design ROLES AND FIRST-YEAR ACTIVITIES
Purpose
Internal Tasks
Internal Tasks
- Provide design education and technical assistance
- Develop financial assistance and incentives
- Plan public improvements
- Provide design regulation and review
Internal Tasks
Internal Tasks
Internal Tasks
- Draft a committee work plan
- Conduct a building inventory
- Review codes and ordinances
- Inventory and evaluate technical and financial resources available for design improvements
External Tasks
Internal Tasks
External Tasks
- Conduct merchant/building owner visits in conjunction with program director
- Hold a "Clean-Up Day"
- Conduct a traffic/parking study
- Draft voluntary design guidelines
- Provide improvement incentives, such as grants, loans, discounts and technical design services
- Produce a design incentives brochure
- Identify and solicit a minimum of four solid commitments to rehabilitate buildings