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City of Key West – Let Our Restaurants Take the Streets!
Posted on May 6, 2020 1 Comment
Photo Credit KONK Life By Chris Hamilton, May 6, 2020 With indoor seating for restaurants limited to 25% of capacity, it is time to let our struggling local restaurants take to the sidewalks and streets for customer seating. A 50 seat restaurant is now limited to 13 seats indoors. Who can survive on that? We have […]
COMMISSION: NO MORE FREE RIDE FOR YOU
Posted on May 5, 2020 1 Comment
By Chris Hamilton, Tuesday, May 5, 2020; 7:30 pm With only Commissioners Kaufman and Weekley voting NO, the Key West City Commission voted 5-2 on Tuesday night to impose a $1.00 boarding fee for visitors using the City’s Duval Loop. While not in the published reports, Commissioners had been swayed by the City Manager and […]
Keep Duval Loop FREE For Visitors
Posted on April 30, 2020 3 Comments
By Chris Hamilton, April 30, 2020 People have until Monday afternoon, May 4, to voice their opinion on Item #7 using the City’s eComment here: https://bit.ly/2VQmasT Launched in August of 2017, the Duval Loop quickly became a favorite of visitors and all the lodging, attractions, restaurant and retail businesses in our downtown. The service is successful […]
20 Parklets on Duval in 2020
Posted on April 28, 2020 1 Comment
By Chris Hamilton, April 28, 2020 This is a more in-depth follow up to our article “3 Quick Wins for Revitalizing Duval Street” where we advocated for quickly putting in parklets, bike parking and letting people take the street as a way to pedestrianize Duval, even if closing it off to cars completely or rebuilding it […]
Reimagining Key West – 3 Quick Wins for Revitalizing Duval Street
Posted on April 24, 2020 5 Comments
Please check out our follow-up article “City of Key West – Let Our Restaurants Take Our Streets!” May 6, 2020. By Chris Hamilton, April 24, 2020 With lots of good people thinking about Reimagining Key West in a post Coronavirus world, there have been several popular calls for pedestrianizing Duval Street, especially the portion between Front […]
Reimagining Key West – 10 Things We Should Strive For and 10 Ways To Get There
Posted on April 22, 2020 3 Comments
Photo Credit: Rob O’Neil, March 29, 2020
89 Great Streets in the U.S.A.
Posted on April 17, 2020 Leave a Comment
Of the American Planning Association‘s (APA) 306 Great Places in America, 89 of them are designated as Great Streets. The balance of these places are either neighborhoods or public spaces. APA designated the Great Places in the years 2007-2019 and is currently working on releasing their winners for 2020. Key West’s Duval Street is among […]
ELGL’s 2017 Traeger Award Winners
Posted on April 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
Chris Hamilton #42 on 2017 Chris Traeger 100 List Engaging Local Government Leaders‘ (ELGL) Chris Traeger List recognizes the top 100 influencers in local government. Chris Traeger was the city manager for the fictional City of Pawnee, Indiana on the show Park and Recreation. He was known for extreme energy and commitment to improving local government. The […]
It’s Too Early!
Posted on March 31, 2020 1 Comment
Friends of Car-Free Key West‘s Chris Hamilton joins Key West journalist Gwen Filosa on her weekday morning show “It’s Too Early!” on Island 106.9 FM on December 17, 2019. Gwen and Chris had a rollicking good time talking about bikes and cars, about some wonderful new things the City of Key West is doing, about […]
10 Tools to Tackle Most Any City’s Downtown Traffic and Parking Problems
Posted on June 9, 2016 Leave a Comment
This post is derived from a discussion given at The Last Stand Neighborhood Forum on Transportation and Affordable Housing on June 9, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Eco-Discovery Center in Key West, FL and has been updated with additional information over the last year. A snippet of video from the event is here . Cities small […]