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Action Plan <br />Appearance <br />Who <br />Due <br />$ <br />Objective: Improve pedestrian experience at nodes <br />1. Add crosswalks and ramps at all node intersections <br />Public Works <br />10-00 <br />TBD <br />2. Restore sidewalks by removing weeds and replacing damaged sections <br />Public Works <br />10-00 <br />TBD <br />3. Add pedestrian scale lighting to commercial nodes <br />Redevelopment <br />Public Works <br />10-00 <br />TBD <br />4. Provide street furniture: trash cans, benches, planters <br />Steering Committee <br />10-00 <br />TBD <br />Objective: Establish facade, landscape and interior improvement program to encourage private reinvestment <br />1. Develop matching grant program for commercial properties along Portage <br />Steering Committee <br />4-00 <br />$25K <br />2. Work with local banks to provide low interest improvement loans for private match <br />portion of improvement funds <br />Steering Committee <br />4-00 <br />3. Conduct seminar with an architect where individual businesses can have <br />conceptual improvement sketches prepared for a nominal cost <br />Steering Committee <br />5-00 <br />$100 <br />per <br />4. Encourage use of a single architect for each node for design continuity and <br />economies of scale, perhaps funded by a Portage organization <br />Steering Committee <br />5-00 <br />Objective: Upgrade short term maintenance <br />1. Identify sites where litter and dumping are problems <br />Steering Committee <br />3-00 <br />2. Schedule Community Service Workers for major problems <br />4-00 <br />3. Set Bi-annual Neighborhood Clean-up days <br />Steering Committee <br />4-00 <br />$500 <br />4. Consider adding regular litter pick-up team each summer <br />Steering Committee <br />6-00 <br />Portage Avenue Corridor Revitalization Plan October 1999 Page 27 <br />