walking, biking and rolling feels uh fun, easy and accessible. First strategy under this goal is improve signage and wayfinding for easier navigation. So, um, like you were mentioning earlier, artistic monuments, um, local artists, uh, working with Winter Park and other, um, regional partners to identify signage and wayfinding deficiencies, and then really at some point, um, working towards a signage and wayfinding plan. Second strategy is to improve um, pedestrian and vehicular safety. Um, so safety on Highway 40. um integrate safety best practices into the design of future roads and pathways. Um incorporating crime prevention through environmental design. Um adding sidewalks to existing and proposed roadways that are ADA accessible. Um inventory the current deficiencies and projected um replacement timelines um for pedestrian infrastructure in the um capital improvement plan. widen the Frasier River Trail to separate cyclists from pedestrians. And then um in high-speed or hightraic areas, consider grade separated crossings. Uh third strategy is expand and improve mobility options. Um so looking at a a P3 for a shared use parking lot or

garage in downtown Frasier. um working with the railroad to create additional parking on the east side of the tracks as we've shown in in the vision plan, improving roadways or um getting additional parallel parking on Highway 40, installing public EV charging stations, um conducting a parking analysis and or parking master plan. Uh acquire property and budget to make roadway connections to the Safeway and Sun River Drive. work with the lift to improve bus service, um support C do um the C dot Colorado mountain rail plan and create an affordable and seasonal ondemand ebike share system. Um next strategy is allocate and design space that's friendly to walk, bike, and roll. So, um update the code for the riverwalk district um to secure uh 12 foot sidewalks when uh buildings face roadways um to allow for more street trees and sight furnishings. Um and then design streets using best practices um that are naturally safe for cyclists. Goal two is build a lively and sustainable business environment that supports um small local shops and businesses reflecting the town's unique and fun spirit. Strategy here is to um promote business diversity, local businesses and entrepreneurs um that is appealing to locals and visitors. So providing incentives to desired businesses um providing incubator spaces uh create marketing collateral and then um just investing in public infrastructure. Next strategy is to increase foot traffic and visitation. So enhance marketing and advertising campaign through various media outlets. Provide inclusive housing that pri

prioritizes Frasier's workforce. Um, so continue to assess the Riverwalk district and housing requirements and adjust as needed. Continue to explore ways to integrate affordable um, and market rate housing for employees and then work with the partnership on additional affordable residential projects. Um, fourth strategy under this goal is to create a full day Frasier visitor experience. So, encourage um traditional lodging types beyond short-term rentals to diversify um visitation options, encourage non-competing local businesses to partner with each other, and then uh encourage future development to work towards a full day visitor experience, and make it an easier choice for weekend and time constrained visitors. Goal three is to make the Frasier River and River Trail the heart of downtown, shaping the area's identity and offering a vibrant and scenic space for residents and visitors to enjoy. Strategy is to um enhance the River Trail amenities and gathering spaces near downtown. Uh so to do that, acquire areas um intended for parks and open space to make sure that the vision is realized. Um and then securing public areas um developing detailed public space designs that work with adjacent development parcels um and enhance development. And then second strategy encourage active uses and programming along the river while respecting ecological e ecologically sensitive areas. Um so evaluate the ecological conditions and functions and provide best practice solutions. evaluate construction constraints s such as wetlands and challenging um geo geotechnical conditions and then uh again continue to evaluate the river rock district um as projects are built and make changes as

needed. Third strategy improve non-motorized access and visibility from highway 40 and Clayton Court to the river. So, integrating wayfinding signage, um, creating stronger physical connections through wider sidewalks and plazas, and then create a memorable landmark or trail head at the junction of the Frasier River Trail and downtown. Goal four is um, enhance downtown to be the go-to destination, buzzing with excitement and events every month of the year where there's always something fun for everyone. So, strategy is to enhance event and programming efforts. Um so meeting with um municipal partners to discuss kind of more valleywide events and programming and then enhance um for season programming and event planning um exploring the idea of larger events that don't conflict with adjacent communities. And then the second strategy is uh ensure high quality architectural and public realm design that's memorable and unique. So, working with the community um to plan public realm spaces um hiring local artists and then allocating budget to maintain a clean and enjoyable public realm um and working with the DDA board. I think that's it for our four goals. Um and then the associated strategies and actions. So, I'm happy to jump back to any if we want to focus in on any in particular or if there's just general feedback. Happy to discuss. Discuss goal four. That's all right. Sure. It says making the downtown the goto destination buzzing with excitement and events for every month of the year.

