GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Develop a storefront improvement program. Recruit a credit union or minority-owned bank. Facilitate home repairs and improvements.
And ensure that future development does not displace residents.
Those are some of the recommendations laid out in the South Division Corridor Plan, a 170-page document that lays out a vision for future growth along a 3 mile stretch of Division Avenue between Wealthy and 28th streets. Last week, the Grand Rapids Planning Commission held a public hearing on the plan and sent it to the city commission for review.
Read more at: “Plan lays out new vision for aging Grand Rapids corridor“
Envision Comanche, led by Camiros, is a Master Plan project
to transform Comanche Park, a Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa (THA)
property, into a mixed-use, mixed-income community while ensuring a strict
one-for-one replacement of all existing apartments. Envision Comanche is not
just a plan but a guide for community growth, action and empowerment. The plan
not only seeks to provide better housing, but to also create additional
education, health and training opportunities and ensure improved transportation
and park spaces to the residents of Comanche Park, and its neighbors.
The Envision Comanche planning team participated in the
annual summer block party to receive direct feedback from residents regarding
three draft site plan diagrams of what a transformed Comanche Park could look
like. The various elements of the site diagrams which include a range of
housing types and age-separated parks for example were informed by community
feedback received at previous planning meetings, discussions, and events. Residents
were also given the opportunity to create their own site plan using monopoly
pieces to represent different building types.
Watch the news clip from KTUL-ABC 8 highlighting the event.
The Buffalo Green Code was the co-winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award, presented at a ceremony for the 27th Annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Louisville, KY on Saturday, June 15, 2019.
Camiros worked with the City of Buffalo to craft a place-based Future Land Use plan to highlight desired land uses and form development patterns within each placemaking district. These districts were later translated into form-based zoning districts that were the basis for the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), later branded as the Buffalo Green Code. The Green Code emphasizes physical form rather than the separation of uses as its basic organizing principle. This highly graphic ordinance contains a series of illustrations that show the intended development outcomes within each of the form-based zones while maintaining established character and integrating principals of sustainability both on-site and at the neighborhood scale.
Read more at: “Buffalo Green Code receives national award”
More information on the Buffalo Green Code can be found on the City of Buffalo’s website: “Using the Unified Development Ordinance”
An editorial from the Kendall County Newsletter highlights
the Oswego Comprehensive Plan that Camiros developed and was later adopted by
the Village in 1989. The article is a retrospective on the land use
recommendations presented in the plan that were both prophetic and instrumental
in the village’s population growth. The editor notes how “on the mark” and “how
closely the village officials have followed [the plan’s] general land use
recommendations,” in the subsequent decades following the plan’s adoption. The
comprehensive plan called for the development of a riverfront park which today
is one of the park district’s most frequented attractions and the site for
popular community festivals.
Read More: “30 year-old Oswego plan proved mostly on the mark”
The City of Huntington and the HuntingtonWV Housing Authority (HWVHA) recently received a Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study how to provide better housing, improved schools and youth programs, additional educational opportunities, better transportation, and access to jobs to the residents of the Fairfield community. Camiros is serving as the planning lead to create a plan that will help build off of the America’s Best Communities Initiative and other local efforts to help make the Fairfield Neighborhood a better place to live.
For more information checkout www.fairfieldinnovation.com/
