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The City should take the opportunity to do the additional enhancements when doing the necessary maintenance: (26) The City should take the opportunity to do the additional enhancements when doing the necessary maintenance, only if the enhancements can be justified in a cost/benefit analysis: (20) What are the most important factors in your opinion? • Beautification of city, making it more accessible to pedestrians. (2) • The city should do enhancements when doing maintenance. However, I would not include parking now. Deal with parking when we run out of current capacity. • Downtown is a quaint place and I'm proud of our small city. We can always improve. • Beautifying the city is never wasteful—ambience is important to drawing in tourists and would-be consumers. • Take a break from spending! (2) • Layout a plan, achieve the level of enhancements that the community desires as replacement, reconstruction and maintenance projects occur. • This is the best time to do the needed improvements! The added enhancements will really spruce up the area and increase value of downtown. • We don't need improvements in the downtown area. • Beautify our town. But keep it local and cost efficient. Investment in Industrial Park Expansion The City is investigating options for expanding the existing industrial park to the south. Options may include expansion of sewer and water utilities or may simply include basic improvements for industrial development without utilities. As a general rule, development with utilities will yield a higher tax base return, but at a higher cost. There are currently no cost estimates for these improvements. The City should not be looking to expand the industrial park: (4) The City should look to expand the industrial park, but without the expense of utilities: (1) The City should expand the industrial park,with utilities provided: (8) The City should expand the industrial park,with utilities provided, but only where a cost/benefit analysis justifies the improvement: (38)