Now, does that mean Clayton Court as the downtown focused area? Is that what you're looking at? I think I think it's more within the DDA boundaries because I know right now the development of the downtown over by Clayton Court area is being developed to be probably the most beautiful area in Frraasier in my mind. Um, and that will slowly exclude the Safeway side and the Murdoch side. And I think that there needs to be some emphasis on that. Now, I know one of them is a big shopping center and we'd have to get Craig involved over there and Omar, but I think it would probably be wise to get them in a conversation sooner than early earlier than later. Yeah. And I'll say the DDA boundary specifically, you know, was larger. Like we talked about just doing the period of where we see the most kind of immediate short-term development. I won't even say short term. I mean, a lot of it's still long term. Um, but we did opt to go with a larger GDA boundary to those other areas in the hope that there would be um I don't even know what the right word is. is not quite redevelopment but enhancements in those areas as well, right? That those businesses would be brought along and would thrive um from any development that happened over here in Frraasier. The board of trustees also opted to include that Lion's Pond area because we're really seeing that Lion's Pond area as the front door of Frasier and an area that stands to um be enhanced with recreational amenities. So, the bike park is part of that. We've talked about outdoor anthier event space. Uh I met with Tiffany yesterday

and actually talked about just different ideas for enhancing access to the river um and kind of improving that as a recreational amenity while still making sure we're protecting the health of the river. Um so the Cushing Tier as part of their scope um it's an overall town comprehensive plan and so that actually expands beyond the boundaries of the town to some extent as well. But then they were also tasked and specifically with visioning for this Riverwalk area is kind of being focused on bird development. But I know I very much sold the bike park as an economic driver hopefully as well getting people to come hang out in that line area, recreate and then grab their coffee at the grocery or their beer at Vicious Cycle right across the street. Yeah, sure. The amphitheater I think is a huge draw because right now Currently, I know there was talks of not competing with Winter Park, but because of how much because of how much um I guess population overload there is in Winter Park, especially during events like Jazzfest or whatever, there will be no competition. They need places to go. People will be overwhelmed and want to come to another music venue on the same day. It's it's, you know, it happens to our locals. We go up there and we say, "I'm good. I want to I want to go back down to Frraasier right now." And I think that that's a huge um asset that we have that Cushing and Terrell could probably help us develop because it's also a driver for um revenue. You know, Winter Park makes who knows how much millions of dollars every year on tickets to events through chamber and all that. Whereas, you know, the bike park's not going to do that. That's going to be a free amenity. And having

an amphitheater developed sooner than later is going to be something that drives actual revenue to help us get all this done. whether we want a river, you know, park waiting area, um, surf wave, whatever. Um, something that Winter Park can't have. They're they're not going to be able to have that. Yeah. Um, but they are going to send us a lot of their population soon. Y have another comment. Um just going off of some of our discussions from our walkabout and then also about the Murdoch's shopping center. So we were just kind of discussing um on how Estus is super packed, but they have a lot of they have parking far away from town, but they have nice walkways to the downtown. um the Murdoch shopping center, depending on what the owner, maybe you have a communication discussion with the owner, but that is a huge parking resource. Um and there's also possibly Christian Terrell could help us with formulating some or making some beautiful walkability from Murdoch Shopping Center to down to the Clayton Court area. And to just add to that, Elk Creek is right there and it's highly underused as a as a visual stimulant. Um, we're focused very much on this river walk. The backside of that Murdoch shopping center is going to change eventually where you know I I know the roaster has a big patio outside and I know it's really the only one out back and we can get away with that because the view to buyers and Elk Creek is

right there that is I think going to be developed back there along Elk Creek and so the back side of that is going to be visibly blight. Soon a lot of that is going to become blight otherwise developed and used much like a very mini version of this river walk and it could be connectivity back there would be less traffic for vehicles. So it would actually be a very good way to connect both sides of the town and the DDA for walkability. Are there current plans or drawings for developing that area? Well, Clark submitted anything. The issue is that that is not our territory. Um because he excluded his properties all of his properties in Frraasier out of the DDA. So, we cannot It's still Frasier. This is Frasier. So, the board has to the board will have to present that. Well, we could ask for those from the actual board has. Yeah, I know stages off hand. He's planning like retail and mixed use back there. Well, I'm sorry. Yeah, I believe so. He's planning retail mixed use. Not 100% sure. I know that there's housing going in, but yeah, but the retail on that side, um, and the patio ability is huge on the backside, it's massive from around Murdoch's and it's just not developed yet. So, we do need to get Craig involved. But Cushing and Terrell, if they look at El Creek and they look at the ability to put sidewalks back there, that sort of thing, I think the town could that that would be huge cuz there's bus stops. There's, you know, everything's right there. It is the it is the doorway to Frasier as you or the gateway to Frasier as you say. That

