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Bexley land-use strategy emphasizes canopy, walkability; report draft expected within months
Summary
Building and planning director Matt Klingler told the Tree and Public Gardens Commission that the city's land use strategy work is nearing a public report. The strategy focuses on commercial districts and includes recommendations on canopy and walkability; Main Street design-guideline updates are planned after the report.
Matt Klingler, Bexley's director of building and planning, told the Tree and Public Gardens Commission Feb. 19 that the city's land use strategy has been active for more than a year and that staff hope to publish a draft report soon. "The report will be ready, I don't know, within the next 2 to 3 months to be distributed to the public," Klingler said.
Klingler described the study as a broad evaluation of commercial districts'needs and opportunities: Ferndale/Mayfield, Main Street West (Cassidy to Alum Creek), Main Street East (Cassidy to Chelsea/Gould), and North Cassidy. He said public workshops, a market analysis and outreach to local stakeholders informed the visioning. "What you're seeing is a lot of desire for tree canopy, walkability, public spaces, taking Main Street and parts of Bexley and making it more amenable to walking, to congregating," he said.
He told the commission a separate refresh of the city's Main Street design guidelines is planned after the land use strategy is finalized; Klingler anticipated the design-guideline work could begin in the second quarter. "Once we finish the land use strategy and we have the overarching kind of theme of where we want to go, we'll start the Main Street design guideline refresh," Klingler said.
Klingler also alerted the commission that Community Builders had submitted applications for projects at 2300 Livingston and 420 North Cassidy; those applications will appear before the commission in the next month. He said the police station landscape plan will also be scheduled for review in March.
What it means for the commission: Klingler said the land use strategy is meant to provide high-level guidance and that the tree commission's input will be solicited during the next phase when more specific design guidelines are drafted for commercial corridors. "When we get into the Main Street design guidelines for sure, that seems like a time where we would look to you all for input," Klingler said.
