Draft Guiding Principles Feedback
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On September 25, community members gathered with City Staff to have facilitated conversations about the Draft Guiding Principles for the Duke Street Land Use Plan. On this page you can review the meeting materials and view the recording of the meeting presentation as well as provide your own feedback on the Draft Guiding Principles and see the feedback your neighbors are leaving.
In all of these principles, ensure that community members of all ages, abilities, backgrounds, and needs are welcomed and included, in a community where community health and well-being are fostered.
- Create walkable neighborhoods with a mix of land uses, public spaces, streetscapes, and services.
- Ensure that new development is well-designed and enhances the corridor.
- Ensure that new development enhances access to neighborhood retail, civic uses, transit options, and community focal points.
- Prioritize uses that serve the daily needs of the residents.
- Promote economic opportunities and the retention and growth of small businesses.
- Provide safe ways for people to get around along the corridor.
- Create a well-connected system of streets, alleys, sidewalks, and trails that makes it easier to get around.
- Support a variety of travel choices, including walking, biking, transit, and driving
- Incorporate current and emerging technologies to enhance mobility and safety.
- Pursue new neighborhood-serving parks and public open spaces.
- Pursue opportunities for new City-parks and public open spaces.
- Make it easier for people to connect to and enjoy existing parks and public open spaces.
- Ensure parks and public open spaces include a wide range of amenities.
- Increase the supply and diversity of housing options accessible to households of all incomes.
- Expand committed affordable rental and homeownership opportunities.
- Improve housing quality, safety, and long-term stability in existing and new development, where feasible.
- Prioritize anti-displacement and preservation strategies to the greatest extent possible, including the potential preservation of existing committed and naturally occurring affordable housing.
- Promote a sustainable urban environment, energy-efficient buildings, and renewable energy.
- Implement green infrastructure throughout the corridor.
- Protect the integrity of the corridor’s stream valleys, floodplains, and resource protection areas and expand the tree canopy.
- Strengthen the corridor’s resilience against the impacts of extremes in heat and cold through the design of new development, parks and infrastructure.
- Ensure equitable access to services and resources that improve physical and mental and health and wellbeing.
- Provide opportunities for physical activity, community gathering areas, and social connection.
- Expand access to affordable goods and services such as food and other resources.
How well do these principles reflect your priorities for Duke Street?
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28 October, 2025
Neighbor says:
Make Duke St a place people want to stop and connect with neighbors, spend money, and recreate. Today people only want to rush through.
28 October, 2025
Neighbor says:
More transit-oriented development along the corridor, please.
28 October, 2025
Neighbor says:
More transit options along the corridor, including biking, walking, BRT. Residents should have the choice of how to move along Duke St.
28 October, 2025
Neighbor says:
The goals listed under the 1st 3 sections match my desired vision for the corridor: mixed use, multimodal transit, and green space.
23 October, 2025
Carolyn says:
I’d love to see more cafes and gathering spaces along the edges of the Holmes Run greenway instead of gas stations and backs of strip malls.
23 October, 2025
Mike Moran says:
Watch 10 minutes https://youtu.be/VSN1BR6es6E?si=HbxD5Gx8yuq2SKcg
Create a safer, healthier, and more economically vibrant city like Ghent.
23 October, 2025
West End Parent says:
Outdoor dining plaza on the back end of Foxchase facing the trail would be a great 3rd space and mixed use involving nature and business.
23 October, 2025
Ken says:
More emphasis on opinions of those who live right by and will be impacted more by this project.
23 October, 2025
Duke Street Resident says:
Non-car connectivity to parks, outdoor spaces would improve health. So much of west end is cut off from existing trails & parks.
23 October, 2025
Duke Street Resident says:
Diverse housing options needed! Our schools are segregated and not walkable because the center 1/3 of the city doesn’t have enough housing
23 October, 2025
Duke Street Resident says:
Multiuse paths along Duke would be a game changer for my disabled neighbor’s ability to leave his home.
23 October, 2025
Duke Street Resident says:
More housing please! I’m tired of all my friends and my kids friends moving away because demand is pricing them out and skyrocketing rent.
What would you change about these Draft Guiding Principles?
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28 October, 2025
Neighbor says:
Specifically add in the priorities to build bus dedicated lanes, off-street cycle tracks, and dedicated pedestrian sidewalks the whole way.
23 October, 2025
West End Parent says:
Include third spaces. Kids, teens, seniors, adults all need places to connect in real life.
23 October, 2025
Duke St. Homeowner says:
This is a solution in search of a problem.
Plenty of housing with sidewalks to walk and ride bikes, roads to drive, bus, and bike, etc.
23 October, 2025
Dianne says:
Remove set backs and parking requirements and street parking. Make the whole corridor pedestrians first.
23 October, 2025
Dianne says:
Make pedestrians and public transportation and housing the only priorities. Cars have had the world for 100 years and only made problems.
23 October, 2025
Chris Hoeffner says:
Greater emphasis in principles and throughout the planning process on preserving the integrity of existing neighborhoods.
23 October, 2025
NatsFan says:
A plan for trash, reducing litter from walkers including dog poo & people emptying car trash on the ground because there are no trash cans.
22 October, 2025
Feeling Crushed says:
Add: "No new residential development w/o commensurate increase in school capacity, public green space & First Responders."
22 October, 2025
Feeling Crushed says:
Delete "Increase the supply and diversity of housing options accessible to households of all incomes."
22 October, 2025
Maxwell says:
There should be a vehicle bypass for drivers seeking to access 495 from Quaker so they dont add to the congestion in the commercial corridor
21 October, 2025
Stop reducing lanes! says:
Preserve the existing number of traffic lanes for cars, trucks and buses. Bikes under utilize bike lanes. Just look at Seminary Rd. Waste.
19 October, 2025
102 Rider says:
Don’t concentrate busses on Duke only. That compounds traffic and reduces service to people in neighborhoods who rely on those busses.
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