The East Covell Corridor Plan
What is about to happen:
There are FOUR current housing proposals on our periphery, all designed separately by individual developers with no coordination or master planning.
Low density sprawl: Primarily single family homes
Designed to be accessed Cars, and laid out in such a way that effective mass transit will NEVER be an option.
A “food desert” on the Mace curve: All housing, no commercial zoning, no neighborhood shoping, grocers, pubs or cafes.
Housing which will NOT be affordable by our local workforce
WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!
Lets take time to plan!
What would this part of our town look like if we planned it deliberately?
What would we build if we were paying attention to the needs of our existing citizens, our local workforce, and our economy?
What would this housing look like if we decided to take the climate crisis seriously and make sustainability a priority?
We have an opportunity to do something much better!
Instead of assuming everyone will get to their homes by automobile, lets deliberately plan for a transit line through these properties that connect them to each other, to local shopping, to downtown and to campus.
Lets have the density of the housing along this corridor be dense enough to make that transit line make sense.
lets create a corridor of medium density housing mixed in with commercial shopping much like you would find in any of the great cities: Paris, Barcelona, or Rome.
It would be foolish to build more sprawling single family homes that will inevitably be too expensive for young families and our local workforce.
Lets build medium density condos, townhomes and apartments that our workforce can actually afford, and create housing for local workers who instead of driving into town every day, can live here, and take this transit line, or bike to work instead
We are developing a comprehensive plan for peripheral growth, and are asking the City Council and the developers to pause all advancement of their development proposals until at least a high-level coordinated master planning for this corridor can be assembled.
The mace curve, once developed will represent an 18% expansion of our city. Does it make sense to pursue that large of a city expansion with zero master planning?
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