BROWNSVILLE, TX — “What makes this project special is how much the (Buena Vida) families participated in the idea and in the design of the project,” he said. “What we’re working on today is a direct result of their thoughts, their participation and their engagement in the process. This was not a developer-led design. This was a community-led design.”
Read more at: “New digs: HACB breaks ground on major projects”
Watch NBC-KVEO’s news story at: “New housing projects coming to Brownsville“
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.
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”
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