Geneva seeks residents’ input for downtown plan

A workshop will be held for people to contribute ideas for Geneva’s Downtown Master Plan at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the cafeteria at Geneva High School, 416 McKinley Ave.

Consultants, the downtown master plan advisory committee and city staff conducted workshops, surveys and focus group discussions last year. The results are in a 106-page report, “City of Geneva Existing Synthesis Report for Downtown,” that can be viewed at hlplanning.com/dnn/Default.aspx?alias=www.hlplanning.com/dnn/geneva.

Wednesday participants will discuss new residential development, adaptive reuse and expansion of buildings, parking, transit, pedestrian and bicycle movement, priority redevelopment sites, scale and intensity of new development, mixed-use development opportunities, open space, historic preservation priorities and uses for government facilities. Illustrations and other visualization techniques will be used to stimulate ideas and facilitate discussion.

The results will be used to make vision statements, a list of principles and a list of goals and objectives for city use.

For details about the workshop or the planning process, contact Dick Untch, community development director, at (630) 232-0818, or duntch@geneva.il.us.