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District 5 Community Engagement

27th Avenue To Do List

Draft: 5/21/2019

VISION: 

An active, safe, and welcoming community with vibrant retail and sustainable housing

Goal 1: Increase curb appeal along 27th Avenue through corridor beautification

  • Strategy 1: Encourage well-lit pedestrian connections to business entryways throughout the 27th Avenue Corridor.
  • Strategy 2: Encourage high quality landscape and streetscape treatments along 27th Avenue, such as signage, facade improvements, and landscaping to create a safe and welcoming pedestrian environment.

Goal 2: Create a vibrant and connected commercial corridor that serves nearby neighborhoods

  • Strategy 1: Encourage safe, frequent, and shaded pedestrian crossings between neighborhoods, commercial retail, and restaurant land uses.
  • Strategy 2: Encourage the development of gathering spaces throughout the 27th Avenue corridor.
  • Strategy 3:  Partner with 19North on projects, programs, and initiatives to build synergies amongst the two commercial corridors and with the planned redevelopment of Metrocenter.
  • Strategy 4: Facilitate coordination between businesses through the North Ocotillo Business Alliance and the D27 Business Alliance for their respective target areas and encourage collaboration amongst the two groups.

Goal 3: Communicate and advocate for high quality development and reinvestment

  • Strategy 1: Develop a Neighborhood Identity that includes the Canyon Corridor as an International District.
  • Strategy 2: Establish a marketing plan and strategy to engage partner organizations on meaningful projects.
  • Strategy 3: Promote and leverage available tools, programs, and incentives to advance the vision for a vibrant 27th Avenue.
  • Strategy 4: Continue implementing the recommendations contained in the VIP Coalition Action Plan assembled by the Neighborhood Services Department.

DUNLAP

  • Support the redevelopment of the fmr. El Caro golf course
  • Support and facilitate the redevelopment/reuse of the former K-Mart
  • Beautify 27th Ave and I-17 interchanges
  • Support reinvestment in Metrocenter as a walkable urban center
  • Facilitate neighborhood identity projects, such as street sign toppers
  • Support reinvestment in businesses on Northern Avenue

NORTHERN

  • Support street landscaping at Fire Dept. parking lot
  • Facilitate neighborhood identity projects, such as street sign toppers
  • Support reinvestment in businesses on Northern Avenue

GLENDALE

  • Complete tree replacement in city landscaping areas
  • Facilitate a front yard beautification project for homes fronting 27th Avenue
  • Facilitate neighborhood identity projects, such as street sign toppers
  • Implement pedestrian safety improvements at Bethany Home and 27th Avenue

BETHANY HOME

  • Implement pedestrian safety improvements at Bethany Home and 27th Avenue
  • Facilitate neighborhood identity projects, such as street sign toppers
  • Support reinvestment and retrofit of strip malls
  • Support redevelopment and reinvestment near Grand Canyon University

CAMELBACK

  • Facilitate neighborhood identity projects, such as street sign toppers
  • Support reinvestment and retrofit of strip malls
  • Support and facilitate sustainable housing and workforce development projects
  • Support the efforts of the D27 Business Alliance