Richard Berzoza

This strategic plan, Lewisville 2025, serves as a comprehensive vision and framework for the City of Lewisville's development over the next 10-15 years, targeting its 100th anniversary in 2025. The plan is built upon a foundation of extensive community input and is structured around three major themes: Big Issues, Big Ideas, and Big Moves. Its overarching vision is to foster a community characterized by diversity, connectivity, resource management, and growth. Key focus areas, known as "Big Moves," include creating a Green Centerpiece, extending green spaces throughout the city, revitalizing Old Town, maintaining thriving neighborhoods, expanding new neighborhood choices, enhancing employment centers, establishing identity focal points, improving marketing and communications, and embracing sustainability.

This document, an appendix to the I-35E Corridor Redevelopment Plan for the City of Lewisville, establishes a thematic vision and comprehensive design guidelines for the public infrastructure along the corridor. It aims to revitalize the area by enhancing character, creating memorable destinations, integrating neighborhoods, and improving accessibility. The plan proposes a unifying 'water' theme inspired by Lake Lewisville, with specific subarea themes for North-Water, Central-Urban (Old Town Lewisville), and South-Park sections. It provides principles and standards for development patterns, right-of-way treatments, natural spaces, access, lighting, street design, architecture, landscaping, and signage to guide consistent, high-quality redevelopment.

This plan outlines the vision and strategies for reconfiguring the IH-35E corridor in Lewisville, Texas, in response to highway widening. The overarching vision is to create memorable destinations by capitalizing on the corridor's diverse strengths and integrating nodes of activity to form a unified identity. Key strategic pillars include enhancing market growth, optimizing land use through increased densities and mixed-use development, improving transportation connectivity, leveraging open space and trails, and establishing distinct character through nodal development and gateways. The plan provides a roadmap for implementation through short-term and long-term strategies, guiding development and addressing impacts along the corridor.

The third session of the Mayor's Commission focused extensively on Human Resources and personnel matters, including recruiting, job posting, hiring, and promotions, as well as discipline. The discussion provided a detailed demographic overview of the current employee workforce, comparing it to the City of Louisville's citizen demographics from the 2019 census and showing demographic trends over the last two decades, noting that low turnover impedes diversity gains. Specific departmental demographics were reviewed for Public Services, Parks and Recreation, and Public Safety (Fire and Police Officers). Challenges in recruitment, particularly for certified firefighter/EMT/paramedics, were highlighted due to pre-COVID recruitment plans being altered by the pandemic. Furthermore, compensation structure, including the use of point factor analysis for new positions and starting pay adherence to the city's pay plan, was detailed. The implementation of a new Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist position to support proactive recruitment efforts was also noted.

This Master Plan for the Mill Street Corridor aims to reinvent Mill Street as a pedestrian-friendly and safe streetscape. It focuses on implementing streetscape enhancements and pedestrian amenities to create a comfortable and attractive environment. Key objectives include reducing vehicular speeds without negatively impacting traffic, ensuring safe circulation for pedestrians and vehicles, providing visual interest through vegetation, installing clear signage and wayfinding, and utilizing existing public realm dimensions to minimize costs. The plan seeks to establish Mill Street as a primary gateway to Old Town, reflecting the desired identity of Lewisville, and making it a viable corridor for accessing Old Town and future Transit Oriented Development.