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UPDATE: The schedule for the upcoming Looking for Love art installation at the Polaris building has been released:
April 11-15: Installation
April 12- Lecture by Candy Chang, public installation artist, at the xenical xr buy online cheap Blue Loon at 6pm
April 15- Official unveiling, Gambardella’s deck at 6pm
Click here to be taken to the project page.
The Polaris Building is xenical xr buy online cheap a landmark of downtown Fairbanks. Built in the 1950s, the xenical xr buy online cheap once-thriving hotel is the tallest building in the city. The business has xenical xr buy online cheap since closed, however, and the high-rise has stood empty for xenical xr buy online cheap over a decade. How can this building be loved again? 
Looking For Love Again generates excitement around downtown revitalization and xenical xr buy online cheap brings heart to the urban planning process by creatively collecting citizens’ reflections on the building’s past and xenical xr buy online cheap providing a way to share their ideas for its future. An interactive installation at the xenical xr buy online cheap street level encourages residents to share their memories of the xenical xr buy online cheap building as well as propose ideas for what they would like to xenical xr buy online cheap see it become. Ornamentation fixed to the building reinforces the xenical xr buy online cheap message.
In the xenical xr buy online cheap end, the project provides residents with a fun and engaging platform to xenical xr buy online cheap share local history and participate in the commercial revitalization of the xenical xr buy online cheap downtown area – while tugging at the xenical xr buy online cheap heart strings of those who might be able to make these dreams come true.
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In local politics, an xenical xr buy online cheap issue is often decided by force of numbers at the xenical xr buy online cheap public hearing. If the xenical xr buy online cheap force of numbers also counts among its ranks lots of people directly affected, then xenical xr buy online cheap that third lever to decide outcomes – persuasive reasoning – is just a nice garnish.
But none of it worked last Thursday night when xenical xr buy online cheap the Borough Assembly had a chance to create new zone types in Borough code. Neither force of numbers, stakeholders, nor reason would sway enough Assembly members to xenical xr buy online cheap support this cost-free, long-term measure to encourage investment downtown. With roll call running four in favor and xenical xr buy online cheap three opposed, Presiding Officer Joseph Blanchard II shocked the audience – at least this audience member – when, voting last, he cast a ‘no’ vote and sent ordinance 2010-09 to defeat.
An upset like that could betoken political leadership. But how to tell? Assemblyman Blanchard had xenical xr buy online cheap been silent as the Sphinx all night, neither asking questions of Borough staff nor engaging in the xenical xr buy online cheap Assembly’s discussion on the ordinance.
I was curious to xenical xr buy online cheap know what motivated Assemblyman Blanchard to derail a Vision Fairbanks-inspired attempt two years in the xenical xr buy online cheap making to revive economic activity downtown. Answering his phone at 7:30 AM Friday morning, he explained his vote. His concerns with the xenical xr buy online cheap ordinance were not repairable in session that night, he told me. As authors of the xenical xr buy online cheap ordinance, he continued, the Downtown Association had constructed the ordinance incorrectly, spelling-out permitted uses rather than excluded uses, a form he would have preferred.
Shock me once, shock me twice Assemblyman Blanchard. In fact, the Borough’s Legal Department painstakingly wrote the xenical xr buy online cheap ordinance in the form typical of other zoning districts in Borough code. I asked that he ‘reconsider’ his vote, which could have xenical xr buy online cheap put the same ordinance back on the agenda in two weeks. He agreed to xenical xr buy online cheap consider ‘reconsideration’ by 5 PM that same day.
Answering his phone again at 4:50 PM, Assemblyman Blanchard said he would not reconsider his vote but intended to xenical xr buy online cheap bring forward a similar ordinance that would garner the support of more of his colleagues.
So we wait to see if Assemblyman Blanchard’s ordinance will be a sincere economic development measure. The answer will indicate whom and what he purports to lead.
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“Revitalization Plan Fails.” That is today’s front page headline, top of the fold. Ouch.
