| DOWNTOWN ONTARIO |
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| Vision P lan and Des ign Pr inc iples |
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| Town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York |
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| Introduction |
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| The Town of Ontario is one of the fastest growing |
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| communities in Wayne County. Despite an |
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| increase in population, however, there has been a |
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| steady decline in the function and utilization of the |
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| Downtown Ontario business district, once a thriving |
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| center of commerce and community social life. |
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| While the downtown still retains much of its older |
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| building fabric and many attractive human-scale |
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| characteristics, vehicular traffic has been drawn to |
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| nearby Route 104 and other commercial areas. |
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| Concern about the appearance and economic |
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| vitality led to the formation of a Business |
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| Improvement District (BID) to provide the |
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| mechanism and support for downtown revitalization. |
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| Working in collaboration with the Town of Ontario |
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| and the Wayne County Planning Department, |
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| the BID steering committee determined that a |
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