During June and July 2011, the Planning Department and Cherry Creek Steering Committee members met for three focus group sessions. Thank you to the many people who spent three hour evenings at these meetings discussing Mobility and Connectivity, Urban Form and Public Realm, and Economic Development. And thank you to the Cherry Creek Mall/Taubman company for providing dinner and space in the former Saks store.
As a result of these sessions, the Planning Staff has posted recorded notes and “Key Findings” from each focus group. You can see this information and various power point presentations on the Community Planning and Development website. If you take the time to delve through this information, you may find some variations or slightly conflicting statements from the groups. That’s because these are findings and not yet recommendations. The findings were presented to the Cherry Creek Steering Committee in July and the Plan Leadership Team has been meeting since then to discuss questions we have about the findings, what further information is needed to answer remaining questions, and how to give informed feedback so that Planning Staff can meld the findings and write a plan with draft recommendations.
The next Cherry Creek Steering Committee will be September 21. Continue to follow plan progress in this newsletter and also on the Community Planning and Development website.