{"id":38127,"date":"2016-02-12T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=38127"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:03:40","slug":"ut-student-input-needed-to-build-downtown-toledo-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2016\/ut-student-input-needed-to-build-downtown-toledo-master-plan","title":{"rendered":"UT student input needed to build downtown Toledo master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at The University of Toledo are invited be part of the 22nd Century Committee\u2019s development of a master plan for downtown Toledo.<\/p>\n

The UT Department of Geography and Planning and the UT Urban Affairs Center will host a public meeting Monday, Feb. 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Student Union Room 3018.<\/p>\n

\"Planning<\/a>\u201cIt is critical that this process include new students and millennials,\u201d said Cindy Kerr, executive director of the Downtown Toledo Improvement District. \u201cThey should have an impact and a stake in the future considering their most sought-after residential location after graduation is downtown. We want to make sure their voices are heard so developers continue to offer things that interest them and promote growth for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Monday\u2019s meeting, we will go through our initial analysis for downtown Toledo,\u201d said Andrew Overbeck, principal at MKSK, a landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm. \u201cWe will open up the meeting for questions and discussion in order to capture the wisdom of the students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung professionals interested in being involved in what downtown Toledo could look like in the future should attend the meeting,\u201d said Dr. Patrick Lawrence, UT professor and chair of geography and planning. \u201cWhat would make you stay in Toledo after graduation?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 22nd\u00a0Century Committee, a public-private partnership of 27 local government, business, nonprofit, labor and education leaders, was created to bring together the many plans for downtown development into a single, comprehensive master plan. Learn more about the group\u2019s activities by visiting\u00a0downtowntoledoplan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UT students are invited to share their visions for what they’d like to see in downtown Toledo at a special meeting Monday, Feb. 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Student Union Room 3018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38130,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions\/38130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}