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Bon Secours puts the East End Charrette online
Bon Secours has launched a blog for the upcoming East End Transformation Charrette. So far: What is a Charrette? and A Welcome from Mayor Jones. They’ve also set up a companion Facebook page for the blog and suggest using #eevric as a twitter tag for the process.
The East End Transformation Charrette will focus on the 25th Street and Nine Mile Road corridors, previosuly declared by Mayor Jones to be “a top priority for redevelopment and revitalization”. The process will be facilitated by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, “a major leader in the practice and direction of urban planning”.
From the Mayor’s April press release:
“The goal is the development of a vision to guide transformative social, educational, and physical changes within the East End Planning District,” said Mayor Jones. “This is an important undertaking that can lead to revitalized housing as well as increased educational and economic opportunities.”
The public engagement of East End community members, small business owners, public housing residents, and other stakeholders is expected to provide information for the completion of grant applications for two key federal initiatives – the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative and the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. Successful applications would result in multi-million-dollar support for city initiatives for neighborhood enhancement along and near 25th Street and the Nine Mile Road corridor.
The process kicks off on Wednesday, June 2 with an Opening Presentation from 5–6:30PM at the Robinson Theater. Other key moments in the schedule include the Studio Open House from 6–8PM at the Family Resource Center on Thursday, June 3, and the Closing Presentation from 5–6:30PM on Monday, June 7, at the Robinson Theater.
wow, talk about pomposity…”Charette”. Why not call it a planning meeting, or even a civic roundtable like everyone else. But no, they had to pull out their thesaurus and go with Charette, thereby loosing half their intended audience while trying to sound intelligent.
Well I see your Charette and raise you a “Diet of Worms”
I don’t understand the hostility to neighborhood involvement in determining the direction of the neighborhood. Would you prefer that the area be developed without resident input?
it should be evident that the hostility is to the use of jargon, not the process. No one without an advance degree in urban planning knows what a freaking charette is.
I don’t have an advanced planning degree but I know what a charette is. And I had before I attended the downtown masterplan and Tree Hill Farm ones. It’s not THAT uncommon of a word.
How many constituents of our neighborhood have a clue what it is?
you’re right Gordie…I have a few advanced degrees and frankly, I had to google it a few years back when all of this started.
Did anyone else get the advertorial piece in the mail today, wrapped up with the typical grocery junk mail? It was called Pre-Charrette Process and with East End as if it was a newspaper name. Some good info. However, it listed http://www.eastenddivision.org as the website, which doesn’t seem to be working.
The URL is http://www.eastendvision.org/
Check out at “The Focus of the Charrette” at http://www.eastendvision.org/our-focus.html – it talks about St.John’s, Libby Hill, Fulton, and Jefferson Mews, but no real mention of the actual area of the charrette. Not necessarily heartening.
They’ve also got a link to a PDF of the paper that BOZ refers to at http://www.eastendvision.org/assets/east_end_charrette/EastEnd0510.pdf.
Sorry, apparently I confuse this neighborhood’s vision with division. Thanks for the correction.