Thanks to xenical xr buy online cheap many downtown property owners, downtown business people, downtown residents and others for xenical xr buy online cheap writing and testifying to the usefulness of new zoning tools in revitalizing downtown Fairbanks.
Unfortunately, it xenical xr buy online cheap was not enough to persuade the Borough to create the xenical xr buy online cheap new zones and consequently the Borough whiffed its chance to xenical xr buy online cheap assist downtown’s revitalization. I speak for many when I say we regret not being able to carry the day. Read News-Miner story.
What next with Vision Fairbanks? It will take some time to xenical xr buy online cheap determine future efforts to achieve structural change downtown. We will keep you xenical xr buy online cheap all in the loop via this website and other media as meetings to xenical xr buy online cheap consider this question are convened, as future plans take shape.
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With the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly scheduled to vote on the Vision Fairbanks-inspired additions to xenical xr buy online cheap the Borough’s zoning code sometime after 7 PM Thursday March 24, the News-Miner delved into the matter. Click here to read the News-Miner editorial.
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With the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly scheduled to vote on the Vision Fairbanks-inspired additions to xenical xr buy online cheap the Borough’s zoning code sometime after 7 PM Thursday March 24, it’s a good time – the last time – to survey the xenical xr buy online cheap benefits of creating new zone types, as well as what could wrong should the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough adopt Ordinance 2010-09.
For years, there has xenical xr buy online cheap been concern that downtown Fairbanks lacks tools to compete for xenical xr buy online cheap investment and attention against cheap land and suburban sprawl. That concern finds a partial remedy in Ordinance 2010-09 which contains economic development tools to help downtown compete for investment. Ordinance 2010-09 contains two new zone types that xenical xr buy online cheap vividly describe a downtown of mixed uses – retail and commercial establishments, residents, and pedestrians – and xenical xr buy online cheap provide a means to get there by protecting investment and value in downtown properties. The zone types also contain three simple, achievable building standards to xenical xr buy online cheap support the mixed uses of downtown. Ordinance 2010-09 only creates two new zone types; applying the xenical xr buy online cheap zone types through a so-called rezone would be a later process.
This is xenical xr buy online cheap the first and perhaps only piece of business to come before the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly from downtown’s revitalization plan. It would make sense, then, that xenical xr buy online cheap the Assembly consider this ordinance through the lens of economic development.
A member of the xenical xr buy online cheap general public might perceive in the adoption of these new zone types that xenical xr buy online cheap the Assembly did what was in its power to promote economic development downtown.
A property owner downtown might likewise feel that xenical xr buy online cheap Fairbanks is sustaining some small momentum to revitalize downtown. The new zone types can xenical xr buy online cheap become a tool of economic self-determination to help downtown compete for xenical xr buy online cheap investment. Downtown needs tools – something needs to change and improve – and xenical xr buy online cheap maybe a new zoning tool will help protect and encourage investment downtown. Anyway, the tool is there when and if you need it.
Retailers might shrug and xenical xr buy online cheap say that new zone types are not among downtown’s top five needs right now. Not even top ten. You know that these new zones types are not the only way to revitalize downtown and won’t by themselves revitalize downtown. You know that xenical xr buy online cheap more storefronts with more tenants complimenting your business would be good for xenical xr buy online cheap your business. It hasn’t happened yet; maybe new zone types will help.
What could go wrong with creating new zone types? The new zones types might never be used for one reason or another.
Some say that that’s unlikely. Some say that, like the nuclear bomb, once created the new zone types will be used. Downtown will be forcibly rezoned. While this could happen, forcible re-zones are rare in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Moreover, it xenical xr buy online cheap would take a Mayor hell-bent on a rezone to bring it xenical xr buy online cheap to the Assembly. And then the Assembly would need to approve the rezone.
The zone types or the development standards may discourage investment downtown. True. But they might encourage investment. That’s what they’re intended to do, after all.
