The City of Morgan Hill is collecting ideas to boost downtown as
the place to shop, to dine, to live or to be entertained. And it
has money to ease the way.
The City of Morgan Hill is collecting ideas to boost downtown as the place to shop, to dine, to live or to be entertained. And it has money to ease the way.
The city has just completed a 10-month community planning effort that creates a vision for the future development and improvement of the downtown. To keep the enthusiasm and ideas flowing, the Morgan Hill Redevelopment Agency (RDA) will make $3 million available for projects that will help bring the downtown to the next level of activity and vitality; proposals that support the new Downtown Plan.
Projects can be transit-oriented, mixed-use commercial, all residential or designed for entertainment.
The RDA has issued a Downtown Request for Concepts which invites anyone interested in the downtown to submit projects for Agency consideration, not just professional developers. The project may only be conceptual at this point and control of the site is not required at this time.
RDA funds for the RFC come from three sources: $1 million for use in commercial projects; $1 million from the low to moderate housing fund for the rehabilitation or new construction of affordable housing; and $1 million for infrastructure improvements to augment all projects in accordance with the new Downtown Plan. This is a one-time opportunity to present project concepts to the RDA.
Visit the City’s website at www.morgan-hill.ca.gov for on-line copies of the Downtown Plan (and other supporting studies). If you wish further information on the RFC process, contact Bill Newkirk at 776-7373 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Deadline for submittals is July 31.
