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Council directs staff to proceed with Neal Street beautification strategy design concepts; larger road‑diet planning continues
Summary
Council heard an update on the Neal Street Corridor Beautification Strategy and polled to direct staff to implement the strategy’s design concepts now while coordinating with the longer‑range engineering study for a potential road diet; the poll passed 7–0.
Senior planner Jeff Marino presented the Neal Street Corridor Beautification Strategy update and asked the council for direction to continue implementing corridor beautification concepts while the city’s phase‑1 preliminary design report evaluates larger geometric changes to the roadway.
The decision matters because Neal Street is a major city entryway connecting the interstate to downtown; the corridor plan aims to improve safety, walkability and the corridor’s identity while the engineering study will examine a potential three‑lane (road diet) cross section and other reconstruction elements.
Jeff Marino reviewed the history: Neal Street improvements were identified in the 1992 comprehensive plan and advanced in a 2018 Neal Street Corridor Improvement Plan adopted by council. The city later secured state funds and…
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