All Ideas

Painting Electrical Boxes

Idea:

Hire artists to paint grey and beige electrical boxes at curbside with colorful, amazing images. Materials needed: paint, drop cloths. Hold an exhibit with ideas, choose the best, pay artists for time and materials. Maybe make the boxes direct visitors to Lowell sites.
Benefit:

Beautification. Beautify our cityscape. Add visual interest, plus it’s a way for artists to show their work in a nontraditional setting. We could hold a tour of the boxes when the project is completed. Makes Lowell look like the artistic place it is.
Location:

Citywide.

Bicycles for All – Help Everyone Find a Bike & Mark a Route

Idea:

Find a good route for bicyclists in a park or on a bike path. Use signs to mark the route and publicize. Perhaps at a special event or in a pilot program, work with the City and Veoride to offer city bicycles on that bike path. This may possibly include working with Veoride to pilot [Read more…]

Benefit:

Exercise for youth. This idea will make city bikes more accessible to more people who might not have a debit or credit card. This would benefit young people and others with limited resources. This would also bring attention to the need for more bicycle paths.
Location:

Citywide.

Did-You-Know Signs About Lowell

Idea:

Create a Did You Know sign campaign to show how zoning, tax, and parking regulations and laws shape the design of Lowell. For example – Did You Know smaller buildings with a mixture of uses in Cupples Square create more tax revenue per acre than big box stores on the edge of Lowell? Or – [Read more…]

Benefit:

Getting people to understand how land use policy affects development could start a dialogue to update our zoning laws and parking regulations for a better Lowell.
Location:

Citywide.