The adoption of the Uniform Conservation Building Code, which accommodates remodeling historic buildings. There is no master plan or design guidelines for Downtown and no City-created special districts. There are several National Register Historic Districts. The development process for Downtown still suffers from code and enforcement attuned to suburban growth. The Citizens Planning Committee and its successor, the Citizens Planning Implementation Committee, have made some progress in identifying problems and moving towards solutions.
Downtown still needs both an alternative code and a simplified process for development.
There is no consensus vision and no strategy guiding government actions. Development in any Downtown is more difficult than development of raw land. However, there are ways to ease the problems. Building codes can encourage redevelopment or hamstring it. Code enforcers can facilitate or kill redevelopment.