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[FWD: [NeighborhoodsAdvocacy] Land Use Subcommittee]

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Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:40:32 -0500

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[NeighborhoodsAdvocacy] Land Use Subcommittee

Date :
Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:14:55 -0000


The subcommittee met on 1/29/03 at the Clifton Center. Following is
the summary of this meeting prepared by Theresa Stanley, Chair. The
next meeting of this group will be on Monday, February 17th, at the
Presbyterian Community Center, 701 Hancock Street (1 block south of
Broadway) in the Chapel.
Although LCON is taking the lead in this effect we want to ensure
broad participation and involvement. Individuals and organizational
representatives are welcome.
John Baker, Clifton Community Council

Land Use Subcommittee
Of the Advocacy Committee, January 29, 2003

What we want this subcommittee to do and/or be for us and our
neighborhoods. Answers included:
Inclusion in the planning and zoning process, with a tilt
towards neighborhoods and neighborhood plans.

The need for sustainability in neighborhood plans.

Inclusion of smart growth development practices. Smart Growth
practices and processes need a voice, a vision, and momentum.
The need to be educated/experienced in the zoning process.

Why is there no neighborhood advocate on the Commission?
Neighborhoods are not respected in the process. We need to
unite, support and advocate for each other, and work on reforms to
the process.

Install APA Code of Ethics. Be a watchdog for process changes
and rules. Be an advocate for neighborhood plan enforcement. We
need a neighborhood advocate on the Commission.

Make all neighborhood/small area plans have teeth.
Each Council Person should have regular meetings at which
developers come before the community with their proposal for review
and comment. Need to protect our neighborhoods and need to protect
local landmarks. Neighborhood plans should have clout. Part of the
approval process should include comments from the neighborhood;
possibly within a point system.

Additional notes
How is due process implemented throughout the process? What
are the rules? We need a neighborhood advocate on the Planning
Commission. The Metro Council does not seem to know what 2020 or the
Land Development Code says.

We need to be more proactive and do visioning instead of
reacting. Neighborhood Plans should include physical, social,
economic and cultural impacts. Experts in metro government should be
available to neighborhoods.


Suggestions for Change
All reviewing agencies should have a neighborhood contact
person on their check-off list.

Each Council person should have a process to set up meetings
with the developer and neighborhood representatives early on in the
process; and an incentive should be available to make it happen.
Experts in government (engineers, architects, etc.) should be
available to neighborhoods.

There should be a mini-hearing at the neighborhood level
before the Planning Commission's public hearing, to try to resolve
conflicts. There should be a moratorium on development until
adequate and legal processes are in place.