Downtown Dover Parking Study available
Downtown Dover Parking Study now available
The Downtown Dover Parking Study is an initiative of the City of Dover and the Dover / Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (DKCMPO), in partnership with the Downtown Dover Partnership (DDP). These partners retained our consulting team, led by Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. (Langan) and with KSK Architects Planners and Historians, Inc. (KSK), to take a fresh look at the issue of parking downtown, and to come up with a series of recommendations that would be updated from the last time a parking study was conducted in 2004 and would reinforce attempts to redevelop and bring fresh vitality downtown.The primary study area for this new study was bound by Water Street to the south, West Street to the west, Fulton Street to the north and State Street to the east. Additionally we also studied the area around the City Hall Lot which is bound by State Street to the west, Division Street to the north, Water Street to the south and Park Drive to the east.
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Read the latest edition of the MPO’s newsletter
The fall edition of the Dover/Kent County MPO’s newsletter, Journeys, is now available. Click here to view, or go to the home page of this website and look under Publications in the Resources tab. To subscribe via e-mail to the MPO’s newsletter, contact Kate Layton at kate.layton@doverkentmpo.org.
Dover/Kent County MPO Hires New Executive Director
Dover/Kent County MPO has new executive director
Reed Macmillan hired to take on role as agency leader
CAMDEN — The Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization has hired a new executive director. On Oct. 18, the MPO Council voted to approve the hire of Reed Macmillan. Macmillan’s first day at the MPO will be Monday, Oct. 30.
“I am happy to have been selected as the next executive director for the Dover/Kent MPO and look forward working with the MPO staff and council as we continue to perform regional transportation planning services and transportation planning coordination within the region,” Macmillan said.
Macmillan, of Middletown, comes to the MPO from New Castle County government where he has worked since 2002. Most recently, he worked in New Castle County’s Department of Land Use as the assistant land use general manager. There, Macmillan performed high level management duties overseeing the department’s various operations and functions. These duties included comprehensive planning, licensing and building inspections, permitting, land development plan review, zoning, transportation, historic preservation, administrative hearings and more. Prior to his employment with New Castle County, Macmillan worked for Kent County’s Department of Planning Services, and in Aberdeen, Md. for the Aberdeen Proving Ground in its environmental conservation and restoration division. He also served as an environmental specialist for the Maryland Military Department, Fifth Regiment Armory, located in Baltimore.
Macmillan is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer whose last assignment was in 2015 for the First Mobilization Support Group in Fort Totten, N.Y. During his service, Macmillan was deployed twice overseas with the military to Kuwait in 2004, and to Iraq in 2008.
“As chairman of the Dover/Kent County MPO, I am pleased to welcome Mr. Macmillan on board,” Dover Mayor and MPO Council Chairman Robin R. Christiansen said. “As Kent County continues to grow, we need to not only plan for all modes of transportation today, but anticipate the needs of a growing and prosperous community in the future. Mr. Macmillan his staff will help make that vision a reality.”
Macmillan has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Environmental Planning, both from Towson University, and a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.
The Dover/Kent County welcomes Macmillan to the team. He will be the MPO’s third executive director in its 25-year existence. The first was Juanita Wieczoreck from 1994 to 2011, followed by Rich Vetter who served as executive director from 2011 to earlier this year.
MPO Regional Bike Plan update approved
The Dover/Kent County MPO has a new Regional Bicycle Plan.
On Sept. 13, the MPO Council approved an updated plan regarding bicycle amenities around central Delaware.
The MPO first published its Regional Bicycle Plan in 2011. Work started last year to set new goals and objectives for bicycling in central Delaware based upon existing infrastructure and what’s been accomplished in the last few years.
A copy of the revised plan is available here and under the Publications tab on this website’s home page.
Downtown Dover Parking Study: Photos and Links
Thank you to all who attended the Aug. 24 meeting for the Downtown Dover Parking Study. We had a good crowd due to your attendance. If you were not able to make the meeting, a link to a presentation and a survey for the parking study are available here.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DoverParkingStudy
http://clients.langan.com/lph/default.aspx?postTransaction=498074968
Approved FY 2018 TIP is available for view
The new Transportation Improvement Program for FY 2018 to 2021 is available to view. Click here to view.
Comment period now open for MPO Public Participation Plan
DOVER – The Dover/Kent County MPO will open a 45-day public comment period regarding a draft of its updated public participation plan.
The plan outlines how the MPO seeks public input for its plans and programs and keeps meetings open to residents and the press. Federal rules require MPOs to have public participation plans. MPO staff will welcome comments on the plan and suggestions as to how it can further keep central Delaware residents informed of its activities and programs. The public comment period will run from May 16 to June 30, 2016.
Click here to view a copy of the draft plan. To comment, contact MPO Public Liaison Kate Layton at (302) 387-6026 or at kate.layton@doverkentmpo.org. The MPO’s mailing address is P.O. Box 383, Dover, DE 19903.
Photos from June 8 MTP Public Workshop
On Wednesday, June 8, the Dover/Kent County MPO held a public workshop regarding its Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Here are some photos from the evening, including PDFs of maps and information boards.
MPO Public Advisory Committee meeting set for Feb. 23
MPO’s Public Advisory Committee meets in February
CAMDEN — Join the Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Public Advisory Committee when it meets at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23 in Room 221 of the Kent County Levy Court Administrative Complex at 555 Bay Road in Dover.
In its first meeting of the year, the PAC will discuss the MPO’s upcoming long-range plan, which looks at transportation plans and projects from fiscal years 2017 to 2040. MPO staff also is set to give a presentation regarding its Capital Gateway Study for downtown Dover, as well as the MPO’s Environmental Justice policy.
PAC members are scheduled to discuss the MPO’s proposed FY2017 spending plan, or Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP), as well as examine and possibly vote on updates to the MPO’s Public Participation Plan.
The PAC is comprised of community volunteers who are appointed to the group. The group ensures that the MPO receives input from the public regarding all transportation plans, programs and policies that the MPO Council adopts. PAC members come from diverse backgrounds who are interested in planning and transportation.
This meeting is open to the public, which is encouraged to attend. For more information, call the MPO at 387-6026 or 387-6030. The MPO also is on Facebook and Twitter.
