The Downtown Redevelopment Plan created a unified vision for downtown Farmington. The plan will help Farmington’s City Council, Economic Development Authority, and other advisory commissions identify opportunities in the downtown area for redevelopment. Since redevelopment efforts often takes many years, it is important to have a unified vision for the downtown area so that staff can identify funding sources for projects and opportunities as they become available.
As a long-term year plan, this illustrative redevelopment plan is intended to provide a proactive tool for communicating the community’s vision for downtown reinvestment and redevelopment projects, both by the public and private sectors. It is not the city’s intent to acquire properties that are identified as potential redevelopment sites on this plan. Redevelopment of individual sites will be primarily dependent upon property owners who are interested and willing to pursue redevelopment or to sell their property to developers who are interested in redevelopment. There may be opportunities for private property owners to partner with the city to successfully achieve the redevelopment goals of this plan. The redevelopment plan provides direction for redevelopment while also leaving room for flexibility and individual expression as part of the redevelopment process which will allow for the creation of a varied and dynamic downtown environment.
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