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Who <br />Start <br />$ <br />Objective: Upgrade the appearance of the Miami Street Corridor (continued from previous page) <br />Establish facade, landscape and interior improvement program to encourage <br />City of South Bend, <br />private reinvestment <br />Miami Village <br />1 . Develop matching grant program for properties along Miami Street <br />Association (MVA), <br />4/2001 <br />2. Work with local banks to provide low interest improvement loans for <br />Local Banks, <br />4/2001 <br />private match portion of improvement funds <br />Local Architect <br />3. Conduct seminar with an architect where individual businesses can have <br />6/2001 <br />$250-300 <br />conceptual improvement sketches prepared for a nominal cost <br />4. Encourage use of a single architect for design continuity and economies of <br />6/2001 <br />scale, perhaps funded by the Miami Village organization <br />Objective: Improve viability of commercial shopping nodes <br />Develop and implement site plan review requirement for all commercial and <br />City of South Bend <br />6/2001 <br />multi -family development <br />1. Create specific guidelines to clearly communicate site plan requirements to <br />property owners/developers <br />2. . Produce requirements/application in brochure form with illustrations to <br />clearly communicate intent and requirements <br />3. Provide review predominately at staff level, with one public review to <br />obtain comments and input from local residents <br />Objective: Upgrade short term maintenance <br />Identify sites where litter and dumping are problems <br />MVA <br />1. Set biannual Neighborhood Clean -Up Days <br />1 /2001 <br />2. Consider adding regular litter pick-up team each summer <br />2/2001 <br />3. Schedule community service workers for major problems <br />4/2001 <br />Miami Street Commercial Corridor Revitalization Action Plan December 2000 Page 79 <br />