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<b>For the full story on these and other Summit stories, please go to our
blog:
<a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/" eudora="autourl">http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/<br><br>
</a><h3><b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=104">Mayor
promises public planning for city, neighborhoods</a></b></h3>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.
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<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=90">North Main as an
Urban Lab</a><br>
</b>Tomrrow, on June 1st, the
<a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/www.cnuxiv.org">Congress for
the New Urbanism</a>, 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<br><br>
<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=103">SNA North Main Group
writes its shopping list</a><br>
</b>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..<br><br>
<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=99">Takin’ it to the
streets</a><br>
</b>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.<br><br>
<h3><b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=97">More mapping
fun!</a></b></h3>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.<br><br>
<a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=96"><b>Neighborhood
Crime Mapping and Statistics</a></b>”<br>
The Providence Plan’s Map of the Month uses animation to reveal how crime
patterns change over time… and how they stay the same.<br>
<a href="http://provplan.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_135_A_PageName_E_fom52006">Link
to ProvPlan Map of the Month.</a> <br><br>
<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=95">Indian Restaurant Not
Just Snacks gets Phoenix “Thumbs Up”</a><br>
</b>The Providence Phoenix recently did a full review of local Summit
restaurant Not Just Snacks. Read their rave review
<a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/Providence%20Phoenix%20NJS%20review">here</a>.
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<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=92">SNA Yard sale beats
the weather</a><br>
</b>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.<br>
and stake-holders to challenge assumptions, provoke new thinking and
develop action plans to be executed post-Congress. <br><br>
<b><a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/blog/?p=89">New Street Trees at
CVS</a><br>
</b>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. <br><br>
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Jonathan Howard<br>
President, Summit Neighborhood Association<br>
401 331 2272<br>
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