Absentee downtown building owners

Hi,

Has anyone run across any successful programs that engage absentee owners of downtown buildings in building improvements? Has anyone experienced a community that got people on board with a municipal design standards ordinance that could share some best practices that ease backlash to this type of proposal?

Andy Lewis – could you post this to your blog to facilitate and log responses? Anyone can go there once its posted with responses: http://ablewis.blogspot.com/.

Thanks everyone!
Amy

Amy R. Schanhofer
Community Resource Development Educator
UW-Extension, Monroe County

Phone: 608-269-8722/608-372-8722
TDD 800-947-3529
FAX 608-269-8767/608-372-8767

14345 CTH B, Room 1
Sparta, WI 54656

http://monroe.uwex.edu/cnred