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Ames council accepts downtown guiding vision, asks Ames Main Street to lead implementation task force
Summary
The Ames City Council unanimously accepted a downtown guiding vision and asked Ames Main Street to convene a stakeholder task force to prioritize near-term actions and return recommendations to the council.
The Ames City Council voted to accept a downtown guiding vision and asked Ames Main Street to convene an implementation task force to prioritize short-term actions and report back to the city.
City staff described the guiding vision as a nonbinding set of ideas and possible action steps created by downtown stakeholders and Ames Main Street. Staff said the document is intended as a menu of options rather than a rigid blueprint and noted the city could adopt policies or funding for individual projects if it chose to pursue them.
The council discussed three ways to pursue implementation: (1)…
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