Presentation from the "Build on the Vision for Downtown Lynn" Team of Advisors Meeting held on April 10, 2013 at Lynn City Hall in Massachusetts. For more information about this project, please visit http://www.mapc.org/downtownlynn.

1. Build on the Vision for Downtown Lynn
Team of Advisors Meeting 3
8:00-10:00am, Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Lynn City Hall Room 302, 3 City Hall Square
Lynn, Massachusetts 01901

2. Agenda
8:00-8:10: Introductions and updates
8:10-8:40: Progress updates and what’s next
8:40-9:10: Saturday’s field survey
9:10-9:40: Project conclusion and afterward
9:40-10:00: Open discussion

3. Progress update and what’s next
Our conversations with the community

4. MAPC has met with…
• Team of Advisors
• City departments, agencies, and officials
• Downtown businesses, business associations, and
developers
• Community-based nonprofit and religious
organizations
• Arts and cultural organizations
• Academic and health institutions
• Residents

5. What we have heard:
Community leadership and coordination
• Pride for Lynn and enthusiasm for its future
• City and agency staff show up when invited
• Lynn nonprofits offer many resources
• Communication, coordination not transparent
• Need to cultivate more community leaders

6. What we have heard:
Development Successes and Challenges
• City has made targeted investments
• Zoning is dated, confusing, sometimes
contradictory, both restrictive and
permissive
• Fear that zoning changes will lead to loss
of control
• Permitting and enforcement uneven
• Lack of predictability for developers,
investors
• Big picture, coordinated approach needed
for planning and development

7. What we have heard:
Downtown assets and challenges
• Desire to make Downtown an arts, culture,
dining destination
• Need to embrace existing destination
businesses
• Need to capitalize on location
• Embrace Downtown’s diversity
• Lynn’s subsidized housing is concentrated here
• Need to increase tax base and disposable
income flowing through Downtown

8. MAPC would like to meet with:
• City Councilors
• Lynn Nonprofit Business Association
• Downtown Lynn Neighborhood Association
• Seniors
• Youth
• Developers and real estate professionals
• Anyone else that we missed?

9. Project event dates
Saturday, April 13, 10:00am-4:00pm:
Downtown Lynn Field Survey
Thursday, April 25, 6:00-8:00pm:
MAPC at DTLcd Community Collective
Thursday, May 23, 6:00-9:00pm:
Build on the Vision for Downtown Lynn Public Forum
Tuesday, June 11, 8:00pm:
MAPC presentation to Lynn City Council (tentative)
Monday, June 24, 6:00pm:
Project conclusion and celebration, details TBD

10. Field survey & property database
What can data do for Downtown Lynn?

11. Project conclusion & afterward
Where are we headed?

12. Open discussion