City Council's Economic Development Committee (EDC) will hold public hearings on two proposed documents that could shape the look of the Montgomery Road business district in Kennedy Heights.
Both the Kennedy Heights Urban Design Plan and its enforcement arm, the Urban Design Overlay District are ready to be adopted by City Council.
The plan is the result of a market feasibility study conducted on the corridor between 2004 and 2005 as an outgrowth of the comprehensive community plan of 2003.
Earlier this year, the Kennedy Heights Community Council (KHCC) asked the City to use the feasibility study - along with feedback from several public meetings and site visits to area businesses - as the official urban design plan that would protect the characteristics of their neighborhood business district (NBD).
The plan suggests that the NBD should prepare itself for an up-and-coming demographic by gearing itself toward neighborhood service uses, including mixed-use buildings, cafes and restaurants, bookstores and music venues and galleries.
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