indoor & outdoor attractions

Maumee needs more small businesses throughout neighborhoods to create a more walk-able and well-rounded community. Separating zoning by usage is not environmentally friendly or socially equitable.

• Weekly farmer’s market (Union, Wolcott Grounds, Park by the library)

• Outdoor entertainment/music/movies

• Encourage block parties (Have a city-wide time for block parties)

• Creation of central outdoor space for community events (like a town square)

• Keep up play spaces at parks and implement more wild spaces and nature learning opportunities

• Community center (outdoor and indoor space)

• Encourage community garage sales by setting aside dates in the spring/fall

• Create an arts commission to find local artists/talent to create public art, murals, art festivals

• More retail & restaurants & bakeries & corner stores & hardware stores

• Wider sidewalks

• Incentives for small businesses who offer locally grown or created/produced items

• Facade enhancement program

• Signage upgrade program

• Extend a dense uptown along some east-west streets

• Mixed-use areas/traditional neighborhood design across the city

• Shared off-street parking spaces

• Encourage restaurants to grow their own food locally in urban farm spaces (see Balance in downtown Toledo & urban farm in Ohio City in Cleveland area)

• Create space for Indoor market with local vendors selling homemade goods year-round (see Plymouth, MI)