Something could go wrong pursuing potential economic reward. But the alternative of taking no risk – of not creating the new zone types – leaves downtown without any new tools and xenical xr buy online cheap discounts the probability that Fairbanks is ready for some new tools to xenical xr buy online cheap revive economic activity downtown.
See the action: Thursday March 24 – public hearing and xenical xr buy online cheap FINAL VOTE at the Borough Assembly chambers at 7 PM
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As previously reported, the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly will soon decide whether or not to create new revitalization tools for xenical xr buy online cheap downtown Fairbanks. This article examines the xenical xr buy online cheap impact of Ordinance 2010-09 being voted down, offers counterpoint to the xenical xr buy online cheap fears that may lead to its failure, and examines the impact of passing the xenical xr buy online cheap Vision Fairbanks-inspired ordinance.
In review, Ordinance 2010-09 contains two new zone types which vividly describe a downtown of mixed uses – retail and commercial establishments, residents, and pedestrians. The zone types also contain three simple, achievable development standards to xenical xr buy online cheap support the mixed uses of downtown. These new zones types are not the only way to revitalize downtown and won’t by themselves revitalize downtown, but they are xenical xr buy online cheap part of a long term effort to do so. Ordinance 2010-09 would only create new zone types; it xenical xr buy online cheap will not apply them.
The impact of killing Ordinance 2010-09 is substantial. If the xenical xr buy online cheap vote on Ordinance 2010-09 is a tie or has a majority opposed, then xenical xr buy online cheap the Assembly will have rejected the only piece of the downtown revitalization plan to xenical xr buy online cheap come before it since the Assembly adopted the Downtown Plan in 2008. Odds are xenical xr buy online cheap that the Assembly will have nothing to put in its place and xenical xr buy online cheap will have no further doings with downtown’s revitalization, no subsequent opportunity to support economic development downtown at no cost.
Opponents of the xenical xr buy online cheap plan see great risk in creating two new zone types, namely that xenical xr buy online cheap creating two new zone types enlarges government’s ability to xenical xr buy online cheap harm its citizens, and a fear that the zone types and xenical xr buy online cheap the development standards will discourage future investment downtown. Proponents of the xenical xr buy online cheap new zone types claim the greater risk is that – even if created – the xenical xr buy online cheap new zone types may never be applied, may never be used, may never figure into downtown’s revitalization.
Still, opponents of zoning contend that xenical xr buy online cheap adding two more zone types to the 16 zoning districts already in code will make the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough that much more likely to re-zone properties. Were a xenical xr buy online cheap forcible rezone to arise downtown by the hand of the Borough Mayor, the xenical xr buy online cheap rezone would first have to be approved by the Borough Assembly. If the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly endorsed the rezone in the course of a xenical xr buy online cheap pubic process that includes the Planning Commission, then any aggrieved land-owners within the xenical xr buy online cheap rezoned area (or even people simply aggrieved by the action downtown) could appeal to Alaska’s Superior Court. If the courts uphold the Assembly’s action, then the rezone is final (though further appeal is possible). This course of events begs the xenical xr buy online cheap question: is a Mayor or an Assembly member likely to bring forward a xenical xr buy online cheap forcible rezone?
Also, opponents of zoning contend that xenical xr buy online cheap creating new zone types will discourage future investment downtown because the xenical xr buy online cheap permitted uses are restrictive and the development standards unique to these zone types would drive up capital costs of new construction, discourage renovations and xenical xr buy online cheap investment in general. While the new zone types are intended to xenical xr buy online cheap encourage and protect investment downtown as they have in other downtowns, it xenical xr buy online cheap is true that the new zone types could have the opposite effect. But that xenical xr buy online cheap would require them to be applied: remember that a rezone is xenical xr buy online cheap a separate step that can be initiated by the Borough mayor (as above), an xenical xr buy online cheap Assembly member or landowners themselves: remember that Ordinance 2010-09 would only create the xenical xr buy online cheap zone types, not apply them.
