Website
www.ourwaterways.org
Primary Contact
Corrie Meyer
Director
Contact via email
Mission statement
Reconnecting to Our Waterways, or ROW, is an initiative that exists to reclaim the benefits of Indianapolis’ waterways; to provide opportunities for physical, human, and economic development. It’s about helping neighbors strengthen waterways, and in turn, helping waterways strengthen neighborhoods.
Actions
Actions are activities derived from the Plan 2020 planning process that a partner has committed to implement.
Reconnecting to Our Waterways is working on the following actions:
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Create a local artist database for each ROW focus waterway area
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2016
Progress
100%
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Increase and improve the pedestrian and bike network by 600 blocks within 3 miles of ROW focus waterways
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
35%
There has been 211 new blocks of pedestrian and bike network in ROW focus area since 2015 (baseline year)
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Promote 55 acres of waterway corridor restoration on public and private lands in ROW focus areas
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
76.04 acres of waterway corridor restoration in ROW areas
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Promote water quality through pollution prevention via creation and implementation of toolkits and information dashboards for key stakeholders
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Multiple toolkits have been development and shared with ROW partners, include "All thing Water: Home Owner Guide" and Invasive removal toolkit
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Increase residential, commercial, and real property tax base by 10% within 1/2-mile of ROW focus waterways
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
43%
Average residential (14.2%) and commercial (-5.6%) AV % change in 2019 was 4.3% from 2015
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Assess, remediate, and/or redevelop 70,000 square feet of industrial/brownfield land within 1/2-mile of ROW focus waterways
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
80%
Assisted with 55,914 square feet of industrial/brownfield redevelopment
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Install educational signage at all large and medium scale cultural destinations within 1/2-mile of a ROW waterway to promote stewardship, the value, importance and/or history of the waterway
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
90%
17 new signs to be installed summer 2020
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Increase community awareness of environmental health issues around the waterways through educational installations and/ or programming along the waterways and/or destination location
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
60%
Not very measurable, ROW has held educational events and programs to educate health issues around the waterways.
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Incorporate and maintain Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) features at ROW destination location and along the waterways
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
85%
Strategy
Make Indianapolis waterways a community asset that provide cultural, economic, and educational opportunities focused at key destinations
Action
Create a system-wide, 5-yr master plan to coordinate all efforts on all waterways
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Created a 3-yr strat plan and currently updating the plan another 2- years