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Planning: from platitudes to practice. How do we indentify and implement all the good recommendations and solutions made to date by experts
Mark
Planning - Plattitudes to Practice
How do we implement the recommendations and solutions already made?
Mark Boscariol
List of Plans and studies that sit on shelves collecting dust
Commissioned by city
1. City Center Revitalization Task force recommendations - List of 173 recommendations
2. Glengarry Marentette Community improvement plan
3. Sustainable Downtown Community Improvement Plan
4. Bellmio Physical Site visit Report
5. International Downtown Association Panel Report
6. Healthy People, Healthy places - Smart choices for Windsor-Essex County
External Reports and resources
1. Brookings institute - Revitalizing weak market Cities (and other reports)
2. EPA - Active Aging Community strategies Website
3. International Downtown Association
4. Mainstreet.org
5. Gluespace.org
6. PPS.org (project for public spaces)
7.Detroit Eastern Market's plan to convert city space to agricultural and localize their economy
Recommendations by Group
1. Create a source to locate a master list of all these recommendations
2. Keep Gov't out as much as possible (with the exception of Community Improvement Plans)
3. Invite community organizations to sign up to the different recommendations to "own" and work on
4. Separate list to ones adopted by city politicians vs. ones that are more controversial and need work on
5. Hold city politicians accountable when they interfere with a groups attempt to implement a recommendation already adopted by council
6. Prevent politicians from conducting any more studies unless budget exists to implement recommendations
7. Get city council to allocate budget dollars towards
8. Have city designate and name officials responsible and accountable for getting progress on city controlled recommendations.
