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� s Strategy 1c Actions Develop a consistent quality in sites • Create design guidelines for sites, buildings and signs that and buildings to protect the encourage consistency (but not uniformity) in materials, scale, 40 investment that property and business construction quality and details from one building to the next. owners make in downtown • Establish a process for reviewing proposals for change to downtown through the MCP Design Committee(as an advisory group to developers and the City). • Establish loan programs for storefronts and building infrastruc- ture to encourage investment in downtown buildings and sites. • Identify five downtown businesses for participation in the loan program. Strategy 1 d Actions Maintain downtown • Create a maintenance program to address street and sidewalk in a consistent manner cleaning and snow removal, litter collection, amenity care and other factors that keep downtown "clean" and protect the investment the businesses and community make in their down- town. • Pursue a downtown maintenance association or a special ser- vice district to achieve consistent maintenance. Strategic Outcome - • A downtown that meets the needs and desires of its customers while respecting the financial needs and investment of business and property owners. Strategic Target • Establishment of a maintenance program and vehicle by the 411 beginning of 1998. • Establishment of design guidelines and a review process by September 1997. • Establishment of a loan program by June 1997. • Reconstruction of downtown streets with added pedestrian amenities coordinated with major reconstruction (based on life cycle of streets or related infrastructure). • Five downtown businesses participating in storefront and/or infrastructure loan program in 1997, with improvements com- pleted by end of 1998. Strategy 2: A center for community Strategy 2a Actions Create a civic and institutional core to • Establish control of parcels that encompass the civic/institu- house the functions of the downtown tional core as indicated in the plan. that relate to the social and civic needs • Establish land use controls permitting civic and institutional of the Monticello community,and to uses in that part of the plan designated as the civic/institutional create the"new bridge"between the core downtown/riverfront area and the • Relocate Ferrellgas and bulk tank facilities to create land for highway-oriented commercial area development of civic and institutional facilities and to elimi- nate visually undesirable uses. 411 • Vacate 5-1/2 Street to provide additional land for new facilities A New Bridge Revitalizing Montkello's Downtown and Rlverfront Page 4:26