... one of a series of planning charrettes being conducted by the Burns Square Property Owners Association. We encourage you to attend if you have suggestions for improving the Burns Square community and its pedestrian experience. We are looking for ideas that will give us our own sense of place and enhance the qualities we already love about the area.
We have invited the Burns Square neighborhood, which includes all the business owners, tenants, merchants, employees and anyone who is in the Burns Square area on a fairly regular basis to attend a workshop from 8:30am to 10am November 4th, Friday morning. Since you work or live in the area we know you have incredible knowledge about the things that work, the things that do not and how things could be improved. We want to know what those things are!
We have invited the surrounding neighborhoods, and any neighbor that travels through or visits Burns Square. We highly encouraged our neighbors to participate in the workshop from 4pm to 6pm November 4th, Friday afternoon. How can we improve our area for you?
The charrettes will be held in the Garden Building on the second floor located at the corner of Laurel Street and Pineapple Avenue. If you would like to attend and have not been formally invited, we apologize and hope you participate in one way or another. Please let us know if you are interested in attending because space is limited but we will accomodate everyeone who has something to give. If you have an idea we want to hear about it.
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11 comments:
I am a member of the Main Street Merchants Association and a member of the Downtown Partnership and would like to attend some of the workshops to see how the charrette process works, is there a workshop that I may watch this process?
I am unable to attend from my neighborhood but I hope you post your recommendations for the area on your blog so people can see what you are doing. Very good idea and hope all goes smoothly.
Is it possible to get garbage cans around the area. They really should be on every block. Hopefully you can come up with a look that works for the historic feel of the area.
The Oak trees along South Orange are wonderful. I would encourage more tree canopy along Orange Avenue.
Burns Court is a great neighborhood. You can preserve the integrity of Burns Court by not building structures over 2-3 stories high.
Dear 11:04:
The Burns Court neighborhood currently has only one story homes. They are a historic neighborhood. The owners (14 in all on Burns Court) seem to be very happy with preserving the ambiance the Burns Structures give the area. Therefor I am not sure they would consider going up 2 or 3 stories as preserving the integrity but we will consider your suggestion.
I like the sidewalks in front of Laughlin Luxury Lifestyles and suggest the entire district do that type of pavers or something close. It is easier on your eyes and fits the style of the area.
I did not see the invitation until yesterday. I would have enjoyed attending because I have really enjoyed the positive things happening in your area. I commend your group for looking on ways to keep the charm and ways of improving it also. I would also recommend you installing brick roads and sidewalks or something like that. Also lighting is very important so people can walk safely in the evenings. I would also suggest growing some type of vines on the fences. Maybe a fence could also be put around the old dry cleaners building at the end of Pineapple and vines also could grow on that. You need to also find more parking or make more parking spaces because this is the most frustrating thing for everyone and I certainly do not visit the area as much as I would like because of this. Overall I love this area and I wish you all good luck and thank you.
When are the property owners going to release their report and who was involved in the charrette?
There are many layers to creating a vision and the charrette was just one part of our planning process. We hope to present some of our initial thoughts to the public in the next couple of months.
We invited many to participate and feel overall we had a very good turn out from the governments, the public and utilities. We encourage people to continue to give us input now and forever because the visioning process is always evolving.
What came out of the weekend about the arcades?
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