whole side that whole front areas is there should be paths connecting all the way through on both sides of the town all the way back to the Amtrak. Yeah. And it would be a beautiful walk too from the back side of the Murdoch to the front side of Amtrak here. That'll really force Clark's development to walk to downtown for all that. Correct. So then because we're not getting tax dollars from him there, we could get it the other way, which is the drawing unit. But um some level of plans have been submitted for most of that and I can have Okay, cool. Just something to add to goal four here. I would like that to be looked at as well because we're just so focused on this and it is immediate and we should be and it's going to be beautiful. One thing I guess related to your initial comment about parking um that I didn't mention with the updated plan was there was the idea along Railroad Avenue to create an area for parking adjacent to the railroad over there. I know there's some maybe hurdles that need to be jumped over to get to that, but that the idea there would be that there's kind of a more regional or district-wide parking strategy where folks can have an easy place to park over there and then those roadway improvements. um provide you, you know, uh those breadcrumbs, so to say, with, you know, sidewalks, street trees that lead you over to kind of the center of the downtown, uh across 40. But I do like what you're saying about Murdoch and if there's any even a more expanded way to think about district parking over there.

I think that could be interesting. and if you're connecting into um other roadways or other ways for pedestrians and cyclists to kind of get you in and around town. Um that would be great. There's a lot of, you know, good um uh places to visit for shops and everything like that and Murdoch and things opening. Um, and it also be nice to not take those guys out of the opportunity for the tourists. Yeah. And I can't remember if we talked about this at our last few gaming or not, but Murdoch did apply for and got a business enhancement grant to enclose their dumpsters because right now there's a ton of dumpsters. This all kind of along the back side. Yeah. Um, so they are looking to to enclose those and have f cash pick up more often so that they don't need as many of them. So I think that'll be a nice little improvement along the back side of the building there. They are actually looking at just moving all of them. Um, and I think they applied for 38 grand, right? That was the total cost and they they applied for half of that. Yeah, we should talk about that in the future because I have information about that. But um I do think that those pathways back there from the back side of Murdoch's all the way to the front side of Amtrak would be huge for biking. So along the highway here and the river walk is going to be so flooded with people. It is hard like if you walk from let's say in Winter Park, you walk from Winter Park to Winter Park Resort on the River Trail there. They've now had to go in and widen that because there's too many accidents with long borders and biking and, you know, people stretching all the way across that. It's just not wide enough. I ran into that yesterday

actually just kind of biking down through there that you almost hit people and you're going pretty slow. Um, but that would make an easy bike path along the back to connect and kind of get them off of the river trail some cuz right now that's you come around the corner on your bike and you're running into somebody or their dog. Um, and so that could just be a really great way to kind of move different types of just have different mobility and it's a little longer too, you know, versus just like a straight cut down the highway or just over there. So, it does add for the people that do want to kind of bike around a little sightseeing and scenic time on their bike, but it's only a couple minutes extra. even incorporate some of those roads and just have, you know, like painted side lines or painted bikes on the road to say like bikes this way, this way. Yeah. Like like a bike Yeah. bike have their greenway or whatever. I think that would be really cool. We need that here. Okay. other feedback or the plan. Well, thank you Nora and our Yeah, thank you for all the feedback. We appreciate it. Yeah, thanks. Thanks again. That's why you're want to do it. You're not want to have this clogging up these. That'd be terrible. You want them they can get to that. Just gonna get out and around.

