Come out Wed 22nd; Start the collaboration
Mark Solomon’s Town Crier column (DNews 3/8) and the letter to the Editor by Michael Kyte (below), each suggest a more community-based approach to development is needed.
Come out, Wed, March 22, 7:30 PM, City Hall, to be part of the start of that conversation. This is not a NewCities meeting which will end in a glossy report, this is a request before a body that can act, to start moving Moscow toward a mixed-use Smart Growth development model.
What if the Planning and Zoning Commission were to turn down the request to rezone 77 acres of land in southeast Moscow to motor business?
What if the developer were to then go back to the drawing board and develop a truly creative combination of residential, commercial, and open space uses for the 77 acres?
What if the Thompson family, the Bennetts, and Tidyman’s would agree to work with the community to develop a master plan for another core for our city, an expanded eastside community/marketplace?
What if the Planning and Zoning Commission was to hold a community design workshop that would include the land owners, the community, and experts from the university to create some truly innovative alternatives for using this new eastside core area?
What if we could develop some new private-public partnerships that could finance such a master development plan?
Easy? No? Possible? One down, four to go.
Michael Kyte, Moscow