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All of the activities downtown should be developed in accordance with the principles outlined in the work plan. All of the principles have implications for the development and accommodation of activities. Many of work products in the plan require codification, enforcement, and adjustments to policy. Some will require changes in the way we organize to deliver economic development and basic quality of life services to Downtown..

3. Organizing to Implement the Plan

Overview

The Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning The Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning will be the lead agency to deliver the vision of The Queen City Hub. The implementation campaign will build on the work of the Downtown Buffalo 2002! program that produced this plan. New work related to the plan will begin following its publication with an expanded set of constituent partners to support the aggressive management of the detailed work plan. An implementation council will continue to sharpen the vision and action plan for Downtown as it moves priority projects forward and creates new policy. The revised implementation campaign will employ governmental reforms and targeted incentive programs, increased private and not-for-profit sector collaboration and shared risk taking, and continued public accountability.

A web-based and paper=based survey on the April, 2002 draft of the Queen City Hub plan identified strong (80%) respondent support for the vision decription and a substantial emphasis on Waterfront and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus as opportunities for strategic investmnent.

The work plan for the implementation campaign in Volume II of The Queen City Hub focuses on specific measurable actions in each of nine theme areas, four of which focus on developing the primary functions or activities in Downtown and five others that codify the principles we should follow to promote the primary functions. In all cases, the work tasks are identified according to who needs to participate to make the action successful. Goals for the work program behind each activity and principle are briefly summarized below. The plan associated with each goal area addresses the context of the topic, its current status, key strategies, and action items in the short, intermediate, and long term.