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A Northfield citizen engagement project, coming soon
Greetings! I’m Griff Wigley, online coordinator for this project, wearing my business consulting hat (Wigley and Associates) and not my blogger hat (Locally Grown Northfield). My wife Robbie and I have...
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Our first planning meeting, Dec. 17
On December 17, a group of us gathered in the Council Chambers at Northfield City Hall to start planning the details of the project and its process. We also marked up some aerial maps of the downtown...
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How is this engagement project going to work?
We’re planning to use a variety of online tools along with face-to-face meetings to gather information and engage downtown stakeholders and Northfield area citizens around the components of a parking...
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Planning for stakeholder input on downtown parking management
Chris Heineman, Griff Wigley, and I had a face-to-face meeting last week, January 16. We have been keeping in touch through Basecamp (web-based project planning service) and decided it was time to...
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City Council requests actionable items for downtown parking
On June 18th, the NDDC got an opportunity to present the findings of the parking Conversation, along with some specific recommendations, to the City Council. The Council demonstrated impressive...
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July 31 parking management planning meeting at City Hall
The Council Parking Subcommittee met on Wednesday, July 31st, to prepare for the August 13th Northfield City Council Work Session. The meeting opened with a discussion of Verne Gagne, Gene Kiniski,...
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A footnote: bicyclists and downtown parking
The two recommendations in the final parking report for which there are not brief, simple sentences are related to bicycles. These recommendations, numbers 5 and 8, are longer term and more complex....
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Proposed layout of directional and way-finding signs for public parking
#3 on the list of Parking Management Recommendations that were presented to the City Council last week states: Reviewing and upgrading directional and way-finding signs to public parking: City Staff...
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A bicycle field trip with Dale Gehring to get smarter about ‘making the...
‘Over Hill, ‘long with Dale, We did Hit that Dusty Trail… actually, in some places, the trail, or lane, was conceptual. A couple weeks ago, the Northfield News reported that the results of the NDDC’s...
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City ready to experiment with short-term parking spaces in downtown Northfield
Item #2 on the list of parking recommendations stated: Reducing parking time limits for some parking to create pick-up/drop-off spaces: City Council and Staff are ready to begin an “experiment” with 15...
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