Non-peak, on-street parking recommended for portions of Historic Dublin
At the Feb. 8 Dublin City Council meeting, City Manager Terry Foegler presented a memo that outlined a recommendation from the Administration and Goody Clancy & Associates for the provision of non-peak, on-street parallel parking along portions of Bridge Street, North High Street and North Street.
Speaker Series
Tuesday, December 1
Density, Demographics and Development: A Panel of Experts
6:30 p.m. | The Conference Center at OCLC | 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin
| The Case for Density: Designing Great Communities | |
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Using Density to Create Livability (PDF) Presented by David Dixon, FAIA, Principal-in-charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody Clancy & Associates and Principal Urban Designer for the Bridge Street Corridor Study David Dixon, a nationally recognized urban designer, most recently led a consulting team for the Master Plan and Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for the City of New Orleans. He also was a key member of the consulting team, along with Mt. Auburn Associates, who helped form Dublin’s foundational economic development strategy in the early 1990s. |
| Build it So They Will Come: What the Approaching Demographic Shift Means for Future Housing Demand within our Cities and in Communities Like Dublin | |
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Housing Market Analysis (PDF) Presented by Laurie Volk, Principal-in-charge, Zimmerman/Volk Associates Laurie Volk will share her research on the imminence of what she calls the “Pig in the Python” effect, where 76 million baby boomers and their 75 million adult children – the “Millennials” – are slowly migrating from the suburbs into cities and town centers seeking the expanded range of lifestyle choices they offer. Volk’s ground-breaking application of geo-demographics to real estate market dynamics has been instrumental in bringing Zimmerman/Volk Associates into national prominence. |
| Developing Common Ground: How Communities and Community Builders Can Optimize Development Value | |
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Commercial Market Analysis (PDF) Presented by Sarah Woodworth, Managing Member of W-ZHA, LLC Sarah Woodworth will share her findings on the commercial and hospitality market demand in and around Dublin, and how the right blend of land uses can dramatically enhance the potential for high-quality development. With more than 20 years of experience, Woodworth specializes in market and financial feasibility analysis, cooperative development agreement structuring, innovative public financing strategies and urban revitalization. |
Wednesday, December 2
Bridge Street Corridor Study Visioning Session
6:30 p.m. | Dublin Community Recreation Center | 5600 Post Road
The session is an excellent opportunity for members of the public to share their visions for the future of the Bridge Street Corridor with members of City staff and the project consultant, Goody Clancy & Associates.
Thursday, November 19
Economic Development in the 21st Century: Attracting the Next Generation of the American Workforce and the Implications for Communities Like Dublin
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Presented by Carol Coletta, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities 6:30 p.m. |
Carol Coletta, an expert on national urban issues, will discuss what it will take to attract the high tech and entrepreneurial jobs of the future. In 2008, Coletta was named one of the world’s 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank. |
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Tuesday, October 27
From Drivable Suburbanism to Walkable Urbanism: The Powerful Forces Reshaping the Next Generation of Urban and Suburban Development
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Presented by Christopher B. Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution 6:30 p.m. |
The Structural Shift in Building the Built Environment Christopher Leinberger is the author of “The Option of Urbanism – Investing in a New American Dream,” and is an internationally recognized land use strategist, developer and researcher. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where his research is focused on practices that help transform traditional and suburban downtowns into walkable, urban spaces. |
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Bridge Street Corridor Study Speaker Series
The City of Dublin is engaging in a study intended to develop a community-based vision for Dublin’s most critical corridor: Bridge Street/state Route 161, from I-270 to Sawmill Road, including the Historic District. The Bridge Street Corridor Study will evaluate development and redevelopment opportunities to create a more substantial, walkable, urban environment. The study includes extensive participation from a broad array of community stakeholders, and will be grounded in market and housing analyses to ensure that the vision developed through this planning effort is economically viable.
