Personally, I do not feel safe biking on these sorts of roads, nor would I want my children to do so. Cars are not used to looking for bikes, and even when they do, their frustration at having to wait behind a biker often leads them to drive too close to the cyclist. I no longer bike on Floyd Street because of these sorts of "shared" spaces.

The lack of a plan for Washington St. (besides signage) is a complete disgrace. This lower socioeconomic area of town is constantly ignored by the city. Investment in this corridor could make it easy to walk or bike from Porterdale to Covington. Instead, we invest in the wealthy side of town and leave Washington St. for the others. This is disheartening.

If we are going to explore additional density with homes with taller elevations and shorter setbacks, we also need to shift a lighting design that will not shine into windows at night. A downward lighting pattern would be more appropriate and color temperature should be considered.

I would again emphasize that in this instance the plan document seems to highlight data related with lower income demographics while ignoring data about high income demographics. A very small portion of home owners are cost burdened and as stated previously in the plan Covington is a net importer of jobs and home values are up substantially since 2020. Combined this data suggests that there is more demand for Class A housing. A more appropriate suggestion would be to leverage the mixed use zoning and by-right accessory dwelling unit ordinances to encourage development of Class-A and estate like housing with carriage houses or other ADUs to serve both the growing upper income community and the lower income community in tandem. Incoming employers like Rivian, Archer, Amazon and Meta all pay high incomes and will require class-A housing for their employees. Affordability and the missing middle can best be served by ADUs or mixed uses.

Highlighting the bottom bracket of income without doing the same for the upper will not accurately direct future leaders to serve the community at large. Majority of existing retails seeks to serve lower income tastes but fails to acknowledge average income in locations walkable to the square. Census tracts including areas such as historic covington, east haven, and clarks grove. For instance within, BG2 tract 1004 of 30014 42% of households earn over $100,000 and 17% over $200,000. Within BG3 tract 1003.02 37% of households earn over $100,000 and 11% over $200,000. Overlapping but not completely with the study area BG1 Tract 1003.02 has a massive 21% of households earning over $200,000.

Without mentioning the large populations of extremely high earning households in the city of covington an economic spotlight is inaccurate. With high income households making up a large portion of national consumer spending, targeting these households is most important for fighting against retail leakage.

Add more bike racks downtown.