Idea Wall

Create a directory of businesses owned and operated locally excluding franchises and other businesses that take money out of our community

Need downtown gathering spaces: replace Civic Center event space, movie theatre, more outdoor space like Rose Bowl, convert LSM parking lot.

* Feedback received from 12/07/21 Historic East Urbana Neighborhood Conversation. Uploaded by A. Ruedi.

Boneyard Incorporation

I believe it was more than a decade ago Urbana hired a consulting firm to generate Ideas for the future Urbana. If I recall correctly a/the central project was rejuvenation of Boneyard Creek. Two plans [or more] were submitted. One put the emphasis on Race north of Griggs and the other incorporating the Boneyard north of Main and west of Race. I lobbied, not hard enough, for incorporating Main. While the Griggs location was nicely done I believe we could have gotten more “bang for our buck” with the Main effort, although I believe it was more expensive. This our chance to make downtown Urbana more beautiful, more economically viable, more cohesive and put us on par with other cities that embrace a similar size water feature to its great advantage e.g. San Luis Obispo. I assume that “Main Street” plan still exists somewhere. We don’t need to pay another consultant. Let’s use this opportunity [ImagineUrbana] to imagine a beautiful creekside Urbana. Thank you. Dennis Vidoni

Have concrete plan for development of decaying Urbana Adult Ed Center/USD116 Central Office prop. (211 N Race) - but not enough room here :(

Spreading Boneyard beautification south of W Griggs St - City Educational-retail complex along creek!

Preserve tree canopy city-wide. Infill trees where low % of canopy. This is a climate change & heat island environmental justice imperative.