The recently released Downtown Durango Vision Plan contains seven key commandments for maintaining a viable central business district. They are:

• Keep downtown authentic, a place that belongs to locals while being attractive to visitors.

• Maintain continuous ground floor activity and interest along Main Avenue.

• Reinforce downtown’s role as the heart of the community, embodying its identity, values and energy.

• Ensure that downtown remains economically and socially healthy as it faces competition from other centers around the community.

• Connect all parts of downtown so that its variety of activities can easily reinforce each other.

• Encourage walking, bicycling and the use of transit to reduce vehicular traffic and parking needs.

• Recognizing the importance of density without creating an urban atmosphere out of scale with the existing look and feel of downtown.