Cincinnati City Council has approved unanimously a pair of ordinances that will help pay for the first new wayfinding signage in the Uptown neighborhoods since the early 1980s.
The first ordinance allows the City to apply for a $1 million grant from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) to help pay for the design, construction and installation of a unified directional signage system.
The second ordinance allows the City to accept $250,000 from the Uptown Consortium to be used as matching funds for the project.
The City's Department of Transportation and Engineering has also promised an additional $250,000.
The new signage is a recommendation of the 2006 Uptown Transportation Plan, which was approved by the OKI board of directors in January 2007.
That plan recommended a total of 610 vehicular, pedestrian and directory signs for the neighborhoods at a total cost of between $807,000 and $1.2 million.
Previous reading on BC:
Ordinances could pay for Uptown wayfinding (6/13/08)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Uptown wayfinding grant approved
