Overall Workshop Goals
- Existing Conditions: Confirm existing challenges, barriers, concerns, and
- opportunities
- Community Priorities: Gather community input on priorities to inform draft
- corridor vision
- Input for Alternatives Development: Collaboratively explore potential directions
- for draft alternatives related to mobility, placemaking, and economic development
What We Heard
We asked the community about the future of Downtown Sebastopol—what you love most about Main Street, how different travel modes should be prioritized, and the ideas that could make our downtown more vibrant, welcoming, and economically thriving—and here’s what we heard.
What do you like most about downtown?
- Walkability
- Community
- Access to trails and parks
- Locally owned businesses
- Convenient parking
What would you most like to change about downtown?
- Traffic and congestion (slow speeds, less/no cars)
- More greenery
- Enhanced bicycle and pedestrian facilities
- More parklets
- Repurpose underutilized parking
What are some features of other downtown streets that we want here?
- Bulbouts (with plantings)
- Angled parking
- Trees
- Benches
- Parklets
- Wider sidewalks
- Off-street parking
Who should we be prioritizing in the Downtown streets?
What are our priorities for downtown streets?
Looking for More Details? Check out these additional summaries of additional events and the full summary of the online survey too:
- A high level summary for Phase 1 Engagement is linked here.
- Feedback from the Online Survey is summarized and linked here.
- A version of the above summary of Workshop #1 is linked here.
