Transcript of Sustainable Dubuque (2015 Keep Iowa Beautiful Annual Conference)
- 1. For decades, Dubuque has prospered as a strategic
industrial, wholesale, and retail center dominating a vast
tri-state marketland. while unemployment at 1.5% was the lowest
percentage ever recorded. July 1965 Dubuque: A Historical
Perspective 2
- 2. Dubuque: A Historical Perspective Dubuques plight is
becoming desperate. It suffered more severely during the recent
recession, and has for the past three years had the highest
unemployment rate of Iowas SMSAs (largest cities).That unfortunate
fact is no surprise to Dubuquers. It has been losing both industry
and retail business consistently for the past decade. Dubuque is
losing its people. Recent estimates show 10% of the housing stock
vacant or available for sale. The Dubuque Connection, 1983 Chamber
of Commerce Publication 3
- 3. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Adopted in 1995, replaced 1936 plan
Updated 2002, 2008, and 2012 4
- 4. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said
the Cat. I dont much care where, said Alice. Then is doesnt matter
which way you go, said the Cat. Where to now? 5
- 5. Five-Year Community Goals for a Sustainable Dubuque
Five-Year City Goals Five-Year Organizational Goal
- 6. Dubuque County Employment 37,700 59,900 0 10,000 20,000
30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 1983 2014 31 years = 59%
increase
- 7. Dubuque County Avg. Hourly Wage $0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25 1991
2014 103% increase over 23 years exceeding inflation by 29%
- 8. Dubuque County Employment 3% 11% 8%
- 9. Home Price Appreciation: 2008-2013 -30% -25% -20% -15% -10%
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% Dubuque SiouxCity Waterloo IowaCity QuadCities
CedarRapids CouncilBluffs DesMoines/WDM Chicago DaytonaBeach
NationalAve.
- 10. Community Design Resource Management Smart Energy Use
Regional Economy Healthy Air Native Plants & Animals Clean
Water Reasonable Mobility Community Health & Safety Community
Knowledge Green Buildings Healthy Local Foods Economic Prosperity
Environmental Integrity Social/Cultural Vibrancy
- 11. Green Buildings, Community Design, Reasonable Mobility
Smart Energy Use, Resource Management Regional Economy, Smart
Energy Use Community Knowledge, Reasonable Mobility, Community
Health & Safety Healthy Local Foods, Community Health &
Safety Clean Water, Healthy Air, Native Plants & Animals
Community Knowledge
- 12. 79.9% 60.5% 57.4% 77% 42.2% 60.3% 43.6% Innovation: + 43.6
points Dubuques Score: 468/600
- 13. Lower Bee Branch/16th Street Detention Basin
- 14. Upper Bee Branch Estimated Completion Date: Late 2016
- 15. Upper Bee Branch Landscape Concepts Biofield Plugs - Dry
Mix Biofield Plugs - Mesic Mix
- 16. Upper Bee Branch Landscape Concepts Shortgrass Prairie Mix
TypicalBluegrass Lawn Fescue Lawn
- 17. Green Alley Program Before Photos
- 18. Green Alley Program After Photos
- 19. 32nd St. Detention Basin
- 20. Upper Bee Branch Creek Restoration Video
- 21. Annual Public Sculpture Exhibit
- 22. Annual Public Sculpture Exhibit
- 23. Millwork District Complete Streets
- 24. Bee Branch Project = 96 hanging baskets, planting beds
& native landscape Historic Millwork District = 100 hanging
baskets & planters Port of Dubuque = 100 Hanging Baskets,
flower beds & planters
- 25. 80,000+ flowers are grown each year City employment
complement includes a one full-time horticulturalist and three
full-time assistant horticulturists
- 26. 16 Community Parks 6 Neighborhood Parks 28 Mini Parks 30
miles of trails
- 27. 95% of residents live within a quarter-mile walk of a park
or green space National standard = 70%
- 28. Over $150,000 spent in Dubuque County in 2014 to clean up
illegal dump sites and litter County-wide task force established in
2011 Illegal Dumping Enforcement Officer
- 29. Will the last person to leave Dubuque please turn out the
lights? Dubuque t-shirt slogan in the 1980s (9% - 24%
unemployment)
- 30. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 31. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 32. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 33. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 34. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 35. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 36. Port of Dubuque -- Early 1990s
- 37. Few Iowa cities were hit harder in the 80s. Few have a
better outlook now. Des Moines Register December 2002
- 38. Port of Dubuque -- Today
- 39. Mississippi RiverWalk & Grand River Center
- 40. Grand Harbor Resort & Indoor Waterpark
- 41. Mississippi River Walk
- 42. Grand Harbor Resort & Indoor Waterpark
- 43. Mississippi RiverWalk
- 44. Grand River Conference & Event Center
- 45. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 46. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 47. Named an All-America City 3 times in 7 years National Civic
League 2007, 2012, 2013
- 48. Mississippi RiverWalk & Amenities
- 49. Mississippi RiverWalk & Amenities
- 50. Dubuque Water Trail
- 51. Grand River Conference & Event Center
- 52. Best Small City to Raise a Family Forbes 2010
- 53. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 54. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 55. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 56. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 57. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 58. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
- 59. One of the 10 Great Places to Live for 2013 Kiplingers
Personal Finance
- 60. #1 for Upward Mobility among communities under 200,000 The
Equality of Opportunity Project 2013
- 61. Dubuque Star Brewery & Alliant Energy Amphitheater
- 62. Dubuque Star Brewery & Alliant Energy Amphitheater
- 63. Americas River Festival
- 64. Port of Dubuque Marina
- 65. The face of the river, in time, became a wonderful book . .
. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it
had a new story to tell every day. Mark TwainLife on the
Mississippi
- 66. Thank you! Mike Van Milligen, City Manager
ctymgr@cityofdubuque.org 563-589-4110 www.cityofdubuque.org
www.sustainabledubuque.org