Covington’s planning department is seeking input from residents on what downtown should look like as it continues to grow.

A meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27, in the Community Room at Covington City Hall.

This public meeting is the second of two meetings aimed to gain the public’s input and opinions about Covington’s downtown plan, which was adopted in 2005, but has served primarily as a big picture document.

But in the past year or so the Covington City Council realized the plan needed more detail so that developers could build according to the council’s vision for downtown.

Richard Hart, planning manager for the city, told the Reporter in March that the goal for the revised downtown plan would be “hopefully to encourage the kind of development they wanted to fulfill their vision of a mixed development as well as being a leader in transportation.”

The upcoming meeting will focus more about forms of town centers and alternate locations for a town center within the city, according to information provided by city spokeswoman Karla Slate. Information about the downtown plan revisions will be provided while residents will have the opportunity to share their input on what downtown should become.

For information contact Hart at (253) 638-1110 or rhart@ci.covington.wa.us.