2009 Vision – Introduction

In early May of last year, our group formally began our work by writing our vision for downtown – a combination of a high-level sketch of what downtown should become melded with specific positions and issues for our group address in the year ahead.  In that paper we first laid out our initial position on the isthmus rezone.

Though little has changed from last year to this year in terms of our future vision for downtown Olympia, our 2009 vision paper is written in terms more general than our vision paper of a year ago – more vision, less position.  Our future positions and work will be based on the platform established in our annual vision paper.

Our Downtown Vision for 2009 will focus on four key items: Housing, Parking & Transit, Economic Vitality and Arts & Entertainment.  The work OLY 2012 will engage in over the next year will be directly linked to these issues.

Housing

Housing remains at the top of our list of key issues for downtown.  In order for downtown to thrive economically, people – all kinds of people – must be there at all times of the day and night.  In this day and age, getting Read the rest of this entry »