All-America City Square Planning Project

Calendar Date:
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

The City of Cottage Grove, the Cottage Grove Garden Club, Sustainable Cottage Grove, EBID, and Cottage Grove Main Street want to invite you to participate in a planning charrette designed to improve and enhance the All-America City Square.

The City of Cottage Grove has received a grant from the National Park Service and State Historic Preservation Office through the Certified Local Government Program to conduct a community planning project on the All-America City Square this spring.

All-America City Square has become a center of our revitalized downtown and it is almost 10 years old.  We want to find out how the square is serving the needs of the community.  We have heard concerns expressed over the flag stone flooring, traffic flow, safety, lighting, use, signage, maintenance, etc. What do you love? What are your concerns?  What would you like to see change? What would you like to see stay the same?

We’d like to invite you to join us at an Open House at the Cottage Grove Armory on  Tuesday, May 17, 2016 from 6:00-8:00pm. At this open house, we hope to gather ideas on needed park improvements and uses so we can sustain the park for future generations.

The following week, on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Cottage Grove Armory, a certified Landscape Architect, David Dougherty from DLA Inc., will facilitate a DESIGN CHARRETTE with interested stakeholders.

A charrette is an interactive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision for a project. It provides a forum for ideas and offers the unique advantage of giving immediate feedback to the designers. More importantly, it allows everyone who participates to help author the plan. The charrette will be a hands-on exercise where citizens like you will help us design and sketch out options to solve the identified problems.

Ideas that come out of the charrette will be used in design drawings by DLA that City staff will use for grant applications and to inform the ongoing maintenance program.

If you have questions about the process or want to get more involved, please contact Amanda Ferguson, City Planner at (541)942-3340 or via email at planner@cottagegrove.org