The Future of Music and Entertainment

Community Policing in Hospitality Zones

Multi-use Sidewalks

Late-night Integrated Transportation

Security, Service and Safety

Quality of Life

Facilitators

Multi-use Sidewalks

As cities grow and revitalize, traditional conceptions of "the downtown" are beginning to change. Downtowns were once considered to be a group of isolated, independent businesses.  Today, they are cohesive collectives. With thematic identities ranging from sophisticated to bohemian, the downtown itself is fast evolving into a popular hospitality destination. As a result, the role of the sidewalk has expanded from a mere pathway for pedestrians to a new and vibrant venue that serves various social and cultural functions. The sidewalk of modern times, the ‘multi-use sidewalk’, offers unique opportunities for dining, entertainment, shopping, and most importantly, people watching. However, the emergence of the sidewalk as a hospitality venue presents new planning, managing, and policing challenges.

Topics

Who Should Attend

• How to manage impacts of outdoor dining, street entertainment, vendors and panhandling to promote street vibrancy

• Designing outdoor cafes with ADA-approved pedestrian clearance, access to public services and display signs

• Regulating alcohol beverage service in outdoor cafe

• Effective procedures for licensing and auditioning street entertainers, including guidelines for location restrictions

• Tackling aggressive panhandling through time, place and manner restrictions and public education campaigns

• Benefits of creating a vendor advisory body to serve as a liaison between the vending industry and other stakeholders

• Designating methods of trash removal and clean up for outdoor cafes and vendors

• Downtown business directors

• Hospitality associations

• Event planners

• Arts councils

• Code and law enforcement

• Social service agencies