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Master PlanUpper Arlington City Council adopted the City’s new Master Plan in March 2001. This important document marks the beginning of a major endeavor to revitalize and realize the community’s vision for the City over the coming decades. It preserves and enhances the residential nature of Upper Arlington while encouraging the development of existing commercial areas as higher-density, mixed-use centers. As elements of the Master Plan are implemented and used as guiding principles, this vision for Upper Arlington helps meet the growing fiscal needs of the community, enhances the overall quality of life for residents and corporate citizens, and provides an appropriate decision-making framework for a broad range of City issues.Why Update the Master Plan? Landlocked and fully developed, less than five percent of the City’s land use is currently dedicated to commercial activities and, of this, only 1.1 percent is in office use. Local income tax is a key source of revenue for the City and, as such, infrastructure maintenance and City service demands are outpacing the City’s funding capacity. Goals of the Master Plan • Land Use - Recognize the City’s residential nature while enhancing community redevelopment and revitalization. • Economy - Emphasize creation of a strong, diverse economy while respecting the community’s residential nature. • Community Appearance - preserve and enhance the City’s neighborhoods, parks and architectural amenities. • Community Facilities - maintain and expand community facilities to provide diverse recreational, social and cultural opportunities. • Community Services - provide quality, cost-effective community services. • Housing - facilitate in the provision of a range of well-built housing using old and new housing stock to accommodate people of all ages. • Transportation - provide a comprehensive, safe and convenient network. • Implementation - emphasize accountability, fiscal soundness, monitoring and appropriate regulations while fostering citizen and business involvement in the Master Plan’s effective implementation. Implementation Strategies One hundred eighty-four specific strategies fall within four key actions the City must undertake to realize the overall goals of the Plan: • Undertake redevelopment using the Study Area Plans as the framework - key areas currently comprised of primarily commercial land are identified for potential redevelopment. Through redevelopment, it is desirable to create places that have a mix of use – office, retail, residential and civic – organized in a more traditional development pattern with high design quality and a pedestrian-friendly setting. The key areas are: Kingsdale Shopping Center; Tremont Center; Henderson Road corridor; Lane Avenue corridor; Northwest Boulevard (south of Zollinger); the Mallway; and commercial areas along SR 33. • Create land use tools - to enhance and protect the character of the City’s physical environment while giving specific guidance and control for redevelopment. • Provide incentives to encourage desirable change - to stay competitive in the region and attract desirable development, the City must consider economic and zoning incentives. • Improve the City’s fiscal capacity - ensure the community has adequate, stable funding. Redevelopment strategies are designed to encourage greater intensity of land use in existing commercial areas and emphasize more office development to generate new revenues. Development Department City of Upper Arlington 3600 Tremont Road Upper Arlington, OH 43221 Phone: 614-583-5070 Fax: 614-583-5065 www.ua-ohio.net |
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