On Monday, May 4 the HVP will make a presentation to the Healdsburg City Council. The purpose of the presentation is to outline for the City the proposed Project, and to request the Council to direct City staff to pursue a dialogue with the HVP Team to explore next steps.
Please join us at the City Council chambers at 6:00 p.m. to learn more about the Project. The outcome of the meeting will be posted here as soon as it is known!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Welcome!
The Healdsburg Visioning Project (HVP) is a concentrated urban design effort that will span a number of months and seeks to develop a comprehensive, citizen informed vision for possible futures of the built environment in Healdsburg.
Conceived and initiated by a diverse group of Healdsburg residents and local design professionals, the HVP offers a means to effectively engage the public in dialogues about land use and development in Healdsburg. The HVP seeks to bring the community further into the planning process in a hands-on, participatory manner, to go beyond the usual participants, to enable the community to express their concerns and present their ideas, and to synthesize urban design responses that reflect those ideas and integrate them into City codes and policies.
In short, we seek a numan approach to making cities: rich dialogue, vision, forethought and consensus based on opportunity rather than reaction.
Building on current visions held by a wide array of stakeholders, supported by professional urban designers charged with synthesizing comprehensive and practical results, and facilitated in the spirit of past successful collaborative design efforts in Healdsburg, the HVP will generate a series of templates that will guide future development. This will ensure that necessary growth does not result in the loss or degradation of critical aspects of Healdsburg's character, vitality and quality of life.
This blog will be a place to track progress of the Project and to learn about the opportunities to get involved and join in as we Imagine Healdsburg!
Conceived and initiated by a diverse group of Healdsburg residents and local design professionals, the HVP offers a means to effectively engage the public in dialogues about land use and development in Healdsburg. The HVP seeks to bring the community further into the planning process in a hands-on, participatory manner, to go beyond the usual participants, to enable the community to express their concerns and present their ideas, and to synthesize urban design responses that reflect those ideas and integrate them into City codes and policies.
In short, we seek a numan approach to making cities: rich dialogue, vision, forethought and consensus based on opportunity rather than reaction.
Building on current visions held by a wide array of stakeholders, supported by professional urban designers charged with synthesizing comprehensive and practical results, and facilitated in the spirit of past successful collaborative design efforts in Healdsburg, the HVP will generate a series of templates that will guide future development. This will ensure that necessary growth does not result in the loss or degradation of critical aspects of Healdsburg's character, vitality and quality of life.
This blog will be a place to track progress of the Project and to learn about the opportunities to get involved and join in as we Imagine Healdsburg!
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