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Akron planning department details Inner Belt master plan, pedestrian safety and housing priorities
Summary
Planning Director Kyle Julian outlined 2025 priorities including the Inner Belt master plan, a Summit Lake pedestrian safety plan, HUD-funded housing programs and efforts to ease infill development during a city budget meeting.
Kyle Julian, director of planning, told Akron council members at a budget meeting that the Department of Planning and Urban Development will focus in 2025 on finalizing the Inner Belt master plan, finishing a Summit Lake pedestrian safety plan and updating the city’s land-use regulations.
Julian said AMATS (the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study) and the department’s long-range planning and zoning divisions will lead the work that supports federal funding and neighborhood-level projects. “AMATS ensures that the Akron area has a continuing cooperative and comprehensive transportation planning process which is necessary in order to receive federal funds for transportation infrastructure projects in the region,” Julian said.
The department is administering a pedestrian safety master plan in the Summit Lake neighborhood that Julian described as near finalization and noted a second public meeting on the Inner Belt process…
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