E-Town seeks input on North Downtown Master Plan

The City of Elizabethtown Planning and Development Department will host a neighborhood meeting on the North Downtown Master Plan Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Central Avenue Baptist Church.

“This is actually the second meeting that we’ve held in this neighborhood,” said City Administrator Ed Poppe at Tuesday’s Elizabethtown City Council meeting. “The first meeting was back in the fall. We got a lot of good public input on concerns that the neighbors had.”

Poppe said the “basic boundaries” of the neighborhood are South Mulberry Street on the north, the railroad tracks on the south, Williams Street on the east, and East Poplar Street on the west.

The meeting is an open house format with no formal presentation, so residents may come and go as they please.

“We’re looking for more input from the property owners in that area,” Poppe said. “We heard issues about compatibility of land uses and walkability in the community, so we’ve got some information that our consultants TSW has put together.”

Poppe said the neighborhood will be the target area for the next round of Community Development Block Grant funding the city receives.

“We hope to spend a number of years in the neighborhood helping to redevelop the area, place some infill residential housing in some areas, upgrade pedestrian access through sidewalks and trails in the area, and also probably look at street lighting,” Poppe said.

Contact the Elizabethtown Planning and Development office for more information.