The Downtown Revitalization Committee is one small step closer to coming back to life following years of stagnation.

Last March, the planning commission voted unanimously to make the revitalization committee an ad-hoc, seven member advisory group under the wing of the commission. Since then, there have been no meetings or forward movement.

However, following prompting by Mayor Stephanie Scott, the commission recently appointed commission member Heather Lende to take on the issue.

The original…