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Take some time to learn a few simple steps to begin contributing to a document about the future of the town of Pulaski, VA. You may edit these documents if you feel that you can clarify or improve them. We hope to use the collective wisdom of our citizens to assist the Town Council in making sure that it is successful in actively working toward it's stated priorities for the town. There are 9,000 people in this town who have at least one idea or suggestion which would make our town better. See if you can think of one or two and add it to the appropriate priority page. Have fun and please be polite.

The town council (interesting note, if you rank the importance of the people by the size of their photo it gives an interesting insight to how the council/staff are viewed) held a two day retreat on the 13th and 14th of February, 2009. The purpose of the retreat was to establish goals and priorities for the town and for the council for the current and near term. One result of that meeting was a list of six priorities. The next step is for the town staff to address the priorities in early March and help the council develop a plan of action. The plan should be completed in spring of this year. Since we have often heard the town manager state that certain projects or plans must be deferred because of the heavy load on town staff, perhaps we can assist in finding ways to make sure that the council's stated priorities are acted upon quickly.

• Develop a strategy to interact with local governments to develop an improved working relationship

• Use existing buildings and create and maintain our heritage

• user friendly strategy to help businesses use existing buildings for commercial/residential purposes (i.e. building codes)

• Review zoning ordinance to eliminate/adapt restrictions to ordered growth
• Complete the identified boundary line adjustments

• Develop strategy to actively advertise that the Town of Pulaski is growing and that there are housing opportunities

• Create a better working relationship between government and the citizens of the Town (information and input)

• Complete the Southeast Neighborhood Renewal grant and proceed if funded

• Update inventory of available industrial buildings and establish a regular schedule to do so

• Set in motion a plan/process/time line for doing a Town wide upgrade on water and sewer; continue upgrades; review the 1&1Study to identify weaknesses in the water system

• Design, locate, and build the public safety building, including approaching the County about possible joint emergency services building and personnel
• Establish broadband infrastructure and be able to use it as tool to attract businesses and to support education and industry

• Relocate the drop site

• Address the old wastewater treatment plant

• Assess the Dora Highway Pump Station for possible pre-treatment additions

• Rebuild the train station, including the Visitor's Center and the enhancements to the Trail Head
• Greening more vacant lots to convert to parks, green space, or art features
• Completion of the Fine Arts Center and the completion of the Theater
• Build the Raymond F. Ratcliffe Museum and get the train set into the building
• Enhance our recreational assets to include:
• Enhancements to Gatewood and the Biking Events Pulaski Area
• Access to Peak Creek and enhancement Peak Creek aesthetics
• Bathrooms at Heritage Park
• Develop a plan for the recruitment of Trail-related businesses
• Emphasize and enhance maintenance of Town buildings, parks, and recreational facilities
• Review the existing Chamber Tourism plan and select the actions that the Town implement
• Develop a strategy to help users access our destination points easily (i.e. brochure / map)

• Implement the The NEEMO Project

• Determine the systems and infrastructure required for high tech business and put them in place

• Support existing business and industry to assure retention and growth
• Establish businesses in the Commerce Park
• Create a one stop packet for economic development to show Town and regional wants, incentive programs, and rules/regulations codes, and commercial property availability and contact information (all inclusive business and real estate information package)
• Establish a Business Recruitment Plan and System to address actions/benchmarks to insure communication between Council and staff about these efforts to insure communication between Council and staff about these efforts

• Specifically target and re-invent uses for the Pulaski Furniture property; recruit/support/negotiate the adaptive reuse of that site
• Create specific outreach to VA Tech and Radford University (specific departments) to enhance business growth and opportunities
• Consider leasing Town land on Draper Mountain for wind turbines

• Research potential sources of grants for adaptive re-use

• Rebuild our UDAG fund

• Continue our blight elimination program

• Enhance South Washington Avenue

• Restore and /or Demolish Properties

• Develop a mural on the wall on the wall

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• Create a pedestrian area with seating, shelter on the pad

• Consider sidewalk between First and Second Street on the east side
• Keep and enhance community events (ie. PulaskiFest)
• Develop a campaign to initiate “Staring at a New Era” to kick the Vision off and get people involved

• Complete a commercial signage inventory and develop an approach to update/ eliminate
• Implement wayfaring signage/system install attractive, historically appropriate signage to market area attractions i
• Identify strategies/ areas to allow billboards and other signage to increase amount of advertising
• Resolve the issue of whether to have two-way traffic downtown (goals, appropriate information, citizen input, options explored, cost)
• Establish interstate presence (draw people off the interstate))
• Develop street scape improvements for Rt. 99 and Rt.11
• Continuing to pursue the widening of Rt. 99
• Update the biking path plan and add biking lanes and bike racks
• Expand public transportation to enhance connections with other areas and localities
• Continue support for Trans Dominion Express