Yeah, sure. All right. Um, can we move to reschedule the DDA events? Yes. So, we were looking at happy hour. people had talked about trash pickup potentially combining them. Um I apologize the spring day fell through and then I only found dates for a couple people that it worked for kind of the same day in June. Um the date we were looking at the chambers having an event. It seems like it would make sense to try not compete with the chamber. Um particularly if we're trying to get business owners and whatnot to participate. Um, I think summer's just becomes a really hard time to schedule anything with everybody in and out and um I know my my June is really stacked. So, I I'm looking at stuff later in the summer unless there's really an impetus to try to do something sooner. Um, but wanted to kind of throw out the first week in August. Then we can maybe try to do something else sometime in the fall, later in the fall before you get into like the holiday season. What weekend is mural? Mural fest is that first weekend in August. You think maybe right before it? I had the thought that if we did it the week after in terms of trash pickup, it could be in between neural fest and travel in the park. Okay. Um and that that might might make sense. Um and honestly that week just my personal schedule. Um, but wanted to see what what people thought. Um, I know Thursday was thrown out. The one day I can't do is Wednesday because we have a board meeting. So, we'd be looking at that week of the board through the day

late afternoon trash pick up. Mural Fest is uh second and third. Is that right? Yes. So the eth would potentially be pretty good because it wouldn't be Saturday. I would not it's Friday. Um just for the g people are in and out and that rebel in the park will be going on starting then. But if we wanted to do something during the week. Okay. So Wednesday, Thursday. I think Wednesdays, Thursdays are kind of leading to the weekend. You know, people are kind of ready to do something. So, if we did it after, you know, after work at like uh 4:30ish or something, we can meet maybe at CBER or something and go from there on Thursday. Kind of bring people there and in there at Vicious um or be or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, suggested around kind of area. We can kind of see between now and then. I mean, if you were trying to do clean up after Mural Park, I think it would make sense to do it more down here. Um, but yeah, do like an hour invite people or not an hour. Sure. Or like a point A to point B type of deal. Start somewhere, end somewhere. I heard Thursday, Thursday the 7th of between now and then. I'd recommend uh just probably not camber for the first one um just to be fair. So yeah, and that's what we had originally talked

about just to to use I mean we did simple and vicious businesses that don't try to get those business activities a bit. Okay. And then as we go we could Yeah, that's that's just the area where there's going to be so many murals. So it's definitely going to be where the trash is. Maybe beer code them as in Yeah, because um her name is escaping me right now. Angie's not on the board anymore, so um Okay, maybe Frasier Beer Co. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's a good idea option. So, it's kind of in between. I mean, it's not very far away from Camber, so that's right. Not far. Maybe Frasier Beerco. Would it work for people if we looked like a Monday or Tuesday? I feel like those sometimes are the slower nights in the brewery for versus trying to compete with like a trivia night, right? Be trivia night is on Tuesdays. Um I think they have bingo on Thursdays. Um Mondays are always really dead because nobody's open. Like no no no food places are open on Mondays. So that would be an option. It' be like right after Mural Fest and all that too. So might be a good time to do it. I guess that'd be what the fifth, fourth. Um, so just like it just does. Okay, that's at like seven, right? Okay. So if we did it like four to six maybe like we always like work our way towards vicious too. Yeah. And then it would be even busier for him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They might like or not because Yeah. It's usually pretty crazy

in there. Nate Nate would love that. I think that it's plenty of space there. Big area. It's huge. It's huge. Um, yeah. All right. Um, there's also Okay, so that sounds good. Bike park and other town updates. It is 11:00. Yeah, we don't really need to move through that. Uh, I had just added the bike park to the agenda because there's a petition going around town right now um for a biker that died, Joel Alamo. He's he was admitted into the Hall of Fame for BMX. He's by far one of the most influential um bikers that lived here and he contributed so many signs and his time to Frasier that people are feeling the need to name the bike park after him and his name Alamo or remember the Alamo or something like that. Um, I think it would just be something that we should add to an agenda at some point or bring I've I've contacted the organizers and said that they need to bring it to the town um, officially, but that I would go ahead and mention that it might be a possibility that they're going to do this, you know, and I said I don't think there's the need for a petition. I think there's the need for it to actually be brought up as a discussion. So cool. Um, with that being said, approved moving forward with a construction contract with AVID for up to 1.1 million. Um, we currently have just under a million. We're at like 986,000.

So, we are putting together a sponsorship package and we'll be sending that out to businesses. Um, so it' be great if you know of any businesses that may be interested. We're trying to figure out exactly what it looks like, but there will be opportunities for signage and logos within the bike park for some of of the participating sponsors. We should just talk to Craig from Murdoch's area cuz he would be a good overall asset to that and I know that it's right across the road and they want to draw business back and forth. So maybe he's he's the owner and he has a good vision for that whole area too. So yeah, I can make that happen. Okay. Um I move to Can we make a motion to adjurnn here? Second. All in favor? Hi. Hi.