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8/21/18 <br />3.7 Construct a small, premium ballfield for very young children to expand uses and broaden the types and <br />ages of people visiting and enjoying downtown. <br />3.8 Add a soccer field to Wise Field Park to encourage higher usage at that historic park. <br />3.9 Place trees at the northeast and southeast corners of East Houston and 1" Street NW. <br />3.10 Actively pursue opportunities to acquire and plant an appropriate mix of urban trees. <br />3.11 Pursue the creation of mural(s) and/or other improvements on the east -facing building on 2nd Street. <br />3.12 Encourage fixed public art as well as interactive art, using public and private funds, and developer <br />assessments, to be located/conducted on public spaces, with Market Square, the library, the plaza, <br />downtown entryways, and Bywaters Park as preferred locations. <br />3.13 Design and construct a water feature, using existing improved stormwater facilities, thereby enhancing <br />aesthetics, improving drainage function, and creating a potential gathering space. <br />3.14 Identify a site for a community -built playground and construct and maintain a quality wooden structure, <br />designed to match the local built environment and be inviting but unobtrusive. The project should be <br />contiguous or very close to other city facilities/activities to enhance synergy and to more efficiently use <br />available parking. <br />3.15 Evaluate means to expand individual property ownership to curb edge to encourage outside restaurant <br />seating and alcohol service, and initiate the processes where feasible. Also develop a lease for such <br />activities on public property, and create and adopt the requisite ordinance(s). <br />3.16 Encourage a residential component to help create an evening life for the downtown, using zoning, <br />economic incentives, partnership, and any and all other tools that may become available. <br />3.17 In order to soften the look of the old parking area as visible from a main arterial and state highway, add <br />landscaping in the small open space at the corner of Grand and 2nd NW. <br />3.18 Pave/landscape/improve the small city parking area at northeast corner of Kaufman and Church. <br />