[Summit] SNA Updates May 31

[Jonathan Howard]

For the full story on these and other Summit stories, please go to our 
blog: http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/


<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=104>Mayor promises public planning for 
city, neighborhoods

Last night, Mayor Cicilline promised to conduct the process of creating 
neighborhood plans, a revised citywide Comprehensive Plan and, ultimately, 
revised Zoning Ordinance by engaging the public in a process of discussion, 
priority-setting and planning that will occupy at least the next year.

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=90>North Main as an Urban Lab
Tomrrow, on June 1st, the 
<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/www.cnuxiv.org>Congress for the New 
Urbanism, a development and planning conference, will visit North Main to 
explore and address its development and growth. Public participation is 
welcomed, and is free with RSVP. The Congress will use Providence as an 
urban laboratory to examine specific design and development challenges 
present in many older American cities. Labs will begin with a presentation 
of the design challenge, followed by a site visit and ending with a group 
problem-solving session. Participants will interact with national and local 
practitioners

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=103>SNA North Main Group writes its 
shopping list
Business incubators, green space and mixed-use residential development got 
top the priority from membets of SNA’s North Main Street Group last week at 
its third “Sandwich Hut Summit” on May 25 We zeroed in on what North Main 
should look like and what specific projects would do the most to bring that 
future about..

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=99>Takin’ it to the streets
Traffic seems to heat up with the weather. Unlike the weather, we can do 
something about dangerous traffic situations in our neighborhood. First 
step: identify traffic hot spots. Use the “comment” feature on Allan Tear’s 
blog entry to submit your entries for Summit’s most dangerous places.


<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=97>More mapping fun!

RI’s beaches are one of the few reasons to bail out of Summit in the 
summer. Check out the links for maps to our state’s best beaches.

  <http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=96>Neighborhood Crime Mapping and 
Statistics”
The Providence Plan’s Map of the Month uses animation to reveal how crime 
patterns change over time
 and how they stay the same.
<http://provplan.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_135_A_PageName_E_fom52006>Link 
to ProvPlan Map of the Month.

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=95>Indian Restaurant Not Just Snacks 
gets Phoenix “Thumbs Up”
The Providence Phoenix recently did a full review of local Summit 
restaurant Not Just Snacks. Read their rave review 
<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/Providence%20Phoenix%20NJS%20review>here.

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=92>SNA Yard sale beats the weather
Hundreds of neighbors and visitors purchased almost $2,000 worth of donated 
goods at Summit Neighborhood Association’s Annual Yard Saturday, May 20, a 
week later than originally scheduled due to the torrential rains of the 
last week.
and stake-holders to challenge assumptions, provoke new thinking and 
develop action plans to be executed post-Congress.

<http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=89>New Street Trees at CVS
Landscapers for CVS showed up and installed 4 new street trees, 2 on Hope 
and 2 on Lauriston in mid-May. These new trees were in response to SNA 
protests to the removal of the mature street tree that was in front of the 
CVS sign.


Jonathan Howard
President, Summit Neighborhood Association
401 331 2272
jhoward at sna.providence.ri.us 
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