2nd Avenue to Maintain Current Traffic Patterns

July 10, 2020

At the Special Meeting of Council on July 9, 2020, Council approved staff’s recommendation to maintain the status quo along 2^nd Avenue downtown. At Council’s previous direction, staff engaged the public and stakeholders on possible temporary changes to accommodate one-way traffic along 2^nd Avenue between 4^th and 7^th Street in support of business recovery this summer. The City collected feedback between June 19 and July 2, 2020, and results were presented to Council with the recommendation to maintain the status quo, based on the following key factors:

• The primary objective of the proposed project was to support potential businesses’ expansion into the public space, and 70% of businesses on 2^nd Avenue indicated they would not use part of the street to expand for the summer;
• The majority business community in the directly affected project area did not support or were neutral to the proposal, and were either ambivalent to the changes or saw them as negative;
• Administration had no data that would indicate proposed changes would result in better business recovery.

Council approved the recommendation.

Staff intend to incorporate additional feedback from the 2^nd Avenue survey into the community engagement scope of work for the Integrated Transportation Master Plan project. 

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