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Board works to update design guidelines and promote DDA banner call for art
Summary
Members agreed to locate past design-guideline documents, review districts starting with downtown, and support a DDA artist open call (deadline May 18) for historic-photo-based banners intended to refresh downtown placemaking.
Board members discussed several items aimed at improving public outreach and design guidance downtown. They said prior versions of city design guidelines (1990s, 2007, possibly 2017) should be located in city archives and reviewed; the plan is to examine guidelines district-by-district beginning with downtown so the DDA has a framework for facade-improvement grants.
Cas Rapha, the DDA coordinator, described a revamped banner program and an artist open call requiring at least one historic photo of downtown; the call closes May 18 and the DDA is assembling an approved photo library to share with artists. Rapha asked the board to support promotion via social media and offered printed flyers. Members discussed tying social posts to Preservation Week (April 27) and whether to take a positive-angle success story or a more critical historical remembrance tied to the 1971 Carnegie Library demolition.
Why it matters: updated design guidelines and coordinated placemaking efforts can help channel facade grants and public art toward consistent historic interpretation of downtown. The banner open call is an immediate outreach action that will shape downtown visuals and historic storytelling.
What’s next: staff and the DDA will coordinate promotional posts and share flyers and asset links with board members.