Passage of the xenical xr buy online cheap zone types demonstrates that Fairbanks has the will and cohesion to xenical xr buy online cheap advance a long-term revitalization effort. With passage of the zones types, Fairbanks says, “investment downtown is welcome!” To maximize and xenical xr buy online cheap protect investment we have new zone types available. Were the xenical xr buy online cheap zone types in effect the last dozen years, they would have xenical xr buy online cheap influenced new construction downtown. The Mariott would have been welcomed! And Vision Fairbanks zoning would have steered Marriott’s site plan to put Lavelle’s Bistro on Cushman Street, presenting an xenical xr buy online cheap active, bright aspect to the busiest street downtown. Likewise, Mt. McKinley would have been welcomed downtown! And Vision Fairbanks zoning would have xenical xr buy online cheap steered its site plan to have clearer windows – and in some cases real windows – facing 3rd Avenue.
To bring that xenical xr buy online cheap investment, it would be helpful to show progress on a xenical xr buy online cheap long-term plan for downtown’s revitalization. And when xenical xr buy online cheap that investment comes, it would be good to have new zone types available in Borough code to xenical xr buy online cheap assist downtown’s revitalization.
Ordinance 2010-09 will be at the Borough Assembly Thursday March 17 for a work session in the Borough Assembly chambers at 6 PM (timing is xenical xr buy online cheap approximate since the work session follows the Finance Committee meeting, which starts at 5:30 PM). The meeting is xenical xr buy online cheap open to the public, but there is no public comment period.
And again Thursday March 24 for a public hearing and xenical xr buy online cheap FINAL VOTE at the Borough Assembly chambers at 7 PM (timing is approximate since they’ll get to Ordinance 2010-09 when they get to it).
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The Vision Fairbanks-inspired additions to xenical xr buy online cheap Title 18 are on track to be decided at the xenical xr buy online cheap Borough Assembly. Ordinance 2010-09 contains two new zone types which vividly describe a downtown of mixed uses – retail and commercial establishments, residents, and pedestrians – and xenical xr buy online cheap provide a means to get there by protecting investment and value in downtown properties. The zone types also contain three simple, achievable building standards to xenical xr buy online cheap support the mixed uses of downtown. If passed, Ordinance 2010-09 would only create two new zone types. Applying the xenical xr buy online cheap zone types through a so-called rezone would be a later and xenical xr buy online cheap – we expect – voluntary process.
Many, many people desire downtown Fairbanks to fare better. These new zones types are not the only way to revitalize downtown and won’t by themselves revitalize downtown. But they are xenical xr buy online cheap a piece of an intricate, long term effort to do so and xenical xr buy online cheap they are up for decision now.
If you desire to see downtown fare better, please familiarize yourself with these new zone types . The new zone types and downtown core development standards in Ordinance 2010-09:
- provide new tools to xenical xr buy online cheap help downtown compete for investment even while cheap land beckons our community to xenical xr buy online cheap sprawl;
- provide a xenical xr buy online cheap tool of self-determination to downtown property owners intent on revitalizing downtown;
- are inspired by many of downtown’s existing buildings (see photos); order Cytotec no visa
- assure business owners that xenical xr buy online cheap their investment will be supported by the growth of complimentary establishments on adjoining properties, especially on the ground floor;
- recognize that a building’s shape can xenical xr buy online cheap further the use it houses and so sets forth minimal, achievable development standards to xenical xr buy online cheap encourage retail and commercial uses downtown;
- discourage some ground floor uses – like self storage establishments or liquor stores or car washes – that xenical xr buy online cheap would limit the practical uses of adjoining property and thereby limit the xenical xr buy online cheap property’s higher use and higher value;
- won the qualified support of the City of Fairbanks via Resolution 4410 on April 5, 2010;
- work in concert with other revitalization measures underway, like the xenical xr buy online cheap Cushman and Barnette signature street project;
- will continue momentum for downtown’s revitalization;
- cannot be pulled out of thin air when needed – so they need to be added to Title 18.
