Council to Hear Plan by Business Owners
In the latest chapter to the long-running saga of how to spruce up Thousand Oaks’ main commercial corridor, the City Council will discuss Tuesday whether to lend a hand to some local business owners who have banded together to improve their stretch of Thousand Oaks Boulevard.
The West Boulevard Business Group is asking the council to support its plans to improve the section of Thousand Oaks Boulevard public right of way between Moorpark Road and the Moorpark Freeway.
The planned improvements would include such measures as adding landscaping, trees, fountains, crosswalks, clocks, street lamps and benches.
City officials are recommending that the council do so and, in addition, authorize them to work with the group on a blueprint for the improvements funded by Community Development Block Grant money.
The blueprint would eventually go before the council for review and possible funding.
“The West Boulevard Business Group represents a clear consensus approach to meaningful physical and economic improvements to this section of the Boulevard . . . and creates a model that could perhaps be used elsewhere along the boulevard in the future,” a team of city officials working on enhancing the corridor wrote in a city report.
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