COEUR d'ALENE - Strategy wise, it's mostly already there, just change the year.

The education corridor infrastructure project and McEuen Field are top priorities for Lake City Development Corp. in fiscal year 2012, just as they had been the year before.

Public space, education, job creation, affordable housing, communication and public parking are still top goals for the agency next year.

So not much has changed.

"We've fine tuned some things," said Tony Berns, LCDC executive director. "Our major focus is still the same."

The urban renewal agency updated its strategy goals during a workshop Wednesday morning at the Kroc Community Center. The two bigger projects remain the downtown park's possible redesign, for which the agency has estimated it could have $11.7 million in future projects inside the district in which the park sits, and the infrastructure development project through the corridor near the Fort Grounds neighborhood and North Idaho College.

That project could be set to go out to bid in May, and construction could be ready by June.

"I think our priorities are aligned," said Wendy Gabriel, city administrator, on keeping the McEuen Field project high on the to-do list, "and that's to get the park built."

The session was a workshop, and not a meeting where formal action is taken other than to prioritize long-term and next-year planning.

The board added it shouldn't lose sight of other priorities with the bigger items grabbing the attention. Keeping options open for a parking structure near the Juvenile Justice building and affordable housing in Midtown shouldn't be overlooked, it said.

The Idaho Housing and Finance Association has had its eyes on developing a mixed-use retail and affordable housing complex on Fourth Street. The project has been put on the back burner because of the economy. But the board said it could reintroduce those talks in the coming year with the idea of seeing whether the units could be affordable renting units in light of high demand for rentals.

"The mindset has changed and that's affected the market," said Rod Colwell, LCDC member on the shift from home ownership to renting in the last couple of years.

The agency's fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

The board also said it would be willing to entertain discussions for changing downtown building codes should the city be interested. Creating a historic district could encourage businesses to locate downtown by making it easier and more financially reasonable to alter buildings should they wish to locate there.