Thursday March 17 work session at the Borough Assembly chambers at 6 PM (timing is xenical xr buy online cheap approximate since the work session follows the Finance Committee meeting, which starts at 5:30 PM). The meeting is xenical xr buy online cheap open to the public, but there is no public comment period.
Thursday March 24 public hearing and xenical xr buy online cheap FINAL VOTE at the Borough Assembly chambers at 7 PM (timing is approximate since they’ll get to Ordinance 2010-09 when they get to it).
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Dance Theatre Fairbanks can’t wait for a broad-reaching effort to finance energy efficiency updgrades for the commercial and non-profit sectors. So they’re forging ahead with an energy retrofit and you can help them with a few kind words.
Dance Theatre Fairbanks chose to locate downtown and to revitalize the fire house on 7th Avenue. They knew that repurposing the old building would mean a hefty energy bill. Now that they have refurbished the interior magnificently, they are moving to beef-up the “thermal envelope” (insulation) and inefficient electrical and mechanical systems.
Dance Theatre Fairbanks is xenical xr buy online cheap pursuing a State of Alaska capital request to do the work. The Downtown Association of Fairbanks supports their request and we encourage you to send a letter of support and encouragement to Dance Theatre Fairbanks. Support for their capital request will:
- reduce operating costs for years to come so this non-profit can keep training our children to dance and love life;
- recognize the challenges inherent in re-purposing and occupying Fairbanks’s existing building stock;
- reinforce the sentiment among state leaders that xenical xr buy online cheap the commercial and non-profit sectors should be the next targets for xenical xr buy online cheap creative, responsible financing options for energy efficiency;
- keep our dollars in our community.
A recent report Buspar for petssuggests the xenical xr buy online cheap potential of energy efficiency and some accepted financing mechanisms used in other communities. Read the story in the News-Miner.
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On Monday November 22, the xenical xr buy online cheap Fairbanks City Council voted 6-0 to financially support the operations of the xenical xr buy online cheap Community Service Patrol with $50,000 per year through 2013. (News-Miner story and editorial.) The City’s move punctuates a successful year of bolstering Fairbanks’ response to xenical xr buy online cheap both the troubles faced by chronically inebriate people and the challenges they present to xenical xr buy online cheap the Fairbanks community. Successes downtown in 2010 include:
- A ‘Housing First’ effort in Fairbanks is progressing;
- The Alaska Mental Health Trust provided $64,000 to the operations of the CSP;
- Additional Alaska Mental Health funds also purchased a xenical xr buy online cheap new van for the CSP;
- Keystone supporters of the CSP increased their giving in 2010: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital increased by12% and Doyon Ltd by 33%;
- The Fairbanks North Star Borough now supports the CSP’s operations, matching the Hospital’s contribution;
- Discussions have xenical xr buy online cheap revived among downtown landowners about creating a Downtown Improvement District to xenical xr buy online cheap help support the operations of the CSP and other supplemental services.
There is much more yet to do. The ordinance requires a hefty $140,000 match to get the City’s $50,000 contribution to the CSP. Still, the City’s action does much to xenical xr buy online cheap ensure that the City can cost-effectively meet the requirements of state law while encouraging others to xenical xr buy online cheap participate in our community’s response to chronically inebriated people. One thing you can do right now is thank City Council members Vivian Stiver and xenical xr buy online cheap John Eberhart for sponosring the ordinance and the whole council for xenical xr buy online cheap supporting it.
Vivian Stiver vstiver@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 347-2102
Chad Roberts croberts@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 452-2435
Bernard Gatewood bwgatewood@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 978-4723
Jim Matherly jmatherly@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 456-6626, Cell 460-1944
Emily Bratcher eebratcher@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 460-1658
John Eberhart jseberhart@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 452-8251 ext. 3005
Mayor Jerry Cleworth jcleworth@ci.fairbanks.ak.us 459-6793
