In what has been a discussed for decades, the Antioch City Council will discuss a variety of topics that may bring help to the downtown area.
On Tuesday, the Antioch City Council will get an update from the Waterfront Revitalization Subcommittee (Joy Motts & Monica Wilson) which the council will direct staff to proceed with their recommendations.
The topics include:
- Launching a pilot program to close 2nd Street between G Street and City Hall
- Establishment of parklets to allow for on-street outdoor dinning or business
- Installation of speed tables on 2nd Street
- Create a waterfront dining district in the downtown
- Development of an unreinforced masonry building policy
- Recommend that the Waterfront Revitalization Ad-hoc Committee be turned into a Standing Committee.
Back in February 2018, the Antioch city Council adopted its Downtown Specific Plan. The Planning Area boundaries of Downtown Antioch, for the purposes of this Specific Plan, are generally the San Joaquin River to the north, Fulton Shipyard Road to the east, 10th Street to the south, and Auto Center Drive to the west. This area is approximately 1.5 miles wide and 0.5 mile deep, with a total area of 0.75 square miles. The Planning Area boundaries generally reflect the traditional grid that was developed during the 19thand early 20th centuries.
Agenda: Click here.
8 comments
Great ideas, but before anything can can move forward, you have to move the homeless population out of there permanently. Nobody will want to utilize the area with a bunch of filthy, drunken, panhandling people hanging around.
Until that happens, don’t waste the time or money.
Exactly. Maybe catch the arsonist who keeps setting Fulton on fire. There aren’t any decent restaurants. The microwave food restaurant that replaced Humphrey’s, yuck!
I dont know why i keep getting the feeling that Antioch is accepting slush money to let in homeless people from other towns.. It is a dumping ground for homeless here.. Antioch is not able to attract big businesses around here. there may be too many grapevines around here ??
Goodluck gettin this done with sean the bozo wright in charge
Ahhhhhhh. Lots of constructive comments from the typical Antioch naysayers. Instead of attending meetings, or contacting the council members and mayor, and adding constructive suggestions on how to improve downtown to make it a destination…..we get “oh, the city is going to hell!” Shame on anyone who doesn’t contribute constructive comments. Guess whining and complaining is all they’ve got
I dont know why but we can start a large ferry service to cross the river to Collinsville as a shortcut to Dixon and the I-505 instead of going all way around through Rio Vista and west to Rt 113 to Dixon which is additional 20 miles. This may be a good start toward the revitalization of our old downtown . People living in Vacaville, Fairfield and Dixon as well as Davis may be coming here . People does not come here from the Bay Area . The Antioch Bridge is built for Sacramento bound people. We need a shortcut to the Solano towns mentioned above.. We dont want to use the Martinez bridge which is a waste of miles.. Antioch lacks north access as it is a river barrier. Route 113 can be widened to be safer. The State will see the reason to do so .. It will help if Antioch can find funds from the State or the Fed to finance at least a pair of large ferries that can depart and arrive every half hour or so. We can pay same toll as any bridges around the Bay Area.. with free return toll as any bridges. It would look silly to build another bridge to Collinsville so the ferry is the logical step at first .
Are you serious?? A ferry heading north will never be a priority. Trust me, NO ONE is dying to come to Antioch THAT much. The only problem with our access to the cities you mentioned is the one lane Antioch Bridge. Now, the ferry that IS needed is one to SF. However, I will bet you that when that ferry does happen it will berth at Oakley, which seems on the path to surpassing Antioch as the heart of East County
Hope so. Has so much potential!
Comments are closed.