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force we have about ten members; they come from the school district, the police department, the health department, the engineering depart- ment; we have representation from Share the Road; and we have two alderpersons that sit on the committee, one of whom is also a county commissioner. In the short year that we’ve been around, we’ve been able to stripe between two and three miles of roadway.” Staff Engineer, Andrew Beyer, elaborates: “We’ve prioritized our low and high value streets; short-term and long-term goals,” he states. “Short-term being a simple striping; long-term being shared use paths or capital outlay projects that we need to budget for. This year, we’re going to be soliciting a grant from our hospital foundation, the Greater Wa- tertown Community Health Foundation, for a shared-use path along Carriage Hill Drive that connects West Main Street to our largest city park, Brandt-Quirk Park. It would serve the high school, Maranatha Baptist University, and sever- al subdivisions, as well.” “And we’re going to be looking to go back in for that TAP grant,” says Holloway. “That will be- come available again this coming October with the grant due in January 2018. One entity can submit multiple applications and we’re looking at submitting at least three. Two would be to expand some shared-use paths in and around our city hospital and the neighborhoods around there. Part of that project will also connect some of those subdivisions with a new conve- nience store/gas station, Kwik Trip. That area is WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN currently underserved by that type of business, so now that it’s been built, everyone’s clamoring to have ways to safely get there.” “There’s another one that we’ll be putting in,” adds Holloway. “The state came to town, maybe 15 years ago, and redid a highway through town. The old highway was turned over to the city. Just to the south end of that,we had a Wal-Mart that was built and,where there are sidewalks and bicycle lanes to the north of that street, there are no side- walks or bicycle lanes directly to the Wal-Mart. So, one of our grants would be to put a shared-use path on that missing section, so that the college and preparatory high school students, and resi- dents can use that to safely get to the Wal-Mart.” Watertown is also working to preserve the cleanliness of its river. “We’re in the Rock River Watershed,” says Holloway, “which is an ‘occlud- redevelopment-resources.com 211 S. Paterson St., Suite 320 • Madison, Wisconsin 53703 • Phone: 608-729-1807 REDEVE LOPMENT RE SOURCE S One Brick, One Business, One Block at a Time. OUR SPECIALTIES: • Organizational Structure Analysis • Bridge Management • Strategic Planning • Non-Profit Entity Creation and Development • Full Grant Writing Services • Real Estate Development and Redevelopment • Retail Consulting • Downtown TIF Development • Blight Elimination • Master Planning and Visioning We’ve successfully improved downtown environments at various levels of involvement, from developing a plan to working hand-in-hand with a community to implement the plan. We’ve recruited developers, developed façade loan programs, eliminated blight (yes – torn down buildings) and created dynamic public spaces. All this with a variety of funding sources and stakeholder involvement.