Committee On Housing & Community Development Discuss Magoun Square

The Committee on Housing & Community Development will convene tomorrow night at 5:30pm in the Second Floor Committee Room of City Hall to discuss numerous agenda items, two of which concern Magoun Square.

Item #189727 asks that the Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development provide a written report to the Committee on Housing and Community Development after the meeting of OSPCD, the Magoun Square business owners and the Ward Five Alderman, (which will be held to work on specific concerns relating to parking and other issues affecting the decline in business in Magoun Square), detailing the progress and proposed planning for improving the business climate in Magoun Square.

This item was discussed, most recently, in 2011 which included the below embedded report being presented by the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development to attendees.








The most recent legislative file that will also be discussed is number 192480 and asks that the Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development update this Board on any and all initiatives to rectify the lack of economic growth in the Magoun Square area.


Other items on the agenda include submissions concerning the West Branch Library and Union Square.