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Canal Side:
Citizen
WaterfrontForumCity of Buffalo Public OpinionSolicitation
Mayors Office of Strategic PlanningByron W. Brown, Mayor
Brendan R. Mehaffy, Esq., Executive Director
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Significant progresshas been made.
- Buffalonians have consistently demanded access tothe water.
- Federal, state, and local officials have respondedwith new streets, public spaces, walking and cyclingpaths.
- The waterfront is now more accessible than it hasbeen in decades.
- Canal Side infrastructure is nearly complete andsignificant development-ready parcels are ready forbuild-out.
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Mayor Brown issues
call for ideas.- Mayor Byron W. Brown issued a call to the publicfor ideas for the development of Canal Side on August
10, 2010, and the public came back with anoverwhelming response.
- Solicitations for public feedback from hundreds ofpeople were collected by e-mail, personal letters,
and the Citys 311 web form and call line.
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856 people
1,757 ideas
RESPONSE TO
MAYORS CALL
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311 Web Form was a huge success.
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A wide range of responses emerged from acrossthe region and beyond.
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What does the public
have to say?
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We have access to the water.
Now the public is demanding we take thenext step.
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The ideas from the public were wide
ranging, creative, and comprehensive, yetprominent themes emerge that offer
direction on a course for action.
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As simply stated by one respondent,Buffalonians love to eat, drink, and be
entertained.
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1,757 ideas...
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The public stresses the importance of historical andcultural authenticity in the waterfronts build-out.
STRONG PUBLICSUPPORT
National specialty restaurants and retail chains,particularly those that are not yet located in the Buffaloarea.
There is a strong desire for recreational, leisure, andsporting activities at the waters edge.
Civic gathering places and access to the water havewidespread support.
There is a strong desire for museum and interpretiveexperiences that relate strongly to Buffalos heritage,culture, and Great Lakes/Erie Canal location.
The public overwhelmingly supports the waterfrontsdevelopment as a setting for restaurants, coffeehouses, and bars.
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The public expressed some concern about environmental standards, butdid not express any concern for a living wage as a prerequisite towaterfront development.
There is only limited support for use of the waters edge as an officelocation, indicating a widespread preference for its development as aresort or an escape from the 9 to 5 destination.
While there was a call for local retailers, there was a greater call for
national retailers.
LIMITED PUBLIC SUPPORT
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The common thread across all the responses isa desire for the waterfront to become anexciting urban place, where restaurants,
retail, entertainment, recreational activities,and cultural and family destinations - in short,
things to do - are embedded into an
authentic, walkable district.
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The feedback from the publicreinforces many of the overriding goals
and objectives of the Canal Side MasterPlan.