The consulting firm preparing Deep River’s “Downtown Streetscape and Waterfront Enhancement Strategy” appears to have taken public input into consideration, judging by changes to the document.
FOTENN Planning + Design presented its draft strategy to town council and the public last fall, and presented its final report to council last week, after having made a number of key changes based on the input it received at that time.
Key among those changes, the draft strategy called for the Community Centre to be replaced with a parking lot, but the consulting firm is now calling for that building to stay in place, until the end of its lease with the town in 2032.
“After that lease is up, the community could rethink that corner,” FOTENN’s Thiago Santos told council last week.
FOTENN has pegged the overall cost of the downtown streetscape and waterfront strategy at $12.5 million, and is recommending it be implemented in four phases…
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