Sustainable Neighborhoods

Targeted areas within the City serve as opportunities to reinvest and redevelop to provide housing, strengthen neighborhoods, enhance the downtown business and arts communities, and improve public facilities.

Priorities from Public Feedback

• Encourage sustainable, walkable, mixed-use communities
• Build the necessary mix of market and affordable housing units
• Improve downtown utility service
• Explore more sustainable energy supply and storm water management
• Protect larger industrial community partners
• Restore historic buildings wherever possible
• Save and/or build on current artistic and cultural facilities within neighborhoods and downtown where possible, including support for churches and other religious communities
• Relocate if necessary important cultural resources to protected areas, memorialize their original location where appropriate
• Appropriately locate public/shared facilities

What makes a sustainable neighborhood?

North River Area

Time Check and Ellis Harbor Neighborhoods

• Reinstill a sense of neighborhood pride by celebrating community assets and
  identity.
• Build vibrant public spaces that welcome neighborhood visitors and promote interaction for neighborhood residents.
• Provide transportation options by connecting to city-wide walking, biking, and transit routes.
• Leverage aesthetic and ecological value of open spaces by providing connections to the neighborhood.

Downtown Area

Downtown and Taylor Area

• Promote compact and walkable pedestrian environments that foster interaction and health
• Diversify commercial profile with a mixture of office, shopping, eating, and entertainment.
• Provide for a variety of transportation options including walking, biking, and public transit.
• Provide housing options in the downtown area to create 24/7 activity.
• Use existing infrastructure and avoid sprawl by supporting development in existing urban centers.

 

South River Area

Czech Village, Sinclair, New Bohemia and Oak Hill Jackson Neighborhoods

• Foster a strong “sense of place” by celebrating the unique neighborhood identity.
• Build vibrant public spaces that welcome neighborhood visitors and promote interaction for neighborhood residents.
• Balance nature and development by adapting development to the natural topographic and hydrologic conditions.
• Create vibrant communities by promoting diverse land use, and mixed-use development.

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