SEQUIM — They’re looking for vitamins for downtown.
Or perhaps a fountain of youth.
The Sequim City Council waded deep into the Town Center Sub-Area Plan on Monday, devoting the study session to the blueprint for — as architect and Councilman Ken Hays put it — “a more beautiful, evolved city.”
The sub-area plan is only a draft at this point, and the city will probably hire an urban-planning consultant to refine it and add visual aids.
But the council members heard Monday about what could take shape downtown:
Then there are the more controversial elements:
Sequim’s vision statement, given in the 2006 Comprehensive Plan update, complicates the downtown-planning process, said Capital Projects Manager Frank Needham.
He called the comma-laden statement a “contradiction.”
Others might call it an oxymoron.
