Sandpoint council hears design kickoff for downtown revitalization phase 3

The Sandpoint City Council on March 5 received a design update for downtown Revitalization Phase 3, a streetscape, utilities and traffic project that will pick up at First Avenue north of Bridge Street and extend as far south as available urban renewal funding allows.

City project manager and city forester Eric Busch said the city will issue a request for proposals to hire a design and engineering team and that the design phase will likely run about a year to 18 months. “This is just a starting point for us,” Busch said, describing intersection improvements at Bridge/First and First/Superior, corridor pedestrian and utility work and related stormwater and parking analyses.

The project team will use multiple prior planning documents as a starting point, including the 2012 Downtown Streets Plan and Design…