CORE BaNC (Core Barrio and Neighborhood Coalition) hosted a public forum on the Infill Incentive District Overlay at the Ward 6 office on May 28th. Adam Smith crafted a great response to a set of questions given before hand. The IID has only had 10 projects as of May 2013. Some are enormous and a majority are more inconsequential. A resonating factor that has neighborhoods wanting to opt their boundaries out of the district focuses on perceived failures in transitioning from large projects to a sensitive neighborhood context. If there is one factor that will make or break the IID concept, it is these transitions. (more…)
Archive for May, 2013
Transitions and Synergy
Posted in Ideas, Infill on May 30, 2013| 1 Comment »
Smarter Smart Growth
Posted in Infill on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“Projects are…dashing existing neighborhood character under the banners of smart growth or transit oriented development…they fail in many of the finer points of smart growth… UrbDeZine…read more in 10 Rules for Smarter Smart Growth link by J. Hall