The November NWCA meeting is canceled, but we encourage people to attend the Zone In public hearings at City Hall. This is our last chance to weigh in on the type of neighborhood we would like to see over the next 30 or 40 years (or longer). Do you want mixed use? How do you feel about car washes?
There will be a public hearing November 5 from 5-7PM in City Council Chambers (90 W. Broad St.) to discuss public feedback, and another hearing November 19 from 5-8PM at City Council Chambers..
Here’s a message from Monica Tuttle, Zoning and Graphics Chair:
Zone In has conveyed to City Council that there wasn't that much public feedback because people are very supportive of the changes. This is our opportunity to share concerns about how difficult it was to engage in the public feedback process.
It is also the opportunity to talk about conserving our neighborhoods (keeping mixed-use out of residential areas to allow a network of interconnected uses along our "corridor"), incorporating green space and increasing trees (and not taking steps that will increase surface water and drainage issues), and maintaining reasonable setbacks so that there is room to put trees along streets and new buildings are not shoved right up against the edge of a property line.
If Zone In does not describe the city as we hope it to be in the coming years, this is our last chance to weigh in before the proposed language is presented to City Council. Contact NWCAZoning@gmail.com or reach out to me directly with additional questions/concerns.
