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Planning staff outlines 'Destination Middletown' special interest areas and recommends overlay guidelines
Summary
Planning staff presented eight 'special interest areas' and recommended turning development 'shoulds' into codified overlay standards as part of a development-code update; staff emphasized pedestrian design, buffers from industrial zones and pending community feedback.
Planning staff presented the "Destination Middletown" package at the Feb. 11 Planning Commission meeting, describing eight special interest areas and recommending that the development guidelines for those areas be considered for formal overlay regulations in the city's development code update. The presentation covered visions and site-design guidance for districts that include the Undeveloped East End (Union Wren Farms), the Town Mall site, Todd Hunter, South Main Street, the Oakland neighborhood and Vail School site, the paperboard parcel undergoing remediation, the riverfront and the Central Avenue corridor.
Staff said the East End is envisioned as an emerging employment…
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