Seek to fill any ground-floor retail vacancies with appropriate types of businesses.
- Employ strategies to fill storefronts and keep the streetscape active.
- Inventory and monitor underutilized storefronts.
- Consider an ordinance to impose a vacancy fee to penalize building owners that leave storefronts vacant for extended periods of time
- Establish a retail strategy to fill vacant retail spaces, which could include measures such as allowing temporary popups, flexible retail, or nonretail uses.
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