…to purely residential development. The boxed material on the left is from the Troy Master Plan. Implementation will involve developing a form-based optional overlay zone for each node, seeking to encourage mixed-use development. Euclidean, hierarchical…
…AIM Development mutually agreed upon a development team that understood the importance of facilitating a communications plan or strategy to ensure the immediate and long-term success of the master plan. The necessity for AIM Development…
…down Isham Road in Blue Back Square. Walking through Blue Back Center it all seems to fit together nicely. The development avoids the bland sameness you too often see in large new developments, while at…
…existing developed area of the town. The proposed development consists primarily of cul-de-sac subdivisions and strip commercial development. The town is split politically between those who want to slow or stop growth and those who…
…build out population. So we turned this area into arts and design district. We started to do a series of public-private partnerships for development of a Main Street arts and design district. For our first…
…car lots, fry pits, and endless clutter that has been termed “the geography of nowhere.” The problem is not development, per se; rather the problem is the patterns of development. Successful communities pay attention to…
…constraints that formed the compact urban development of our older communities. This freedom has allowed us to expand across the landscape in a sprawling mass of subdivisions, strip malls, and industrial parks. Not everyone agrees…
…Hudson River, Hoboken is, in essence, a thin strip of land wedged between a river and a tidal marshland. More than two-thirds of the city’s land area — home to 53% of its residents —…
…a well-beaten path” Ben Ryan has recently joined PlannersWeb as a student intern. He is a senior at the University of Vermont, studying Community and International Development, which includes topics ranging from traditional economic development…
…a new business or develop a building out on the strip than in the town center. An obstacle to downtown revitalization is simply an incentive for development to take place somewhere else. Your community’s comprehensive…
…Minicozzi who has done a series of studies on “The Smart Math of Mixed-Use Development.”[ref]Joseph Minicozzi, “The Smart Math of Mixed-Use Development” (Downtown Idea Exchange, March 2013).[/ref] For example, in an analysis of Asheville, North…
…that the national media has been squawking about didn’t drop out of the sky in 2008. Economic Development models of “winning” while our neighbors suffer? … This isn’t working. So many of our community policies,…
…the city — such as along commercial corridors. The purpose of the Community Design Standards is to: A. Ensure that new development enhances the character and livability of Portland’s neighborhoods; B. Ensure that increased density…
