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Advisory subcommittees outline priorities: maintenance ordinance, civic wellness, sustainability projects
Summary
Subcommittees reported priorities for a yearlong work plan: the economic/business-district group prioritized a maintenance-and-vacancy ordinance, pedestrian-friendly activation and bicycle racks; the civic wellness committee proposed measuring civic wellness and hosting a nonprofit summit; the sustainability committee discussed plastic-reduction policy, food-forest and conduit-for-undergrounding ideas.
Committee chairs summarized the subcommittees' priorities and asked that those priorities feed into a consolidated work plan. The economic/business-district committee listed revising the maintenance-and-vacancy ordinance, activating business districts through pedestrianization and street improvements, rightsizing Washington Road, and adding bicycle racks as priorities.
The civic wellness committee proposed a three-part framework to measure civic wellness (third places/use, organizational activity, and participation in town policy) and suggested hosting a nonprofit summit. The sustainability committee reported exploring expanded recycling and composting, investigating a Miyawaki tiny-forest and other tree-canopy projects, and examining opportunities to install conduit for future underground utilities during reconstruction projects.
