Community
Re-Designing the EastSide ~ planners meet the grass
roots
Design Coalition sponsored another EastSide
Citizen's Forum in July, 2000. The main topic this
time was the proposed High Speed Rail line that may extend the
length of the Eastside, profoundly affecting neighborhoods.
The Eastside of Madison, Wisconsin has been
experiencing a flurry of city-making that will affect its character
for at least the next 50 years. In the last two years we saw:
- the creation of an East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council
(EINPC) representing some 19 neighborhoods
- ongoing planning for the Yahara River Parkway, with citizen
design charettes [intensive design sessions]
- planning for the reconstruction of East Washington Avenue
, a busy Federal highway that bisects Madison's isthmus and profoundly
affects the livability of the city's oldest neighborhoods
- BUILD Project (Better Urban Infill Land
Development) design charettes (intensive participatory
sessions with planners & citizens) for the East Washington
Avenue and Williamson Street business districts
- formation of the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara (SASY)
Neighborhood Association
In 1999,
Design Coalition sponsored an all-eastside citizens 'community
planning' forum to help Eastsiders to absorb the barrage of new
planning information, and provide an opportunity for consensus-building.
Our staffers were also involved as participants in many of the
citizen input sessions.
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