In conjunction with the study, Dublin is sponsoring a Speaker Series, inviting real estate, market and urban design and development experts to both challenge and inform this planning process. The speaker series will help establish an understanding of the broader trends and economic forces that are likely to shape economic development, place-making, housing preferences and other issues critical to preserving and enhancing both the quality of life and long-term economic value within communities like Dublin over the next few decades. For more information, see the Speaker Series schedule is listed below. Download a PDF flier.
The City of Dublin wants to know what you think:
Please take a few minutes and fill out our brief survey about the Bridge Street Corridor.
From Drivable Suburbanism to Walkable Urbanism
An increasing number of national experts are predicting that key demographic shifts and associated changes in market and housing preferences will result in a significantly lower level of demand for traditional, auto-oriented suburban developments in coming years. These experts project that demand will grow increasingly for more densely developed places that offer a wider variety of housing choices and provide more walkable opportunities to live, work and play. What are these emerging trends and forces? How are they likely to impact development over the next 20 years? How are these changes likely to affect communities like Dublin, which are largely developed as lower density suburban places? What must communities like Dublin do to remain competitive as major centers of employment, to protect the community’s quality of life, and to preserve and protect the value of real estate in our community?Join us for the Bridge Street Corridor Study Speaker Series where these questions will be addressed.
Bridge Street Corridor Study
The City of Dublin has begun work on a strategic study of our community’s central core, the Bridge Street Corridor. Containing some of our community’s most valued assets (like Historic Dublin) as well as some of our most strategic redevelopment opportunities, current economic conditions have created a unique time for the community to explore new avenues of preservation and growth in this important corridor.
The completion of this study and the implementation of its recommendations are a high priority for Dublin City Council and Terry Foegler, Dublin City Manager. Foegler will be applying his extensive planning, development and mixed-use expertise to his leadership of the Bridge Street Corridor Study.
The City expects great interest and engagement from the community in this exciting study and looks forward to working with all who participate. What the community creates from this process will become a dynamic framework for implementation to help inform decisions about future development and investment decisions in this vital portion of our City.
We promise to take the time to create the right vision for this corridor. We will listen to all who participate in the process. We invite you to join the conversation.
The Corridor
For the purposes of this study, the Bridge Street Corridor is defined by the I-270/U.S. 33 interchange to the west and Sawmill Road to the east. It is bounded to the north by I-270 and by properties along the south side of State Route 161, known locally as Bridge Street. The corridor will also include a heightened level of attention to Historic Dublin and portions of the OCLC campus and Dublin Village Center.
The Study
The Bridge Street Corridor Study represents an exciting opportunity for the community to contribute their ideas to the creation of a vision that will shape future development of the City’s central core. This study will involve a market-based approach to:
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Building on the strong character of Historic Dublin;
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Studying opportunities for additional high-value commercial, hospitality, retail and residential and mixed-use development;
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Developing new and sustainable futures for distressed retail centers;
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Expanding access to public places for gathering and recreation;
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Ensuring the long-term sustainability of Dublin from social, economic and environmental perspectives; and,
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Looking closely at changing demographic and housing trends impacting our community, examining the emerging housing preferences of our future workforce, and studying the growing trend toward the creation of mixed-use, walkable environments in suburban communities around the country.
To lead this effort, the City has retained the services of Goody Clancy & Associates, an award-winning, Boston-based firm with extensive expertise in urban planning, historic preservation and development. When Terry Foegler was President of Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment, he worked with Goody Clancy representatives on the High Street Visioning Study for that area of The Ohio State University. Goody Clancy was also one of the consultants who assisted with the preparation of Dublin’s first Economic Development Strategy in the early 1990s.
Goody Clancy has begun interviewing stakeholders in the community and will be seeking ideas and input from the public later this summer and fall. Goody Clancy is also thoroughly reviewing all of the previous plans, studies, proposals and other planning efforts the City has undertaken and will incorporate relevant components into the Bridge Street Corridor Study.
Contact & Information
Please contact Rachel Ray, Planner, Office of the City Manager, at 614-410-4463 or rray@dublin.oh.us for more information regarding this effort.
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Join the conversation
Want to share your ideas or questions about the future of this corridor?
