[Summit] Providence Tomorrow
Greg Gerritt
gerritt at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 26 00:03:59 UTC 2007
It is a Walgreens, and we shall continue to see sprawl until we actually do
something about it. greg gerrritt
on 1/25/07 5:13 PM, Leveille, Brian at bleveille at verisign.com wrote:
> It looks like the Sears Automotive building on N. Main is coming down, and a
> Walgreens is rumored to be going up in it¹s place.
>
> http://www.artinruins.com/arch/rip/searsauto/#
> <http://www.artinruins.com/arch/rip/searsauto/>
>
> Does everyone think we¹ll continue to see sprawl, rather than smart growth?
>
> http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/contrast/contr3.asp
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Brian Leveille
>
> MSS Business Systems Analyst
>
> W: 401.456.1826 F: 401.456.0599
>
> bleveille at verisign.com
>
> __________________________________
> VeriSign
> Where it all comes together
>
>
>
> From: summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us
> [mailto:summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us] On Behalf Of Jonathan Howard
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:43 AM
> To: Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Subject: [Summit] Providence Tomorrow
>
> The Dept. of Planning and Development begins its use of "charrettes" to get
> community input on citywide growth, development goals and target areas today.
>
> This is the Providence Tomorrow project we've discussed and anticipated for a
> long time. The various charrettes take place during the day and evening at 400
> Westminster Street - the corner of Empire and Westminster down near Blue
> Cross. For retro-directionals, that's the old Harris Fur building across from
> where the original Lupos used to be. There is an article in the ProJo's Metro
> section this morning with details. I attach the schedule provided by DPD.
>
> The Providence Tomorrow Web page:
> http://www.providenceplanning.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_4_A_
> PageName_E_ProvTomorComprPlanning
>
>
> <http://www.providenceplanning.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_4_A
> _PageName_E_ProvTomorComprPlanning> DPD also says:
> Parking will be validated for Charrette events !
> At the Charrette, pick up a parking slip to present to the parking attendant
> at the Weybossett Street lot (across from the URI Shepard Building)
> to recieve free parking for all Providence Tomorrow Charrette events.
> Let me comment that while SNA and other neighborhood associations pushed very
> hard for public engagement in city planning, a campaign that eventually led to
> the Providence Tomorrow process, we were not consulted on the design,
> location, timing or content of these sessions.
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Howard
> President, Summit Neighborhood Association
> 401 331 2272
> jhoward at sna.providence.ri.us
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Summit mailing list
> Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us
> SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sna.providence.ri.us/pipermail/summit_sna.providence.ri.us/attachments/20070125/ca8da4dc/attachment.htm>
More information about the Summit
mailing list